August 27, 2019/InvestmentOne Report

The Nigerian equities market closed negative today as NSE-ASI lost -0.32% to close at 27,602.77.pts.

In today’s trade, market breadth index was negative with 22 losers against 13 gainers.                                                                                                                                

SEPLAT (-9.82%) led the loser’s chart while PZ (+5.93%) was the top gainer today. 

TRANSCORP (+1.94%) was the most actively traded stock with about 30million units of shares worth about N32million.

Sector Performance  

·         NSE Oil & Gas Index: Lost 5.80%, due to the declines recorded in SEPLAT (-9.82%) and TOTAL (-8.79%).

·         NSE Banking Index: Fell by 1.04%, on the back of the losses witnessed in  UNITYBNK(-4.78%), GUARANTY(-3.04%), FBNH (-1.98%), UBA (-1.67%) and STERLNBANK (-0.43%).  

·         NSE Industrial Index: Was up by 0.08%, driven by the gain in CCNN (+3.57%).

·         NSE Consumer Goods Index: Gained 0.03%, due to the buy interest recorded in NESTLE (+0.65%) and NB (+0.40%).

Market Insight 

The equities market closed down today following the losses recorded in DANGCEM, Oil & Gas and Banking. We maintain that investors should take positions in quality names with a medium to long time investment horizon as prices remain attractive at current levels.