Nigerian Stocks Rise Marginally, Sterling Bank Gains 8%

Nigerian stocks ended today’s trading on a positive as the All Share Index (ASI) rose marginally by 0.02% to close at 23,981.09.

Although Sterling Bank ended up as the highest gainer with a 8.19% rise in its share price, today wasn’t too good for banking stocks as a total of five banks (Fidelity, ETI, FBNH, UBN, and Diamond bank) ended up on the losers section.

Here is a snapshot of trading today;

ASI: 23,981.09

DEALS: 3,020

VOLUME: 169,504,504.00

VALUE: 1,518,248,412,.91

CAP: 8,247,544,525,459.43

Top 5 Gainers for the day;

STERLINGBANK opened at N1.71 and closed at N1.85 gaining N0.14(8.19%)

UNILEVER opened at N31.84 and closed at N33.43 gaining N1.59(4.99%)

MOBIL opened at N145.01 and closed at N152 gaining N6.99(4.82%)

AIICO opened at N0.85 and closed at N0.89 gaining N0.04(4.71%)

CAVERTON opened at N1.77 and closed at N1.85 gaining N0.08(4.52%)

Top 5 Losers for the day;

UACN opened at N20.89 and closed at N19.86 losing N1.03(-4.93%)

FIDELITYBK opened at N1.26 and closed at N1.20 losing N0.06(-4.76%)

ETI opened at N15.70 and closed at N15.00 losing N0.70(-4.76%)

FBNH opened at N3.92 and closed at N3.78 losing N0.14(-3.57%)

TRANSCORP opened at N1.15 and closed at N1.11 losing N0.04(-3.48%)