Trading activities in the Nigerian equities market closed the year 2018 with a -17.81% YTD loss as against a +42.30% YTD gain and -6.17% YTD loss recorded in 2017 and 2016 respectively.

Analysis of market turnover revealed that total volume traded increased by +5.92% in 2018 as against +25.49% growth recorded in 2017. Also, total value traded increased by +2.06% in 2018 as against +112.80% growth in 2017.

The market recorded 32 gainers and 109 losers in 2018 as against 65 gainers to 42 losers in 2017.

Market Snapshot


Year 2018 Year 2017 % Chg
Total Volume Traded        100,924,212,486.00           95,286,190,696.00 5.92%
Total Value Traded     1,202,323,939,740.13     1,178,106,732,742.63 2.06%
No of Deals                      1,047,303.00                          947,978.00 10.48%
No of Equities Listed 169 172 -1.74%
Gainers 32 65 -50.77%
Losers 109 42 159.52%
Unchanged 28 65 -56.92%
Volume and Value by Sector

Financial services sector trumped other sectors with a 74.22% contribution to total volume traded on the Exchange in 2018 as against 70.57% contribution recorded in 2017. Conglomerates and Consumer Goods sectors followed closely on the table.

Financial services traded 74.90 bln volumes in 2018 to lead the pack, Conglomerates and Consumer Goods sectors came in second and third with 9.82bln and 5.34 bln traded volumes respectively while the Natural resources sector traded the least volume with 144.28 mln units traded.



Top 4 Equity Transaction

Our Analysis of equity transactions by volume reveals that TRANSCORP topped the volume of equities traded as 9.41 bln units of share were traded in 2018; ZENITHBANK followed with 7.45 bln units while FCMB came third with 6.40 bln units.

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