Adedapo Adesanya
By Adedapo Adesanya
The NASD Over-the-Counter (OTC) returned to the positive zone as a bullish price movement from FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc on Monday, November 29 lifted the bourse by 0.17 per cent.
The milk-producing company closed the first session of the week with a 1.3 per cent or N1.58 gain to quote at N121.00 per unit compared with the previous closing rate of N119.42 per unit.
This jerked up the market capitalisation of the OTC bourse by N1.02 billion to N616.44 billion from N615.42 billion and pushed the NASD Unlisted Security Index (NSI) higher by 1.23 points to wrap the session at 746.13 points compared with 744.90 points recorded at the previous session.
However, there was a price loser at the market yesterday and this was Food Concepts Plc, which lost 0.2 per cent or 9 kobo to close 81 kobo per share as against the previous 90 kobo per share.
During the trading day, the total value of stocks transacted by investors rose by 4,037.8 per cent to N2.7 million from the N65,088 recorded last Friday, while the volume of securities traded at the bourse increased by 114,309.7 per cent as 329,500 units, exchanged hands in contrast to the 288 units traded at the preceding session, with the number of deals increasing by 50.00 per cent to three deals from the previous session’s two deals.
At the close of business, Food Concepts Plc closed as the company with the highest volume of traded stock (year-to-date) with 11.4 billion units of its shares worth N14.4 billion. The second was Lighthouse Financial Service Plc with 1.1 billion units valued at N546.1 million, while the third was Geo Fluids Plc with a turnover of 1.0 billion units worth N700.1 million.
In terms of value, Food Concepts Plc was also the most traded stock with the sale of 11.4 billion units of its securities for N14.4 billion. It was followed by Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Group Plc with 456.5 million units worth N9.2 billion, and VFD Group Plc with the sale of 10.4 million units for N3.5 billion.
