The Nigerian equities market extended its recovery momentum on Monday,
with investors gaining N3.17 trillion as renewed buying interest across banking,
industrial, oil and gas, and insurance stocks propelled the benchmark index back
above the 234,000-point mark.
Last Friday, July 3, the equities market staged a strong rebound with the NGX
All-Share Index surging 2.19% to close at 229,240.34 points, pushing the year-
to-date return to +47.31% and adding N3.16 trillion to market capitalization,
which closed at N147 trillion.
Trading data from the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) on Monday July 6, showed
the NGX further strengthened Friday’s recovery as the benchmark All-Share
Index (ASI) rose by 2.15% to close at 234,178.23 points, up from 229,240.19
points recorded on Friday, while market capitalisation climbed to N150.27
trillion.
The strong recovery comes after last week’s sell-off, with bargain hunters
returning aggressively to fundamentally attractive blue-chip stocks, lifting the
market’s year-to-date return to 50.49% and restoring investor confidence.
The rally was underpinned by broad institutional buying in heavyweight
counters, including First HoldCo, Wema Bank, Aradel Holdings, Dangote
Cement, Lafarge Africa, GTCO, Access Holdings, UBA, Fidelity Bank, MTN
Nigeria, Nigerian Breweries, Oando, and NGX Group, as investors repositioned
portfolios ahead of the second-quarter earnings season.
Buying interest was broad-based across the market, with gainers
overwhelmingly outnumbering losers and all major sectoral indices closing in
positive territory.
On the losers’ table, NAHCO and Vitafoam Nigeria recorded the steepest
declines, shedding 10% each, followed by CAP, FTG Insurance and Thomas
Wyatt Nigeria.
Monday’s rally reflected renewed confidence in fundamentally strong equities,
with institutional investors returning aggressively to banking, industrial and
energy stocks following last week’s correction.
Industrial Goods emerged as the best-performing sector, advancing 4.89%,
supported by strong gains in Dangote Cement (+8.08%) and Lafarge Africa
(+7.53%).
The Oil & Gas Index followed closely with a 4.22% gain, driven largely by
Aradel Holdings’ 9.99% appreciation and gains in Oando.
The Banking Index rose 3.05% as investors accumulated First HoldCo, GTCO,
Access Holdings, UBA, Fidelity Bank, FCMB and Wema Bank, reinforcing the
sector’s leadership in the current market recovery.
Insurance and Commodity indices both advanced 2.70%, while the Consumer
Goods Index added 0.57%.
Trading activity also strengthened considerably. Total volume traded increased
18.40% to 538.64 million shares, while turnover jumped 40.18% to N38.70
billion, indicating stronger participation from institutional and high-net-worth
investors.
Zenith Bank remained the market’s most actively traded stock by both volume
and value, accounting for 89.46 million shares, or 16.61% of total volume, and
N9.77 billion, representing 25.24% of total value traded.
GTCO and Fidelity Bank followed in traded volume, while MTN Nigeria and
Aradel Holdings ranked behind Zenith Bank by value traded.
Monday’s N3.17 trillion rally reversed a significant portion of last week’s losses
and pushed the NGX All-Share Index back above the 234,000-point threshold.
The market’s year-to-date return bounced back above 50.49% reflecting.
All six tracked sectoral indices closed higher during the session, underscoring
the broad-based nature of the recovery.
Market analysts expect positive momentum to persist in the near term,
supported by continued portfolio rebalancing, attractive valuations following
recent pullbacks, and growing expectations of strong second-quarter corporate
earnings.