CAL Bank leads stocks local bourse in value, volume traded
CAL Bank at the end of trading session on Tuesday emerged as the most traded stock on the bourse leading all equities in value and volume traded.
Shares of the bank accounted for 54.76% (GHS 150,094) of the total value and 51.3% (197,493) of the total volume traded.
Following CAL Bank as the next most traded stock on Wednesday was MTNGh with value and volume traded of GHS 79,013 and 83,172 respectively.
SIC, ETI and TOTAL stocks emerged the third, fourth and fifth most traded equities on the bourse on Tuesday respectively.
TOP TRADED EQUITIES
Ticker | Volume | Value (GH¢) |
CAL | 197,493 | 150,094.68 |
MTNGH | 83,172 | 79,013.40 |
SIC | 79,032 | 25,290.24 |
ETI | 20,124 | 2,617.36 |
TOTAL | 3,009 | 12,276.72 |
Cumulatively, a total of 384,590 shares valued at GHS 274,073.43 was traded on the day.
Compared with the previous GSE trading day (August 15), Tuesday’s data shows a196.21% increase in volume traded and a 54.16% decrease in trade turnover.
Meanwhile, the benchmark GSE Composite index (GSE-CI) of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) fell 7.56 points to close trading at 2,540.48 points representing a YTD return of -8.92%.
The GSE Financial Stock Index (GSE-FSI) also lost 13.51 points to close trading at 2,049.36 points translating into a YTD return of -4.76%.
Fifteen (15) equities traded on Tuesday, ending with three (3) decliners. ETI, GCB and TOTAL were the decliners as they lost GHS 0.01 each to close trading at GHS 0.13, GHS 4.49 and GHS 4.08 respectively.
Market Capitalization for the day settled at GHS 64.43 billion.
DECLINERS
Ticker | Close Price (GH¢) | Open Price (GH¢) | Change (GH¢) | YTD Change |
ETI | 0.13 | 0.14 | -0.01 | -7.14% |
GCB | 4.49 | 4.50 | -0.01 | -0.22% |
TOTAL | 4.08 | 4.09 | -0.01 | -0.24% |
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