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Daily Market Report for July 28, 2022

  • The Nigerian Exchange Limited Bourse closed Negative. The benchmark All Share Index (ASI) depreciated by 1.04% to close at 49,667.14 pts. Market Capitalization decreased by 281.18 billion to close at N26.78 trillion and the Year-to-Date (YtD) returns settled at 16.27%.
  • Performance across sectors was broadly bearish as 4 out of 5 sectors closed in the red zone. Banking, Consumer Goods, Industrial and Insurance Indices declined by 3.54%, 3.77%, 0.46% and 3.19% respectively. While Oil/Gas Index advanced by 0.59%.
  • Market activity measured by aggregate volume decreased by 75.14% and value decreased by 4.49%. Investors traded a total of 206 million units of shares valued at N3.92 billion in 5,053 deals.

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Daily Market Report for July 27, 2022

  • The Nigerian Exchange Limited Bourse closed Negative. The benchmark All Share Index (ASI) depreciated by 0.50% to close at 50,188.55 pts. Market Capitalization decreased by 136.88 billion to close at N27.06 trillion and the Year-to-Date (YtD) returns settled at 17.49%.
  • Performance across sectors was broadly bearish as 4 out of 5 sectors closed in the red zone. Banking, Industrial, Insurance and Oil/Gas Indices declined by 2.34%, 0.04%, 1.10% and 1.07% respectively. While Consumer Goods Index advanced by 0.05%.
  • Market activity measured by aggregate volume increased by 431.17% and value increased by 39.79%. Investors traded a total of 830 million units of shares valued at N4.11 billion in 4,977 deals.

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Daily Market Report for July 26, 2022

  • The Nigerian Exchange Limited Bourse closed Negative. The benchmark All Share Index (ASI) depreciated by 1.86% to close at 50,442.37 pts. Market Capitalization decreased by 516.7 billion to close at N27.20 trillion and the Year-to-Date (YtD) returns settled at 18.09%.
  • Performance across sectors was broadly bearish as 4 out of 5 sectors closed in the red zone. Banking, Consumer Goods, Insurance and Oil/Gas Indices declined by 1.85%, 1.27%, 1.69% and 0.49% respectively. While Industrial Index remained unchanged.  
  • Market activity measured by aggregate volume increased by 57.98% and value increased by 16.78%. Investors traded a total of 156 million units of shares valued at N2.94 billion in 4,618 deals.

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Daily Market Report for July 25, 2022

  • The Nigerian Exchange Limited Bourse closed Negative. The benchmark All Share Index (ASI) depreciated by 1.11% to close at 51,400.53 pts. Market Capitalization decreased by 312.44 billion to close at N27.72 trillion and the Year-to-Date (YtD) returns settled at 20.33%.
  • Performance across sectors was broadly bullish as 4 out of 5 sectors closed in the green zone. Banking, Consumer Goods, Industrial and Insurance Indices advanced by 1.03%, 0.12%, 0.04% and 0.06% respectively. While Oil/Gas Index declined by 0.03%. 
  • Market activity measured by aggregate volume decreased by 51.79% and value decreased by 17.77%. Investors traded a total of 99 million units of shares valued at N2.51 billion in 4,314 deals.

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Weekly Market Review & Stock Recommendation – July 25, 2022

Some of our recommended stocks are mentioned below; 
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Ecobank Inc is estimated to have a Q2 2022 gross earnings of N496.04bn, up by 12% from N442.89bn in Q2 2021. Profit after tax is estimated to grow from N62.55bn in Q2 2021 to N65.70bn in Q2 2022. Consequently, earnings per share is estimated at N1.95. Ecobank Transnational Inc Q1 2022 results showed an increase in interest income by 12.24% from N139.11bn in Q1 2021 to N156.13bn in Q1 2022. Net interest income advanced by 4.15% from N95.35bn in Q1 2021 to N99.31bn in Q1 2022 despite a 30% rise in interest expense. Operating income advanced by 10.27% from N164.64bn in Q1 2021 to N181.54bn in Q1 2022. PBT went up by 29.07% from N40.34bn in Q1 2021 to N52.07bn in the current period. PAT grew by 25.68% to N38.32bn in the current period from N30.49bn in Q1 2021. EPS grew by 41.67% to N1.12 in Q1 2022 from N0.84 in Q1 2021. Ecobank has a BVPS of N48.03, P/BV ratio of 0.21x and P/E ratio of 2.10x.
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Afriprud Plc’s result for Q2 2022 showed that Gross Earnings advanced from N1.67bn in Q2 2021 to N1.99bn in Q2 2022 by 19.29%. Revenue from contracts rose by 79.26% from N517 million in Q2 2021 to N928 million in Q2 2022 while Interest  income decreased by 7.70% from N1.15bn in Q2 2021 to N1.06bn in Q2 2022. Operating profit rose by 17.99% to N1.2bn in the current period from N1.01bn in Q2 2021. Profit before tax went up  by 18.82% from N972.33 million in Q2 2021 to N1.16bn in the current period. Profit after tax advanced by 13.07% to N935.78 million in the current period from N827.64 million in Q2 2021 as income tax increased by 51.74%. Consequently, Earnings per share went up by 14.63% from N0.41 in Q2 2021 to N0.47 in the current period. Afriprud has a BVPS of N4.35, P/BV of 1.30x and P/E ratio of 6.01x. 

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