Latest / Green Ticker Tales / Greenticker NGX Daily Market Summary May 20, 2026
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- 0:00Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to today's Green Ticker NGX Daily Market Summary. Here are the key points from today's training session. The All Share Index fell by 1.02%. Today, the index measures the average performance of stocks. You had profit-taking in Bua Cement and chemical and allied products, PLC. Those were the drivers of the decline in the market today. But let's also look at other numbers as well.
- 0:28In terms of volume traded, you had 600.2 million shares traded. And in terms of value traded, you had 32.7 billion naira worth of shares traded. Our number of deals was 58,958 deals. Now, the essence of monitoring all this is it gives you an idea of the velocity, if I can use that word. So if you're seeing a spike in volume, you ask yourself, what's leading to that?
- 0:56You see a spike in value traded. What's leading to that? What stock is behind this? You see a huge number of deals. You ask yourself, where is that traffic coming from? So that is the essence, ladies and gentlemen, of why I keep talking about volume and value and deals traded. But let's go look. Let's go look at the top gainers and losers. On the gainer side of things, we had Zichis. Zichis appreciating by 9.99%.
- 1:24uh closing at 32 naira and four couple abc transport also rose by the same margin up nine point nine nine percent to close at eight nine twenty six couple japan gold gained nine point nine five percent to close at four naira and nine couple on the loser side of things was cement fell by ten percent losing at 414 naira share cap fell by nine point nine nine percent at closing at 210 naira 35 couple and then you had the meristem value
- 1:53ETF declining by 9.69% to close at 152 Naira a share. In terms of volume traded, Assets Corporation took pole position, 55.9 million shares traded. Next was Chapo Gold with 49.8 million shares traded. And then third place was Zenit Bank with 36.6 million shares traded. In terms of value traded, Zenit Bank took pole position with 4.8 billion Naira worth of shares traded. Second place was Ardell.
- 2:20with 3.75 billion Naira worth of shares traded. And then third place was MTN Nigeria, with 2.95 billion Naira worth of shares traded. Before we go, ladies and gentlemen, as is customary with me, let's go check the NGX corporate disclosure page and let's see if there's anything major that we need to know, any major announcements. None at the moment, but if you have the time, do join me at 7 p.m.
- 2:49uh nigerian time where the video version will go up that tends to be recorded a bit after this so it can accommodate any breaking news uh ladies and gentlemen i thank you for listening catch you if you can't join the video version or problem i hope you will oblige me do me the pleasure of joining me tomorrow at 5 00 am nigerian time for tomorrow's pre-market coverage of the ngx do stay safe