KARACHI: Bulls dominated throughout the session on Tuesday and the Pakistan Stock Exchange closed on positive note on the 13th consecutive session due to strong interest of local investors and institutions. BRIndex100 gained 14.04 points or 0.37 percent to close at 3,800.97 points. During the session, the BRIndex-100 hit an intraday high of 3,825.75 and an intraday low of 3,774.99 points. Total volume stood at 430.702 million shares.
BRIndex30 inched up by 55.24 points or 0.29 percent to close at 19,429.82 points with total daily turnover of 300.749 million shares.
KSE-100 index increased by 126.65 points or 0.35 percent and closed at the level of 36,745.22 points. Daily trading volumes on the ready counter slightly decreased to 466.251 million shares as compared to 468.906 million shares traded on Monday.
The foreign investors however remained net sellers of equities and withdrew $12.794 million from the Pakistan capital market. Total market capitalization increased by Rs 18 billion to Rs 6.925 trillion. Out of total 393 active scrips, 214 closed in positive and 18 in negative while the value of 21 stocks remained unchanged.
K-Electric was the volume leader with 39.266 million shares and gained Re 0.24 to close at Rs 3.39 followed by Pak Elektron that increased by Rs 1.37 to close at Rs 30.44 with 33.542 million shares. Hinopak Motor and Indus Motor Co were the top gainers increasing by Rs 36.51 and Rs 29.37 respectively to close at Rs 523.41 and Rs 1220.51 while Philip Morris Pak and Indus Dyeing were the top losers declining by Rs 50.00 and Rs 41.00 respectively to close at Rs 1750.00 and Rs 551.00.
BR Automobile Assembler Index gained 49.96 points or 0.78 percent to close at 6,494.98 points with total turnover of 6.768 million shares. BR Cement Index lost 30.77 points or 0.64 percent to close at 4,812.64 points with 52.009 million shares.
BR Commercial Banks Index fell by 3.75 points or 0.05 percent to close at 7,324.00 points with 32.964 million shares.
BR Power Generation and Distribution Index increased by 15.97 points or 0.37 percent to close at 4,345.58 points with 48.126 million shares.
BR Oil and Gas Index inched up by 29.29 points or 0.76 percent to close at 3,882.90 points with 55.766 million shares.
BR Tech & Comm Index closed at 1,451.31 points, down 5.45 points or 0.37 percent with 37.021 million shares.
An analyst at Arif Habib Limited said the market realized a second consecutive day with 460 million volume and in the process posted a gain of 317 points during the session taking the KSE-100 index to a recent time high of 36,936 points.
Highlight of the day turned out to be PPL, which realized high trading volume and after initial trades at below LDCP, the price spiked significantly. Despite international crude prices facing a down day, E&P scrips (PPL and POL) posted decent gains. POL also announced a hydrocarbons discovery that took the stock price trading near upper circuits.
Profit booking was mainly observed in Cement sector throughout the day, and similar pressure was observed in E&P stocks that brought the Index to close plus 127 points.
Cement sector posted highest traded volumes of 51.9 million shares, followed by Power (48.1 million shares) and Cable (37.9 million shares).
Sectors contributing to the performance include E&P (up 66 points), Inv. Banks (up 36 points), Fertilizer (up 24 points), Misc (up 11 points), Pharma (up 10 points), Cement (down 23 points) and O&GMCs (down 15 points).
Stocks that contributed positively to the index include POL (up 44 points), DAWH (up 31 points), PPL (up 16 points), KEL (up 15 points) and SHFA (up 11 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include PSO (down 18 points), LUCK (down 11 points), HUBC (down 10 points), BAFL (down 9 points) and DGKC (down 8 points).
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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