A bullish trend continued on Pakistan Stock Exchange on the back of healthy buying, mainly by local investors and institutions. BRIndex100 gained 80.93 points or 1.7 percent to close at 4,836.10 points Monday. BRIndex100 touched intraday high of 4,838.32 and intraday low of 4,743.49 points. Volumes stood at 263.418 million shares.
BRIndex30 increased by 418.18 points or 1.71 percent to 24,909.12 points with a turnover of 179.018 million shares. The benchmark KSE-100 index surged by 718.86 points or 1.63 percent to 44,897.69 points. Trading activity also improved as daily volumes on the ready counter increased to 294.354 million shares as compared to 209.472 million shares traded Friday.
Foreign investors however remained net sellers of shares worth $3.4 million. The market capitalization increased by Rs 129 billion to Rs 9.222 trillion. Out of total 396 active scrips, 295 closed in positive, only 87 in negative while the value of 14 stocks remained unchanged.
Amtex Limited was the volume leader with 19.699 million shares. It gained Re 0.58 to close at Rs 1.88 followed by Power Cement that increased by Re0.76 to close at Rs 10.07 with 15.992 million shares. Unilever Foods and Sanofi-Aventis were the top gainers with Rs 301.00 and Rs 77.67, respectively to close at Rs 7,900.00 and Rs 1,631.20. United Brands and Murree Brewery were the top losers with Rs 28.00 and Rs 20.84, respectively to close at Rs 535.00 and Rs 785.16.
BR Commercial Banks Index gained 103.76 points or 1.16 percent to close at 9,056.29 points with total turnover of 25.054 million shares.
BR Cement Index increased by 248.3 points or 4.23 percent to close at 6,115.69 points with 47.878 million shares. BR Oil and Gas Index closed at 5,348.31 points, up 45.05 points or 0.85 percent with 20.139 million shares. BR Tech. & Comm. Index inched up by 29.22 points or 2.55 percent to close at 1,177.02 points with 26.114 million shares.
BR Power Generation and Distribution Index surged by 111.37 points or 1.73 percent to close at 6,540.22 points with 15.006 million shares. An analyst at Arif Habib Limited said that the KSE100 index continued to rise and shine. Another spike of 719 points took the Index near 45,000 level. Most of this index upsurge is backed by foreign buying interest, which has mainly been in Banks, Cement and E&P sector so far. Participation of local institutions has been scant, however, they are expected to increase participation going forward.
Sectors contributing to performance include Cement (up 164 points), Fertilizer (up 107 points), Commercial Banks (up 95 points), Power (up 63 points) and O&GMCs (up 49 points).
Scrips that contributed positively include HUBC (up 54 points), LUCK (up 50 points), DAWH (up 42 points), ENGRO (up 34 points) and DGKC (up 34 points). Stocks that contributed negatively include MUREB (down 4 points), JDWS (down 3 points), AICL (down 3 points), SNBL (down 3 points) and NATF (down 2 points).
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