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The Nigerian equity market resumed trading activities after the Holiday and entered the second quarter of the year on a negative note, as key performance indicators “the NGX-ASI and Market Capitalization”, declined by 0.11%. Market sentiment was mixed as investors continue to react to companies’ release of full-year financial reports and corporate actions to the investment public. Specifically, the market index (All-Share Index) reduced by 113.48 basis points in today’s trading session, reflecting a 0.11% decrease to close at 105,547.16. Likewise, the Market Capitalization also lost ₦71.16 billion, representing a decline of 0.11%, settling at ₦66.19 trillion.
Furthermore, the market activities were down, as the Total Volume and Total Value trades decreased by 19.99% and 44.41% respectively. Approximately 438.09 million units valued at ₦12,016.01 million were transacted across 17,286 deals. In terms of volume, FIDELITYBK led the activity chat, accounting for 9.56% of the total volume of trades, followed by MBENEFIT (8.25%), NB (8.16%), GTCO (7.57%), and ZENITHBANK (6.56%), rounding out the top five. GTCO emerged as the most traded stock in value terms, with 19.19% of the total value of trades on the exchange.
AFRIPRUD and VFDGROUP topped the advancers’ chart for today with a price appreciation of 9.96 percent each, trailed by UNIONDICON with (+9.28%) growth, MAYBAKER (+6.17%), FIDSON (+5.26%), NAHCO (+4.48%), ROYALEX (+3.81%) and seventeen others. Thirty-three (33) stocks depreciated, where UACN was the top loser, with a price depreciation of -10.00%, as LIVESTOCK (-8.05%), UCAP (-7.27%), NASCON (-6.42%), OANDO (-5.48%), and FIRSTHOLDCO (-3.02%) also dipped in price. In that regard, the market breadth closed negative, recording 24 gainers and 33 losers.
In addition, the market sectoral performance was negative, as three of the five major market sectors were down, led by the Insurance sector which declined by (2.61%), followed by the Oil & Gas sector by (0.49%), and the Consumer goods sector by (0.01%). The Banking sector recorded a growth of 0.07%, while the Industrial sector closed unchanged.
Following the data published by NBS, the country’s GDP stood at 3.46% in Q3’2024, a growth of 27 bps when compared to 3.19% recorded in the second quarter of the year. Furthermore, the growth rate in the third quarter of the year increased by +0.92% points, when compared to 2.54% recorded in Q3’2023. The country maintained a positive growth rate in third quarter of the year despite different macro and microeconomic headwinds.
Non-Oil Sector Growth Rate Up by 57bps
As regards components contributing to the GDP, the Non-Oil sector contributed 94.43% to the GDP growth, which was 0.14% higher than 94.30% contribution in Q2’2024, but 0.10% lower than 94.52% contribution in Q3’2023. On the other hand, the Oil contribution to the GDP declined for the second successive quarter by 2.39% to 5.57% in Q3’2024 as against 5.70% in Q2’2024, despite an increase in Crude oil production in the quarter under review.
In terms of growth, the non-Oil components grew by 57 basis point to 3.37% in Q3’2024, as against 2.80% in Q2’2024. Whereas, the real growth in the Oil component of the GDP stood at +5.17% in Q3’2024, which represent a decrease of 4.98% points relative to +10.15% recorded in Q2’2024. The country’s crude oil production averaged 1.47mbpd in Q3’2024, which was higher than the daily average crude oil production of 1.45mbpd recorded in the same quarter of 2023, and also 0.07mbpd higher than the Q2’2024 production volume of 1.41mbpd.
Agricultural Sector Growth Dropped by 0.27% q/q
Agricultural sector recorded a positive growth rate of 1.14% in Q3’2024, but was 0.27% point lower than 1.41% recorded in Q2’2024, and also 0.15% point lower than 1.30% recorded in the third quarter of the previous year, as Flooding, insecurity, and low-level of mechanized farming continues to draw back the agricultural sector. Also, the sector contributed 28.65% to the overall GDP in real terms in Q3’2024, which was higher than its contribution in Q2’2024 (22.61%), but lower than its contribution in the third quarter of 2023 (29.31%).
The Industrial sector declined by 135bps to 2.18% in Q3’2024 in real terms, compared to a growth of +3.53% witnessed in Q2’2024, due to the volatility in the exchange rate, high inflation rate and high lending rate. Furthermore, the sector’s contribution to GDP was down to 17.77% in Q3 2024 from 18.62% in Q2 2024, and also down by 0.22% points when compared 18.00% contribution in Q3 2023.
