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The Nigerian equity market closed the week on a positive note, as key performance indicators, including the NGX-ASI and Market Capitalization, recording a growth of 0.22%. This positive sentiment was driven by buying interest in medium and large cap stocks, such as GTCO, NASCON, MRS, and others. The uptick was further driven by the release of full-year financial performance and corporate action from some quoted companies, which spurred increased investor participation. On a week-onweek basis, market index grew by 0.66%. Specifically, the market index (All-Share Index) added 234.52 basis points in today’s trading session, reflecting a 0.22% increase to close at 105,660.64. Likewise, the Market Capitalization also gained ₦147.05 billion, representing a growth of 0.22%, settling at ₦66.26 trillion.
Furthermore, the market activities were up, as the Total Volume and Total Value trades increased by 29.26% and 135.45% respectively. Approximately 547.57 million units valued at ₦21,617.16 million were transacted across 13,244 deals. In terms of volume, MBENEFIT led the activity chat, accounting for 13.66% of the total volume of trades, followed by CUTIX (13.30%), GTCO (12.53%), FIDELITYBK (8.78%), and UNIVINSURE (6.10%), rounding out the top five ARADEL emerged as the most traded stock in value terms, with 33.30% of the total value of trades on the exchange.
ABBEYBDS and UPDC topped the advancers’ chart for today with a price appreciation of 10.00 percent each, trailed by NNFM with (+9.96%) growth, MBENEFIT (+9.38%), ROYALEX (+8.25%), GTCO (+7.08%), NAHCO (+7.04%) and seventeen others. Thirty-one (31) stocks depreciated, where AFRIPRUD, and INTENEGINS were the top losers, with a price depreciation of -10.00% each, as CADBURY (-9.42%), LIVESTOCK (-7.64%), NEIMETH (-6.33%), DANGSUGAR (-4.06%), and JAPAULGOLD (-2.51%) also dipped in price. In that regard, the market breadth closed negative, recording 24 gainers and 31 losers.
Nevertheless, the market sectoral performance closed par, as two of the five major market sectors were down, which include the Banking and Consumer goods sectors with a decline of 1.28% and 0.21% accordingly, while the Insurance and Oil & Gas sectors dropped by 1.28% and 0.02% respectively. The Insurance 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.
