Market Update for February 20

Nigeria’s stock market on Tuesday had a very volatile session but closed on a positive note, thereby halting the previous day’s down market, after opening sharp down in the early morning which continue in the mid-morning till midday before retracing up in the afternoon to wipe out some of previous day’s loss on the strength of value appreciation in the shares of Nestle Nigeria, Dangote Cement and PZ Cussons Nigeria.
As we have seen in recent correction that followed the January rally, the market has been struggling to find direction as foreign and institutional inflow slowed down ahead of actual full-year numbers from the December year-end companies.
As it is today, it is still unclear where the market could be at the close of the second month of the year, even as the NSE index over the past two weeks have been struggling to recover on pre-earnings season positioning after suffering huge losses resulting from the market correction.
What is however clear is that the current changed pattern in the market is posing a lot of challenges to investors, because the market had not experienced this pattern in the past decade. This is becoming worrisome to investors because of their conventional way of trading the market. The changing market at this point calls for new strategies, even as the combination of fundamentals and technical analysis will help trade profitably and protect capital.
Tuesday’s market volatility was strong as the NSE’s composite All-Share index dropped on top of its 50 day moving average after touch intraday low of 41,497.82 basis points, before retracing higher to 42,265.53bp. It was a session where highly capitalized stocks appreciated in value to close the day higher, after an earlier emotional selling.
Market technicals for the day were strong but mixed, with high buying pressure of 85% on huge volume traded, while selling position stood at 15%. Volume index was 0.57 with money flow index at 26.33 point.
The All-Share index gained 160.66 points to close at 42,148.40 basis points after opening at 41,987.74bp, representing a growth of 0.38% on high traded volume higher than the previous day’s. Similarly, market capitalisation for the day was up by N57.49bn to close at N15.13tr, after opening at N15.07tr which also represented 0.38% value gain in investors’ position.
The upturn in the share value of the medium and high cap stocks like Dangote Cement, UBA, FBNH, Dangote Flour, PZ and Guinness Nigeria impacted positively on the NSE’s Year-To-Date returns, which bounced to 10.12%, just as market capitalisation gain for the period dropped to N1.46tr, representing 11.05% YTD growth.
The benchmark index and all other sectorial indexes were mixed, as market breadth remained negative with decliners outnumbering advancers in the ratio of 37:18. Market activities in volume and value terms were up by 77.69% and 102.59% to 510.28m shares worth N4.63bn from previous day’s 287.18m units valued at N2.29bn.
Transaction volume for the day was considerably boosted by financial services and others stocks like FBNH, Diamond Bank, Jaiz Bank Transcorp and FCMB which witnessed increased trading to top the activity chart as most traded.
The best performing stocks for the day were PZ and Cadbury with 5.00% and 4.97% gain to close at N24.5 and N15.85 respectively, on expectation of full-year earnings, while Conoil and Unity Bank topped the worst performing stock with 9.69% and 9.20% respectively to close at N35.5 and N1.48, on serious profit booking.
TODAY’S OUTLOOK
The changing pattern in the market calls for changes in investors/traders strategies to play the earnings season, also expect short term positioning for Q4 earnings reports and volatility to continue as traders jump into the market on low price attraction ahead of dividend declaration. The relatively low interest rates in the money market and sell-off in the bond market will boost inflow into stock market as fund managers play earnings season for quick returns target high dividend yield stocks,
However, we would like to reiterate that investors should go for equities with intrinsic value, especially during this season that dividend payment is approaching.
We advise investors to allow numbers guide their decisions while repositioning for the rest of the year’s trading activities, especially now that stock prices remain volatile amidst improving company, economic and market fundamentals.
It is time to combine fundamentals and technical tools to take decision by knowing the support and resistant level to reposition or exit any position. Market is in phases know the cycles in order to manage your trading and investing risk. For stocks that should be on your shopping list to buy in this seasonality changes as the year winds down, sign up to INVESTDATA BUY AND SELL signal setup by calling 08028164085.
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TIME: 10am – 3.00pm
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