Islamabad: On Friday, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) showed a bullish trend. The KSE 100 index closed at 40,164.02 points, compared with 40,068.50 points in the previous working day, a positive change of 95.52 points (0.24%).
The total trading volume on that day was 254,204,675 shares, the previous day’s trading volume was 324,790,950 shares, and the stock price was 7.30 billion rupees, compared with 110.24 billion rupees the previous day.
As many as 352 companies trade stocks on the stock market, of which 188 companies recorded gains, 139 suffered sustained losses, and 25 companies’ stock prices remained unchanged.
The top three companies are: Unity Foods Ltd, with a trading volume of 45,064,500 shares at a price of 17.72 rupees per share; Kohinoor Spining, with a trading volume of 20,740,000 at a price of 3.67 Rs per share, and Hascol gasoline, with a trading volume of 15,274,175, per share Share price. The share is Rs 15.42.
Indus Dyeing recorded maximum increase of Rs40.31 per share, closing at Rs577.80 whereas Bata (Pak) was runner up with the increase of Rs35 per share, closing at Rs1650.
Nestle Pakistan witnessed maximum decrease of Rs175.00 per share, closing at Rs6425 whereas Sapphire Tex shares decreased by Rs44.74 per share closing at Rs740.
