KARACHI: Despite shedding some early gains, the Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark KSE-100 index Tuesday remained in green zone by adding 137.85 points to reach 32811.89 level at closing.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level of 32952.42 points and lowest level of 32671.46 points, with the total volume of 164,043,751 shares, having Rs10.4 billion value. As many as 329 companies were active; of which 126 advanced, 187 declined and 16 remained unchanged.
The three top traded companies were TRG Pak Ltd with a volume of 16,091,000 and price per share of 3,000 (-0.80), Jah Sidd Co with a volume 10,916,000 of price per share of 21.40 (0.34), and Pak Elektron with a volume 9,146,000 of price per share of 64.50 (-2.71).
The top three gainers were Nestle Pak with price per share 7980 (380), Rafhan Maize with price per share of 9200 (350) and Philip Morris Pak with price per share of 1824 (86.88).
The top three losers were Atlas Battery with price per share of 755.05 (-33.95), Exide (PAK) with price per share of 912.01 (-30.59) and AKD Capital per share of 345.48 (-18.18).
Earlier, the Karachi stock continued the previous day’s bullish note and gained 252 points to reach 32925.54 points with the total volume of 23,002,190 shares in early trading. Till midday, the KSE-100 index added another 224.46 points to take the tally to 32898.50 level.
On Monday, the Karachi Stock Exchange benchmark KSE 100-index added 173.29 points to close at 32,674.04 points. Traded volume was increased by 15% to 120m shares and traded value inched up by 3% to Rs7.09b. Major activities were seen in TRG, Byco Petroleum, and Sui North Gas with traded volumes of 11m, 6.6m and 6.2m shares respectively.
