KARACHI: After witnessing fluctuation whole the day, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed positive adding 74.67 points to take the tally to 32876.55 points level on Friday.
The stocks recorded the highest trading level of 32906.98 points and lowest level of 32777.11 points, with the volume of 109.22 million shares, having about Rs5 billion value. As many as 293 companies were active; of which 134 advanced, 134 declined and 25 remained unchanged.
Oil & gas marketing companies banks was the top traded sector with 11,296,500 volume, while cement remained second with 8,380,200 volume.
The three top traded companies were Sui North Gas with a volume of 11,327,000 and price per share of 25.47 (0.33), Dewan Motors with a volume 7,866,500 of price per share of 9.25 (-0.64), TRG Pak Ltd with a volume 5,721,000 of price per share of 27.00 (-0.35).
The top three gainers were Nestle Pak with price per share 6700 (300), Unilever Foods with price per share of 5300 (200) and Philip Morris Pak price per share of 1809 (52.25).
The top three losers were Island Textile with price per share of 724 (-35.99), Colgate Palmo with price per share of 1460 (-29.99) and Service Ind.Ltd per share of 840 (-24).
Earlier, the Pakistan Stock Exchange started trading with positive note as the benchmark KSE-100 gained 51 points to reach 32852.77 points level in early trading. The PSX remained almost flat till midday and lost -1.04 points to reach 32800.84 points level.
On Thursday, the stocks declined for the third consecutive session amid thin trade. The KSE 100-share index lost 126 points or 0.38% to close at 32,801.88 points. Dull trading was witnessed at the local bourse yesterday as traded volumes fell 35% to 86.4m and traded value declined by 27% to Rs4.6b/$44m. Bearish momentum continued in automobile sector stocks as Honda Car (HCAR), Pak Suzuki (PSMC) and Indus Motors (INDU) fell in the range of 0.7-1.7%, stated researchers a major brokerage. Total 323 active companies participated in the session of which 179 closed in decline, 212 in advance while 23 remained unchanged.