This week Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE), was open for only 4 trading days from August 6 to August 10; trading closed on August 8, Tuesday on the occasion of Gaijatra. Total shares worth Rs 3.18 arba were traded while manual turnover stood at Rs 1.16 crores. The total traded quantity by the end of the week was 12,103,582 with 35,650 total transactions.
The market saw a downward trend as NEPSE index was on 1665.5 points on the opening day i.e Aug 6 decreasing with 11.52 points and finally closing with 1,653.53 points at the end of the week on Thursday. NEPSE thus, saw a 0.62 % decrease in NEPSE index by the end of the week.
The sensitive index; representing a Group A companies also showed a bearish trend with a decrease by 2.08 points; starting with 349.11 at the start of the week and ending with 347.03 by Thursday.
Similarly, the float index; representing public (tradable) shares decreased by 1.24 points, a 1.02% decrease starting with 121.38 on Sunday and settling on 120.14 by Thursday. The Sensitive Float index started with 107.79 and ended with 106.75; decrease in index by 1.04 points 0.96 %.
The sensitive index, measures the performance of Group ‘A’ companies listed by the NEPSE, while the float index shows indicates the performance of public (tradable) shares.
The sector wise market summary of NEPSE stood as:
| Sectors |
6-Aug |
10-Aug |
Points |
% |
Total Traded Amount (Rs.) |
| Banking |
1,450.05 |
1,433.14 |
-16.91 |
-1.17% |
1,118,455,000 |
| Trading |
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| Hotels |
2,491.16 |
2,507.70 |
16.54 |
0.66% |
48,804,080.00 |
| Development Bank |
2,084.58 |
2,063.61 |
-20.97 |
-1.01% |
962,638,000.00 |
| Hydro Power |
1,942.88 |
1,917.23 |
-25.65 |
-1.32% |
244,553,900.00 |
| Finance |
811.20 |
822.51 |
11.31 |
1.39% |
255,454,600.00 |
| Insurance |
9,402.13 |
9,397.48 |
-4.65 |
-0.05% |
814,497,000.00 |
| Manu & Pro. |
2,769.15 |
2,752.91 |
-16.24 |
-0.59% |
20,948,740.00 |
| Others |
713.79 |
722.46 |
8.67 |
1.21% |
59,689,440.00 |
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| Total Market Capitalization Millions |
1,950,621.08 |
1,939,443.15 |
-11,177.93 |
-0.57% |
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| Floated Market Capitalization Millions |
668,262.66 |
662,961.12 |
-5,301.54 |
-0.79% |
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The top 10 traded companies with total amount this week stood as:
| Top 10 Total Amount Traded |
| S.N |
Companies |
Rs. |
| 1 |
Citizen Investment Trust |
195,309,105 |
| 2 |
Nepal Life Insurance Co. Ltd. |
159,324,426 |
| 3 |
Standard Chartered Bank Limited |
144,566,134 |
| 4 |
National Hydro Power Company Limited |
135,828,888 |
| 5 |
Prime Commercial Bank Ltd. |
115,223,640 |
| 6 |
Nabil Bank Limited |
102,209,065 |
| 7 |
National Microfinance Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. |
83,833,827 |
| 8 |
Siddhartha Investment Growth Scheme-1 |
78,048,842 |
| 9 |
Everest Bank Limited |
77,649,684 |
| 10 |
Forward Community Microfinance Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. |
76,126,831 |
The top 10 companies as per the total volume traded stood as:
| Top 10 Total Volume Traded |
| S.N |
Companies |
Rs. |
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| 1 |
Siddhartha Investment Growth Scheme-1 |
3,127,300 |
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| 2 |
Laxmi Value Fund-1 |
1,185,554 |
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| 3 |
Nabil Balance Fund 1 |
943,511 |
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| 4 |
National Hydro Power Company Limited |
902,802 |
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| 5 |
NMB Sulav Investment Fund-1 |
580,475 |
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| 6 |
Siddhartha Equity Orineted Scheme |
298,052 |
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| 7 |
Prime Commercial Bank Ltd. |
252,692 |
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| 8 |
Lumbini Bikas Bank Ltd. |
164,652 |
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| 9 |
Jebils Finance Ltd. Promoter Share |
158,951 |
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| 10 |
Prabhu Bank Limited |
151,037 |
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While the top 10 companies based on the total number of transactions stood as:
| Top 10 Total Transaction |
| S.N |
Companies |
Rs. |
| 1 |
Nepal Life Insurance Co. Ltd. |
1,761 |
| 2 |
National Microfinance Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. |
1,556 |
| 3 |
Prime Commercial Bank Ltd. |
1,391 |
| 4 |
Standard Chartered Bank Limited |
1,121 |
| 5 |
Chhyangdi Hydropower Ltd. |
968 |
| 6 |
Nepal Investment Bank Limited |
903 |
| 7 |
Forward Community Microfinance Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. |
747 |
| 8 |
Arun Kabeli Power Ltd. |
746 |
| 9 |
Prabhu Bank Limited |
661 |
| 10 |
Nabil Bank Limited |
605 |
The top 10 gainers and losers this week at NEPSE were:
| Top 10 Gainers |
Prices |
| S.N |
Companies |
% |
6-Aug |
10-Aug |
| 1 |
ProgressiveFinance Limited |
15.11% |
225 |
259 |
| 2 |
Green Development Bank Ltd. |
8.10% |
617 |
667 |
| 3 |
Siddhartha Investment Growth Scheme-1 |
5.96% |
25 |
26.49 |
| 4 |
Lumbini Bikas Bank Ltd. |
5.61% |
214 |
226 |
| 5 |
Nabil Balance Fund 1 |
5.21% |
21.1 |
22.2 |
| 6 |
Citizen Investment Trust |
3.25% |
4581 |
4730 |
| 7 |
Everest Bank Limited Con. Pref. |
3.23% |
806 |
832 |
| 8 |
United Finance Ltd. |
3.14% |
255 |
263 |
| 9 |
Kanchan Development Bank Limited |
2.94% |
272 |
280 |
| 10 |
NIBL Samriddhi Fund 1 |
2.83% |
12.74 |
13.1 |
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| Top 10 Losers |
Prices |
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| S.N |
Companies |
% |
6-Aug |
10-Aug |
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| 1 |
Kuber Merchant Finance Limited |
-24.29% |
212 |
280 |
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| 2 |
Laxmi Value Fund-1 |
-18.72% |
11.72 |
14.42 |
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| 3 |
Chhyangdi Hydropower Ltd. |
-17.72% |
260 |
316 |
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| 4 |
World Merchant Banking & Finance Ltd. |
-9.39% |
164 |
181 |
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| 5 |
Nepal Grameen Bikas Bank Ltd. |
-7.64% |
871 |
943 |
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| 6 |
Synergy Power Development Ltd. |
-7.42% |
212 |
229 |
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| 7 |
Barun Hydropower Co. Ltd. |
-6.79% |
247 |
265 |
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| 8 |
Summit Micro Finance Development Bank Ltd. |
-4.61% |
3600 |
3774 |
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| 9 |
Shree Investment Finance Co. Ltd. |
-4.61% |
476 |
499 |
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| 10 |
Everest Insurance Co. Ltd. |
-4.46% |
2655 |
2779 |
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