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Kathmandu Sunday November 25, 2001 Marga 10, 2058.
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Nepse index dips by over 5 points
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Nov 24 – Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index
that represents the confidence of shareholders in stock market has declined this week by
over five points.
The index had increased continuously for the last four weeks
indicating an increase in the confidence of the share holders over the share market. The
volume of share had also increased during the last four weeks.
According to the information compiled and disseminated by
Nepal Stock Exchange, the Nepse Index plunged this week by 5.14 points from 300.15 points
to remain at 296.01 points. The Index in the last week had increased by 2.82 points and by
over 12 points in the previous two weeks.
In group-wise manner, the index of commercial banks during
this week has shown an increment of 3 points. The index of this group rose from 315.28
points in the opening day to 318.55 points on the closing day. Similarly, the index of
Insurance and Finance Group has also soared from 309.13 points to 316.21 points.
However, the index of manufacturing and processing group
recorded a marginal decline and settled at 317.16 points from 317.51 points while the
index of hotel groups and trading groups remained unchanged at 235.51 points and 102.28
points respectively.
During this week, the index of other groups increased
marginally from 146.41 points to settle at 147.26 points.
In group-wise market participation, commercial bank group
continued to lead the share transactions to retain its first position capturing 68.58 per
cent of the total market participation. This group had also remained in the first position
in the last week capturing 61.91 per cent of the total shares.
During this week, the market participation of finance group
remained at the second position capturing 23.05 per cent of total share transactions. This
group had also remained at the second spot with the share transactions of 18.43 per cent.
The share of hotel group this week was 6.51 per cent of total
share transactions while it was 11.8 per cent in the last week, which helped the group to
stay at the third position during both the weeks. In the same way, market participation of
manufacturing and processing group was 4.31 per cent while that of others was 0.02 per
cent.
During this week, a total of 45,902 share units valued at Rs
14.89 million were traded in 1058 share transactions. In the last week, 22,584 share units
valued at Rs 6.24 million were traded in 502 share transactions.
In terms of the number of share transactions and the units of
share transacted, Oriental Hotels topped the list with a transaction of 13,980 share units
in 205 share transactions. However, Bank of Kathmandu topped the list in terms of value of
shares transacted. And such transaction was of Rs 1.78 million.
The Nepse market remained open for all five days of this
week. The companies whose shares were traded all five days include Nepal Arab Bank,
Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of Kathmandu, Himalayan Bank Limited, Nepal Merchant Banking
and Finance, Alpic Everest Finance Limited, Oriental Hotels, Lumbini Finance and Leasing
Company and Nepal Bangladesh Leasing and Finance Company.
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