The good performance of Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) in recent days, propelled by Ecobank Ghana, continued with another healthy gain by the stock on Thursday, which lifted the main index, the GSE All-Share index, by 26.53 per cent.
The index closed active trading up at 6,469.64 points from 6,443.11 points, with Ecobank Ghana leading four gainers.
Change for the year ended better at -37.98 per cent while market capitalisation also improved at GH¢16,042.04 million from GH¢16,022.72 million.
Traded volumes nearly doubled at 2,768,600 shares from 1,644,800 on Wednesday with Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited selling nearly 1.95 million shares and UNIL selling 501,900 shares.
On the broader market, there were four price changes, all positive.
Ecobank Ghana gained GH¢0.06 to close GH¢3.09; SG-SSB gained GH¢0.02 at GH¢0.58; State Insurance Company gained GH¢0.02 at GH¢0.31; and Guinness Ghana Breweries Ghana Limited was GH¢0.01 better at GH¢1.29.
The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis
Equities Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis
Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.12
African Champion Industries Ltd ACI 0.10
Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.00
Aluworks Limited ALW 0.50
Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.15
Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.58
Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.25
CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.04
Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.08
Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.16
Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.05
Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 3.09 +0.04
Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 2.50
Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 0.21
Fan Milk Limited FML 4.10
Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.79
Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.29 +0.01
Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.15
Golden Star Resources GSR 3.10
Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.05
HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.62
Mechanical Lloyd Co. Ltd MLC 0.20
Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.07
Produce Buying Company PBC 0.20
PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 1.10
Standard Chart. Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 29.00
SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.31 +0.02
Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.05
SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.58 +0.02
Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.03
Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.33
TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 7.50
Transaction Solutions Gh. Ltd TRANSOL 0.11
Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 3.42
UT Financial Services UT 0.17
AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.31