Stocks
Over Half of the DSE money are still trapped at floor prices
The stock market with the unusual floor price support has regained vibrancy to generate over Tk1,000 crore in turnover daily and people on the street are talking about which stock to chase right now for astounding gains.
Everything is happening providing 52pc of scrips stuck on the price floor that came into result from the last trading session of July.
Hence, the 4 October market report by the research team of brokerage firm Royal Capital Ltd, 193 of the 369 scrips in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) were stuck at the floor price – which means there were lots of sale orders amid no buyers at the lowest allowable price.
The price floor being loved by a large number of dealers, mostly retail ones, is also frustrating significant market participants, especially institutional investors, who want the market to remain free enough to find more buyers and sellers for the sake of exchangeability and a genuine price discovery mechanism.
Blue-chip shares, that are stuck on the floor, increased the agonies of serious investors as many are unable to sell large-cap stocks such as Grameenphone (GP), Square Pharmaceuticals, BRAC Bank, Renata, Singer Bangladesh, regardless of their need for cash or will to hold onto trades.
10 of the 30 blue chip companies on the DSE are hibernating on the floor having bare trades at the price level.
BAT Bangladesh, BRAC Bank, Fortune Shoes, Grameenphone,(GP), Islami Bank, LankaBangla Finance, Renata, Robi, Singer Bangladesh and Square Pharmaceuticals were the DS30 companies stuck on the floor on Tuesday.
Like many, CFA Society Bangladesh President Shaheen Iqbal in a recent capital market hosted a show, suggests that the floor price should not be in place because it was causing the price and preventing the development of the capital market.
A stock might go down and also come back to its fair level in a free environment, he said, referring to the argument that a fall in stock prices is not the end of the world.
The floor steroid, hence, worked in helping the market recover from its 14-month low at the end of July.
DSEX, the broad-based index of the DSE surged by 9.43pc to 6,544 on Tuesday, from 5,980 on 28 July 2022.
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) made the price floor effective from 31 July, which is not allowing any money to trade below the then price level.
Responding to the criticisms of the stock market regulator’s repeated market disruption moves, BSEC Chairman Professor Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam in August said that the commission was undone because of the market structure – the dominance of retail investors who needs some protection.
Floor is so strong in the investors’ psyche in the bourses of Dhaka and Chattogram that a rumor in early September that the regulator might revoke the controversial price floor triggered a massive selloff in the stock market and the market later bounced back after the top BSEC officials’ promises that the commission was not even thinking of anything like that.
Dhaka Stock Exchange DSE, Bourses on the first working day of the week, March 27, ended with price index drops & turnover hikes.
This information is known from DSE sources.
317 crores 60 lakh shares were traded in DSE on this day. 30 crores 62 lakhs more trading was done in DSE today compared to the previous workday, 23 March, Shares worth Tk 286 crores 97 lakh shares were traded in DSE last time, Thursday.
The benchmark index DSEX dropped 11.38 points or 6,203. The Shariah-based index DSES shed 3.56 points or 1,349, and the blue-chip index DS30 lost 2.60 points or 2,215.
Of the issues traded, 28 advanced, 72 declined, and 183 remained unchanged.
Legacy Footwear Limited ranked top gainer on DSE, the share price increased by Tk 5.6 paisa or 9.96 percent. On this day, the share was last traded at Tk 61.80 paisa.
On the other hand, Islamui Commercial Insurance Company Ltd ranked top loser on the DSE, the share price dropped by Tk 1.3 paisa or 4.71 percent. On this day, the share was last traded at Tk 26.30 paisa.
DSE topped on trade Unique Hotel & Resorts PLC 41 crores 52 lakh 86 thousand takas of shares of the company have been traded.
A total of 52 companies’ shares were traded in the Block on Dhaka Stock Exchange, 25 lakh 74 thousand 877 shares of the companies were traded. The financial value of which is 18 crore 76 lakh taka.
One of the listed companies, Salvo Chemical Industry Limited, discloses its financial reports for the second quarter, (October-December 22). This source is known from DSE.
The company’s earnings per share (EPS) was Tk 0.37 paisa in Q2 of the current financial year. EPS was Tk 0.80 paisa during the same period last year. As of December 31, 2022, net asset value (NAVPS) was loss of Tk 15.42 paisa.
The company reported EPS has been decreased due to increase in costs because of high raw material price in local and import prices, currency devaluation and increase in energy price which adversely affected overall profitability of the Company.
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One of the Listed Companies, Prime Islami Life Insurance Limited has recommended 2 percent cash Dividend to its investors for the Financial Year ending December 31, 2022.
This source is known from DSE.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the company will be held on May 29 through the digital platform. The record date for this has been fixed at April 17.
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