On the fourth working day of the week, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the main stock market of the country, traded shares and units of a total of 371 companies worth Tk 1,808 crore 19 lakh.
More than half of these transactions were in shares of 10 companies. This information is known from DSE sources.
According to sources, on Wednesday, September 21, the shares of the top ten traded companies traded for a total of Tk 946 crore 87 lakh. Among these companies, Orion Pharma shares were traded the most. 1 crore 74 lakh 102 shares of the company were exchanged in DSE today. The market value of these shares is Tk 257 crore 25 lakhs.
On this day, Beximco Limited came to second place in the list of transactions. Today 1 crore 67 lakh 15 thousand 23 shares of the company worth Tk 229 crore 69 lakh were exchanged.
Bangladesh Shipping Corporation, which ranks third in the list, traded shares worth Tk 102 crore 22 lakh today.
Shares of three companies traded more than five million takas on Wednesday. Out of this, shares of JMI Hospital 66 lakh 63 thousand, Shahjibazar Power 61 lakh 22 thousand and Lafarge Holcim 54 lakh 79 thousand were traded.
Also, 40 crores 31 lakh shares of Orion Infusion, 37 lakh 99 thousand shares of Acme Laboratories, 34 lakh 73 thousand shares of Bashundhara Paper and 3 million 99 thousand shares of Shinepukur Ceramics have been placed in the top ten of transactions.