Equities Report
The trading volume for March 2022 was 17,720,072 shares with a turnover of UGX 2,066,242,173. This month’s turnover performance was a 78% increase from 26,947,169 shares worth UGX 1,154,790,287 that was recorded in March 2021.
Activity in March decreased 36 % compared to the turnover registered in February 2022, from 3.2 billion to 2 billion. This represents a daily average turnover of approximately UGX 93 million. Volume traded decreased to 17 million shares compared to 68 million shares traded in February 2022. The number of deals increased to 626 deals up from 475 deals executed in February 2022, with 46 per cent of the deals attributed to the UMEME counter.
Turnover performance per counter
UMEME counter dominated activity for the month accounting for 74.78 percent of the total turnover followed by MTN Uganda Limited with 17.81 percent. In third position was Stanbic with 4.09 per cent contribution to the month’s turnover and Uganda Clays Limited in fourth position with 2.32 percent, National Insurance Corporation Uganda Limited, Bank of Baroda Uganda, New Vision Limited, CIPLA and DFCU combined recorded 0.98 percent of the total turnover.
Volume traded per counter
UMEME registered the highest volume of shares with 48.41 percent, followed by Stanbic with 18.38 percent. Uganda Clays Limited came third with 12.39 percent of the volume, while MTN Uganda Limited was in the fourth position with 11.33 percent of the total volume. National Insurance Corporation Uganda Limited accounted for 8.89 percent, Bank of Baroda Uganda , New Vision Limited, CIPLA, DFCU and Centum had the least number of shares traded amounting to 105,841 shares representing 0.59 percent of total number of shares traded.
