The KSE 100-Index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed bullish trend on Friday, gaining 89.52 points, a positive change of 0.22 percent, closing at 41,630.35 points against 41,540.83 points on the last working day.
A total of 154,030,533 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 192,897,759 shares the previous day, whereas the price of shares stood at Rs4.031 billion against Rs6.786 billion on last trading day.
As many as 322 companies transacted shares in the stock market, 167 of them recorded gain and 137 sustained losses, whereas the share price of 18 companies remained unchanged.
The three top trading companies were Agritech Limited with a volume of 19,751,000 shares and price per share of Rs6.54, Azgard Nine with volume of 9,112,000 and price per share of Rs10.80 and G3 Technologies with a volume of 8,716,000 and price per share of Rs8.66.
Allawasaya Tex witnessed a maximum increase of Rs106.42 per share, closing at Rs1,525.42, whereas the runners-up was Sanofi-Aventis, the share prices of which climbed up by Rs80.12 to Rs1,148.48.
Al-Abbas Sugar witnessed maximum decrease of Rs16.30 per share closing at Rs272.50, followed by Exide (Pak), the share price of which declined by Rs13.29 to close at Rs265.13.
