PH Stocks Extend Declines
Manila—(PHStocks)—Philippine stocks fell on profit taking Friday, 20 December, extending the decline for the second straight day. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) lost nearly 1.5% or 88 points to close this week’s trading at 5,835.13.
All counters were back in the red, with the Property index shedding as much as 1.81%. The Industrial segment was the second biggest declining sector, dropping by 1.6%, followed by the Financials, which slid by 1.41%. The wider All-Shares index decreased by 1.22%.
Trading was moderate, with value turnover reaching PhP7.6 billion on 1.11 billion shares traded. There were 51 gainers against 91 losers, while 42 stocks were flat.
Top most active in terms of value:
- International Container Terminal Services Inc. (PSE: ICT): PhP100.00, -0.99%
- Puregold Price Club Inc. (PSE: PGOLD): PhP36.65, -0.95%
- Alliance Global Group Inc. (PSE: AGI): PhP25.50, -0.97%
- Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PSE: TEL): PhP2,646.00, -0.97%
- Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (PSE: MBT): PhP74.20, -0.40%
- BDO Unibank Inc. (PSE: BDO): PhP68.40, -0.87%
- MacroAsia Corp. (PSE: MAC): PhP4.00, -4.53%
- Universal Robina Corp. (PSE: URC): PhP112.00, -5.88%
- Ayala Land Inc. (PSE: ALI): PhP24.45, -2.59%
- Globe Telecom Inc. (PSE: GLO): PhP1,602.00, -0.56%
Top gainers:
- Megaworld Corp. WARRANTS1 (PSE: MEGW1): PhP1.81, 49.59%
- Island Information and Technology Inc. (PSE: IS): PhP0.035, 34.62%
- Pancake House Inc. (PSE: PCKH): PhP17.20, 21.99%
- 2GO Group Inc. (PSE: 2GO): PhP1.88, 18.99%
- Philippine Trust Co. (PSE: PTC): PhP82.00, 9.33%
- Maybank ATR Kim Eng Financial Corp. (PSE: MAKE): PhP18.00, 5.88%
- Manulife Financial Corp. (PSE: MFC): PhP785.00, 5.65%
- Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corp. “B” (PSE: OPMB): PhP0.019, 5.56%
- Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (PSE: IMI): PhP2.69, 5.49%
- San Miguel Pure Foods Co. Inc. (PSE: PF): PhP228.80, 5.44%
Top decliners:
- Berjaya Philippines Inc. (PSE: BCOR): PhP18.00, -21.74%
- Alphaland Corp. (PSE: ALPHA): PhP34.00, -19.05%
- Ionics Inc. (PSE: ION): PhP0.39, -13.33%
- Marcventures Holdings Inc. (PSE: MARC): PhP2.70, -11.18%
- I-Remit Inc. (PSE: I): PhP2.50, -10.71%
- Benguet Corp. “A” (PSE: BC): PhP6.35, -10.56%
- NextStage Inc. (PSE: NXT): PhP2.20, -10.20%
- Medco Holdings Inc. (PSE: MED): PhP0.197, -9.63%
- Starmalls Inc. (PSE: STR): PhP3.40, -7.86%
- IP E-Game Ventures Inc. (PSE: EG): PhP0.012, -7.69%
