PH Stocks Extend Gains for Fifth Session

Manila—(PHStocks)—Philippine stocks continued their rally for the fifth straight session.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) withstood the profit-taking through most of the morning session, before pulling in gains late into the day’s trading to end 0.23% higher to 6,019.24.

The Mining and Oil index gained 2.75% further, while the Services sector went up by 1.16%. The Holding Firms (-0.51%) and the Property (-0.36%) sectors were the only sectors that declined. The wider All-Shares index was flat.

Value turnover reached PhP4.27 billion on 2.01 billion traded shares. Foreign buying reached PhP2.78 billion while foreign selling totaled PhP2.54 billion. There were 85 gainers against 72 losers, while 39 stocks remained flat.

Top most active in terms of value:

1. Ayala Land Inc. (PSE: ALI): PhP26.70, -0.19%
2. LT Group Inc. (PSE: LTG): PhP17.00, -0.93%
3. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PSE: TEL): PhP2,762.00, 2.52%
4. SM Investments Corp. (PSE: SM): PhP703.00, -1.19%
5. BDO Unibank Inc. (PSE: BDO): PhP73.90, 2.21%
6. Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (PSE: MBT): PhP77.40, 0.98%
7. Alliance Global Group Inc. (PSE: AGI): PhP26.40, 1.34%
8. SM Prime Holdings Inc. (PSE: SMPH): PhP14.10, -0.7%
9. International Container Terminal Services Inc. (PSE: ICT): PhP95.00, -1.45%
10. Aboitiz Power Corp. (PSE: AP): PhP35.80, 0.28%

Top gainers:

1. NextStage Inc. (PSE: NXT): PhP4.81, 49.84%
2. United Paragon Mining Corp. (PSE: UPM): PhP0.013, 18.18%
3. Benguet Corp. “A” (PSE: BC): PhP8.00, 17.65%
4. Manila Mining Corp. “A” (PSE: MA): PhP0.019, 11.76%
5. Benguet Corp. “B” (PSE: BCB): PhP7.80, 11.43%
6. Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corp. “B” (PSE: OPMB): PhP0.02, 11.11%
7. ATN Holdings Inc. “B” (PSE: ATNB): PhP1.28, 10.34%
8. Primex Corp. (PSE: PRMX): PhP3.43, 8.89%
9. ATN Holdings Inc. “A” (PSE: ATN): PhP1.25, 7.76%
10. IP E-Game Ventures Inc. (PSE: EG): PhP0.014, 7.69%
11. Zeus Holdings Inc. (PSE: ZHI): PhP0.36, 7.46%
12. A Brown Co. Inc. (PSE: BRN): PhP1.17, 7.34%
13. Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. (PSE: AT): PhP15.96, 7.11%
14. Nihao Mineral Resources International Inc. (PSE: NI): PhP2.43, 7.05%
15. Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co. “B” (PSE: LCB): PhP0.435, 6.1%
16. Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corp. “A” (PSE: OPM): PhP0.018, 5.88%
17. Manila Mining Corp. “B” (PSE: MAB): PhP0.021, 5%
18. Century Peak Metals Holdings Corp. (PSE: CPM): PhP0.63, 5%
19. Oriental Peninsula Resources Group Inc. (PSE: ORE): PhP1.81    4.62%
20. I-Remit Inc. (PSE: I): PhP2.80, 4.48%

Top decliners:

1. 8990 Holdings Inc. (PSE: HOUSE): PhP6.00, -11.63%
2. Seafront Resources Corp. (PSE: SPM): PhP1.61, -10.56%
3. Chemical Industries of the Philippines (PSE: CIP): PhP130.00, -7.14%
4. Prime Media Holdings Inc. (PSE: PRIM): PhP1.75, -6.42%
5. National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines (PSE: NRCP): PhP1.37, -5.52%
6. PAL Holdings Inc. (PSE: PAL): PhP5.68, -5.33%
7. Filipino Fund Inc. (PSE: FFI): PhP17.16, -4.67%
8. Suntrust Home Developers Inc. (PSE: SUN): PhP0.91, -4.21%
9. Starmalls Inc. (PSE: STR): PhP3.45, -3.63%
10. Sinophil Corp. (PSE: SINO): PhP0.29, -3.33%
11. Shang Properties Inc. (PSE: SHNG): PhP3.15, -3.08%
12. Anchor Land Holdings Inc. (PSE: ALHI): PhP12.98, -2.99%
13. LMG Chemicals Corp. (PSE: LMG): PhP3.70, -2.63%
14. Solid Group Inc. (PSE: SGI): PhP1.22, -2.4%
15. MacroAsia Corp. (PSE: MAC): PhP2.98, -2.3%
16. Paxys Inc. (PSE: PAX): PhP2.20, -2.22%
17. IRC Properties Inc. (PSE: IRC): PhP1.37, -2.14%
18. Cosco Capital Inc. (PSE: COSCO): PhP8.22, -2.14%
19. Concepcion Industrial Corp. (PSE: CIC): PhP23.50, -2.08%
20. DFNN Inc. (PSE: DFNN): PhP4.90, -2%