PH Stocks Recover as Investors Take Position

Manila—(PHStocks)—Philippine stocks were up Monday, 6 January, as investors start pick up bargain stocks after last Friday’s profit taking.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) ended the trading day 0.64% or 37.88 points higher – regaining its losses last week – to 5,985.81.

All counters are back in the green, led by the Mining and Oil sector, which posted a 1.05% gain after surging by 5.12% last week. The Industrials increased by 0.92%, while the Holding Firms index went up by 0.8%. The All-Shares index edged higher by 0.62%.

Trading, however, was slow. Value turnover reached PhP4.9 billion on 980 million shares traded, with foreign buying reaching PhP2.61 billion and foreign selling, PhP3.11 billion. There were 97 gainers today compared to 59 losers, while 39 stocks were flat.

Top most active in terms of value:

1. BDO Unibank Inc. (PSE: BDO): PhP71.80, 1.92%
2. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PSE: TEL): PhP2,652.00, 0.68%
3. Universal Robina Corp. (PSE: URC): PhP119.40, 0.34%
4. Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (PSE: MBT): PhP79.00, 2.07%
5. Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. (PSE: RRHI): PhP58.10, NC
6. SM Prime Holdings Inc. (PSE: SMPH): PhP14.60, -1.35%
7. Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (PSE: MPI): PhP4.34, -0.23%
8. Ayala Corp. (PSE: AC): PhP525.50, 0.96%
9. Alliance Global Group Inc. (PSE: AGI): PhP26.25, NC
10. Ayala Land Inc. (PSE: ALI): PhP25.50, 0.99%
11. International Container Terminal Services Inc. (PSE: ICT): PhP100.50, -1.37%
12. SM Investments Corp. (PSE: SM): PhP713.00, 0.99%
13. Megaworld Corp. (PSE: MEG): PhP3.41, 3.02%
14. JG Summit Holdings Inc. (PSE: JGS): PhP39.50, 1.67%
15. Bloomberry Resorts Corp. (PSE: BLOOM): PhP9.00, NC
16. Emperador Inc. (PSE: EMP): PhP10.68, 0.56%
17. Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (PSE: RCB): PhP44.00, 0.11%
18. Puregold Price Club Inc. (PSE: PGOLD): PhP39.00, -0.51%
19. Energy Development Corp. (PSE: EDC): PhP5.75, 2.13%
20. Globe Telecom Inc. (PSE: GLO): PhP1,614.00, 0.25%

Top gainers:

1. Alphaland Corp. (PSE: ALPHA): PhP18.58, 16.27%
2. Zeus Holdings Inc. (PSE: ZHI): PhP0.335, 11.67%
3. Lorenzo Shipping Corp. (PSE: LSC): PhP1.35, 8.87%
4. Marcventures Holdings Inc. (PSE: MARC): PhP3.34, 8.44%
5. iRipple Inc. (PSE: RPL): PhP11.78, 7.09%
6. Southeast Asia Cement Holdings Inc. (PSE: CMT): PhP1.03, 6.19%
7. Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. (PSE: TA): PhP1.58, 6.04%
8. A Brown Company Inc. (PSE: BRN): PhP1.06, 6%
9. ISM Communications Corp. (PSE: ISM): PhP2.00, 5.82%
10. Centro Escolar University (PSE: CEU): PhP11.38, 5.76%
11. Araneta Properties Inc. (PSE: ARA): PhP1.50, 5.63%
12. Waterfront Philippines Inc. (PSE: WPI): PhP0.37, 4.23%
13. AbaCore Capital Holdings Inc. (PSE: ABA): PhP0.52, 4%
14. Bankard Inc. (PSE: BKD): PhP2.09, 3.98%
15. ATN Holdings Inc. “A” (PSE: ATN): PhP1.32, 3.94%
16. Melco Crown (Philippines) Resorts Corp. (PSE: MCP): PhP14.40, 3.9%
17. Mabuhay Holdings Corp. (PSE: MHC): PhP0.61, 3.39%
18. Filipino Fund Inc. (PSE: FFI): PhP16.00, 3.23%
19. Premiere Horizon Alliance Corp. (PSE: PHA): PhP0.32, 3.23%
20. PAL Holdings Inc. (PSE: PAL): PhP6.45, 3.2%

Top decliners:

1. Leisure and Resorts World Corp. Warrants (PSE: LRW): PhP0.28, -30%
2. Island Information and Technology Inc. (PSE: IS): PhP0.034, -15.00%
3. Calapan Ventures Inc. (PSE: H2O): PhP6.54, -10.16%
4. Discovery World Corp. (PSE: DWC): PhP2.20, -7.95%
5. Apex Mining Company Inc. “A” (PSE: APX): PhP1.80, -7.69%
6. South China Resources Inc. (PSE: SOC): PhP1.01, -7.34%
7. SPC Power Corp. (PSE: SPC): PhP4.10, -6.82%
8. Anchor Land Holdings Inc. (PSE: ALHI): PhP13.50, -6.64%
9. Anglo Philippine Holdings Corp. (PSE: APO): PhP1.77, -6.35%
10. Medco Holdings Inc. (PSE: MED): PhP0.178, -6.32%
11. Manila Mining Corp. “A” (PSE: MA): PhP0.015, -6.25%
12. Asia Amalgamated Holdings (PSE: AAA): PhP1.90, -5%
13. Benguet Corp. “B” (PSE: BCB): PhP6.32, -4.24%
14. Forum Pacific Inc. (PSE: FPI): PhP0.208, -4.15%
15. Megawide Construction Corp. (PSE: MWIDE): PhP13.26, -4.05%
16. Basic Energy Corp. (PSE: BSC): PhP0.245, -3.92%
17. Shang Properties Inc. (PSE: SHNG): PhP3.14, -3.68%
18. Da Vinci Capital Holdings Inc. (PSE: DAVIN): PhP0.87, -3.33%
19. DFNN Inc. (PSE: DFNN): PhP5.05, -3.07%
20. Suntrust Home Developers Inc. (PSE: SUN): PhP0.95, -3.06%