PH Stocks Take a Breather
Manila—(PHStocks)—Philippine stocks slipped Wednesday, 19 November, as investors locked in their gains after a three days of growth.
The mainboard Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) index shed just 6 points or 0.08% to close the session at 7,269.49. The Financials, Industrial, Services, and Mining and Oil indices, however, managed to maintain their slow, steady gains.
Volume traded reached 2.57 billion, valued at PhP7.91 billion. Foreign buying reached PhP4.02 billion and foreign selling, PhP2.75 billion, for a net buy of PhP1.27 billion. There were 84 gainers against 98 losers, while 42 stocks remained flat.
Top gainers:
- Megaworld Corp. (PSE: MEG): PhP5.05, 1.61%
- Jollibee Foods Corp. (PSE: JFC): PhP197.10, 0.41%
- Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PSE: TEL): PhP2,992.00, -0.07%
- First Gen Corp. (PSE: FGEN): PhP25.70, -2.10%
- Security Bank Corp. (PSE: SECB): PhP160.00, 2.83%
Top gainers:
- Swift Foods Inc. (PSE: SFI): PhP0.217, 11.28%
- Greenergy Holdings Inc. (PSE: GREEN): PhP0.53, 6.00%
- Phinma Corp. (PSE: PHN): PhP10.66, 5.54%
- Republic Glass Holdings Corp. (PSE: REG): PhP2.58, 5.31%
- MacroAsia Corp. (PSE: MAC): PhP2.40, 4.35%
- Asia Amalgamated Holdings (PSE: AAA): PhP1.72, 4.24%
- Cityland Development Corp. (PSE: CDC): PhP1.05, 3.96%
- Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co. “A” (PSE: LC): PhP0.265, 3.92%
- Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co. “B” (PSE: LCB): PhP0.275, 3.77%
- Apex Mining Co. Inc. (PSE: APX): PhP3.10, 3.33%
Top losers:
- IP E-Game Ventures Inc. (PSE: EG): PhP0.015, -6.25%
- Omico Corp. (PSE: OM): PhP0.64, -4.48%
- A Brown Company Inc. (PSE: BRN): PhP1.10, -4.35%
- Ever-Gotesco Resources & Holdings Inc. (PSE: EVER): PhP0.22, -4.35%
- GT Capital Holdings Inc. (PSE: GTCAP): PhP1,090.00, -3.96%
- TKC Steel Corp. (PSE: T): PhP1.70, -3.95%
- Berjaya Philippines Inc. (PSE: BCOR): PhP24.50, -3.92%
- Philippine Realty & Holdings Corp. (PSE: RLT): PhP0.51, -3.77%
- Central Azucarera De Tarlac (PSE: CAT): PhP90.50, -3.72%
- Centro Escolar University (PSE: CEU): PhP10.50, -3.67%