Ten top-traded cos snare 32pc turnover

The ten top-traded companies accounted for more than 32 per cent of the total transactions on the country's premier bourse on Tuesday. Unique Hotel & Resorts dominated the turnover chart.

Brokers said Unique Hotel topped the transactions chart as investors were active on its shares throughout the session and share purchased by an independent director of the company also helped the company grab the top chart.

Prantik Travels and Tourism, (where Ghulam Mustafa is the MD of Prantik Travels and Tourism and also an independent director of Unique Hotel), on Tuesday reported that it completed its buy of 2,50,000 shares of the company at prevailing market price through stock exchange as announced earlier.

According to statistics available with the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), about 4.40 million shares of Unique Hotel were traded, generating a turnover of Tk 279 million or 7.13 per cent of the total transactions.

The total turnover on the DSE stood at Tk 3.91 billion, which was 3.71 per cent higher than the previous day's turnover of Tk 3.77 billion.

The company's shares price traded between Tk 62.10 and Tk 64.30, before closing at Tk 63.20, advancing 1.93 per cent over the previous day.

In the last one year, the company's share price traded between Tk 46.60 and Tk 64.30, hitting the year's highest price on Tuesday.

The company's un-audited second quarter (Q2) earnings per share (EPS) stood at Tk 0.71 for October-December, 2017 as against Tk 0.69 for October-December, 2016.

In six months for July-December period of 2017, EPS was Tk 1.21, 2017 as against Tk 0.95 for July-December, 2016.

The company, which was listed on the Dhaka bourse in 2012, disbursed 20 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2017.

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