Many small and medium stocks traded actively, VN-Index exceeded 1,280 points

Trading on the market continued to be vibrant with the transaction value of the three floors reaching over VND37,900 billion. In particular, cash flow was strongly concentrated in the group of small and medium-sized stocks.

Entering the trading session on March 22, the market continued to maintain a positive state, with indices increasing right from the beginning of the session. Cash flow spread to many stock groups, of which the banking group contributed the most to supporting the general market. However, the market's excitement did not last too long. After nearly 1 hour of trading, selling pressure increased somewhat, causing the indices to narrow their gains.

In the afternoon session, the market fluctuated narrowly with some shaking and struggling. At times, selling pressure increased, causing the VN-Index to fall below the reference level. Strong pressure occurred in the VN30 group and caused this index to trade in red for many periods. However, the green color of the general market was still maintained until the end of the session when demand was still quite abundant.

The market focus today is on the banking group, although the differentiation is quite clear. Some stocks such as BID, CTG, VCB, MBB... attracted good cash flow and this helped to consolidate the green color of the general market. BID was the "leading" stock in the banking group today when it increased by 2.3% and had the largest contribution to the VN-Index with 1.67 points. VCB also contributed 1.64 points when it increased by 1.3%. Codes such as CTG, MBB... also increased in price.

Stocks of 3 Big 4 banks lead the market

Meanwhile, bank stocks such as TCB, HDB, VIB... were in the red but most of the declines were under 1%.

The real estate stock group still maintained a certain positivity, in which, PDR increased by 2.4%, DXG increased by 1.8%, CEO increased by 0.9%... In addition, some stocks in the securities group also increased well such as BSI, CTS, FTS... In which, BSI increased by 5.9%, at one point in the session, BSI was pulled up to the ceiling price of 63,100 VND/share.

Gelex (GEX) shares attracted great attention when they increased sharply by 6.4% and matched a record of 72 million shares. Two shares, HPX and AGM, continued to maintain their momentum. Of which, HPX, since resuming trading on March 20 with a reference price of VND5,460/share, has had 3 consecutive ceiling price sessions with a large amount of ceiling price buy orders and climbed to VND7,490/share. Similarly, AGM was resuming trading on March 21 and had 2 ceiling price sessions to VND8,050/share.

On the other hand, pillar stocks such as FPT, VNM, GAS... were all in red and put great pressure on the general market. FPT decreased by 1.1%, VNM decreased by 0.9%, GAS decreased by 0.6%. FPT took away the most from VN-Index with 0.4 points. VNM and GAS took away 0.31 points and 0.28 points respectively.

At the end of the trading session, VN-Index increased by 5.38 points (0.42%) to 1,281.8 points. The entire floor had 248 stocks increasing, 231 stocks decreasing and 77 stocks remaining unchanged. HNX-Index increased by 0.54 points (0.22%) to 241.68 points. The entire floor had 90 stocks increasing, 85 stocks decreasing and 74 stocks remaining unchanged. UPCoM-Index increased by 0.13 points (0.15%) to 90.95 points.

Market liquidity remained at a very high level with the total trading volume on the HoSE reaching nearly 1.38 billion shares worth VND34,734 billion, up 17% compared to yesterday's session. Negotiated transactions contributed more than VND5,470 billion, of which ACB negotiated 145 million shares at the beginning of the session with a total value of more than VND4,000 billion and most of them were traded by foreign investors. On all three floors, the transaction value reached over VND37,900 billion.

GEX topped the market in terms of matched volume with 72 million shares. MBB and VIX matched 41.5 million shares and 39 million shares, respectively.

Foreign investors are aggressively buying GEX.

Foreign investors had the 9th consecutive net selling session on HoSE with a value of 460 billion VND, in which, this capital flow net sold the most VNM code with 219 billion VND. HPG and VHM were net sold 136 billion VND and 116 billion VND respectively. In the opposite direction, GEX was the strongest net bought with 193 billion VND. KBC and PDR were both net bought over 100 billion VND.

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