Market on April 18: Banking stocks flourish, VN-Index increases more than 10 points

NDO - The trading session on April 18th was filled with green. VN-Index opened positively, increasing points again along with a significant improvement in trading volume. Entering the afternoon session, the situation was tug-of-war, but near the end of the session, selling pressure suddenly appeared, causing the VN-Index to decline and fall around the reference level at the end of the session. At the end of the session, VN-Index increased by 13.29 points, to 2,017.73 points.

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Market liquidity increased slightly compared to the previous session, with total trading volume on the three exchanges reaching more than 1,230.60 million shares, equivalent to a total trading value of more than VND 23,880.80 billion.

Foreign investors returned to net buying on all 3 floors of more than 2.3 billion VND, focusing on codes FPT (256.24 billion VND), SHB (75.99 billion VND), HPG (68.86 billion VND), VCI (44.34 billion VND), MBB (41.23 billion VND)...

On the contrary, the stocks with the most net sales in this session included VIX (82.26 billion VND), HCM (71.41 billion VND), VHM (59.07 billion VND), TPB (54.75 billion VND), BID (47.30 billion VND)...

On the HoSE floor, the matched order value of this session increased compared to the previous session, reaching more than VND 20,874.70 billion.

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Top stocks affecting VN-Index on April 18. (Source: finance.vietstock.vn)

In this session, the codes that contributed positively to the VN-Index increased by more than 4.57 points include: SHB, FPT, VPB, EIB, MBB, VNM, GEE, GVR, GMD, CTG.

On the contrary, the stocks that negatively impacted the VN-Index by more than 7.63 points included: VIC, VHM, HVN, MWG, VJC, LGC, VCI, BMP, HPG, VCG.

In terms of industry groups, this session, software stocks leaned towards green, up 2.08%, mainly from codes FPT, CMG, ITD, HPT, CMT, PIA...

The group of securities stocks performed positively, increasing by 0.86%, mainly from codes SSI, VND, HCM, VIX, MBS, FTS, SHS, DSE... On the contrary, the codes that decreased included VCI, DSE...

Similarly, banking stocks traded positively this session and increased by 0.85%, mainly from codes BID, CTG, MBB, VPB, ACB, LPB, HDB, STB,... A few codes decreased including PGB...

The real estate stock group this session recorded a decrease of 2.26%, mainly from codes VIC, VHM, KDH, VPI... On the contrary, the codes that increased included BCM, SSH, NVL, KSSF, KBC...

Energy stocks were in the green, recording an increase of 1.28%, mainly from codes BSR, PVS, PVD, TMB, PVC, POS, PVB... On the contrary, the decreasing codes included CST...

The group of raw material stocks had a mixed performance, recording an increase of 0.25%, mainly from codes GVR, DGC, VGC, MSR, DPM... On the contrary, the codes that decreased included HPG, KSV, DCM, BMP...

Insurance stocks decreased by 0.75%, mainly from codes BVH, PVI, BLI... Increasing direction included VNR, BIC, MIG, BMI, PTI, ABI...

Retail stocks performed positively this session, up 0.62%, mainly from PLX, PNJ, FRT, OIL, DGW, SAS, VFG... On the contrary, stocks that decreased included MWG, HHS, HTM...

* Today, Vietnam's stock market indexes increased simultaneously, VNXALL-Index closed up 13.29 points (+0.66%), to 2,017.73 points. Liquidity with a trading volume of more than 1,060.69 million units, equivalent to a trading value of more than VND 22,319.68 billion. In the whole market, there were 277 stocks increasing in price, 76 stocks remaining unchanged and 104 stocks decreasing in price.

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Vietnam stock market index on April 18. Source: iboard.ssi.com.vn

* At the Hanoi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index closed at 213.1 points, up 3.52 points (+1.68%). Liquidity reached a total of more than 112.12 million shares transferred, with a corresponding trading value of more than VND 1,791.41 billion. In the whole market, there were 131 stocks increasing in price, 48 stocks remaining unchanged and 53 stocks decreasing in price.

The HNX30 index closed up 7.8 points (+1.88%), at 422.72 points. Trading volume reached over 65.24 million units, equivalent to over VND1,216.05 billion. In the whole market, there were 21 stocks increasing in price, 3 stocks remaining unchanged and 6 stocks decreasing in price.

On the UPCoM market, the UPCoM-Index closed at 91.3 points, up 0.77 points (+0.85%). Market liquidity, total trading volume reached more than 50.83 million shares, corresponding trading value reached more than 422.58 billion VND. In the whole market, there were 254 stocks increasing in price, 113 stocks remaining unchanged and 110 stocks decreasing in price.

* At the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, the VN-Index closed up 1.87 points (+0.15%), at 1,219.12 points. Liquidity reached over 1,067.2 million units, equivalent to a trading value of over VND21,567.23 billion. The entire floor had 321 stocks increasing, 72 stocks remaining unchanged and 136 stocks decreasing.

The VN30 Index increased by 3.21 points (+0.25%) and stopped at 1,306.24 points. Liquidity reached more than 420.92 million units, equivalent to a trading value of more than VND 10,746.11 billion. The VN30 group of stocks ended the trading day with 20 stocks increasing, 4 stocks remaining unchanged and 6 stocks decreasing.

The 5 stocks with the highest trading volume are SHB (over 156.32 million units), VIX (over 90.24 million units), VND (over 41.69 million units), MBB (over 31.56 million units), GEX (over 27.68 million units).

The 5 stocks with the highest price increase were TDW (+6.96%), SMC (+6.96%), TMT (+6.94%), CIG (+6.93%), GIL (+6.87%).

The 5 stocks with the biggest price decrease were BCG (-6.98%), MDG (-6.98%), CLW (-6.91%), VIC (-6.90%), L10 (-6.60%).

* Today's derivatives market had 218,834 contracts traded, worth more than VND 28,670.02 billion.

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