Foreign stock investors withdraw N99.94bn in four months

A total of N99.94bn was pulled out by foreign investors from the Nigerian stock market in the first four months of this year as foreign involvement plunged to a four-year low in April.

The foreign portfolio investors injected N 78.31bn into the market from January to April this year, according to data from the Nigerian Exchange Limited.

Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) outflow includes sales transactions or liquidation of portfolio investments through the stock market, while the FPI inflow includes purchase transactions on the NSE (equities only), according to the bourse.

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The NGX, in its latest domestic and foreign portfolio report, said foreign outflow fell to N9.82bn in April from N20.28bn in March.

Techeconomy had reported that foreign investors withdrew N30.79bn in January; N39.05bn in February, and N20.28bn in March, 

Total transactions at the bourse decreased by 30.01 per cent from N228.49bn (about $560.55m) in March 2021 to N159.93bn (about $389.84m) in April 2021.

The total value of transactions executed by domestic investors in April outperformed transactions executed by foreign investors by about 64 per cent.

Domestic transactions decreased by 29.78 per cent from N187.85bn in March to N131.91bn in April.

Total foreign transactions decreased by 31.05 per cent from N40.64bn (about $99.70m) in March to N28.02bn (about $68.31m) in April.

The NGX said the institutional Investors outperformed retail investors by 44 per cent in April, adding that retail transactions decreased by 66.37 per cent from N108.55bn in March to N36.50bn in April.

However, the institutional composition of the domestic market increased by 20.32 per cent from N79.30bn in March 2021 to N95.41bn in April 2021,” it said.

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Experts say they maintain their expectation of weak domestic and foreign investors’ participation on the local bourse in the near term due to sustained rise in yields in the fixed income space and lingering liquidity constraints in the FX market.”

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