Shares decline on late selling

A facility of PetroVietnam Gas Joint Stock Corporation (PV GAS). GAS lost 0.8 per cent yesterday. VNA/VNS Photo

On the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, the VN-Index lost 1.35 per cent to close at 1,502.35 points. It had edged up 0.19 per cent to close Wednesday at 1.522.90 points.

The market breadth was negative with 372 stocks falling and 89 rising.

Liquidity was at a low level with more than VND27 trillion (US$1.18 billion) poured into the southern market, equivalent to a trading volume of over 795 million shares.

The index's decrease was due to declines in pillar stocks. Accordingly, the VN30-Index lost 0.97 per cent, to 1,541.96 points.

Six of the 30 biggest stocks in capitalisation on HoSE posted gains, while 24 slid.

In the VN-30 basket, the worst performers were Vinhomes (VHM), Hoa Phat Group (HPG), Mobile World Group (MWG), Bao Viet Holdings (BVH) and Refrigeration Electrical Engineering Corporation (REE), PetroVietnam Gas JSC (GAS), Masan Group (MSN), Novaland (NVL), Phat Dat Real Estate (PDR), Phu Nhuan Jewelry (PNJ), Mobile World Group (MWG), Sabeco (SAB) and SSI Securities Inc (SSI).

Banking stocks fell and put great pressure on the overall market, with losers including Sai Gon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (STB), Sai Gon-Ha Noi Bank (SHB), Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BID), Vietinbank (CTG), VPBank (VPB), Techcombank (TCB), Tien Phong Bank (TPB) and Lien Viet Post Bank (LPB).

The shares of the 'Vin' family performed poorly as IT-real-estate-manufacturing-retail conglomerate Vingroup (VIC) and real estate giant Vinhomes (VHM) dropped.

Vingroup (VIC) dropped 1.2 per cent and Vinhomes (VHM) was down 1.7 per cent.

According to data from the Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD), domestic investors opened 270,217 new securities accounts in March, an all-time record and far surpassing the old peak reached in December 2021. Individual investors opened 270,011 new accounts in addition to 206 accounts from institutional investors.

On the Ha Noi Stock Exchange, the HNX-Index lost by 1.17 per cent to end at 441.61 points. The northern bourse’s index had lost 2.03 per cent to end Wednesday at 446.83 points.

Liquidity on the northern exchange declined with 86 million shares worth VND2.8 trillion being traded.