Nigerian listings by sector
The Nigerian Exchange publishes an industry sector alongside every price it puts out. No other market we track does, so this page is Nigeria and nothing else — and the sectors on it are the exchange’s own labels, not ours.
This page covers Nigeria only
147 of 726 listingsEvery sector on this page comes from the Nigerian Exchange’s own price feed, which publishes an industry sector alongside each security. It is the only market we track that does. So this is a view of 147 Nigerian listings — 20% of the 726 we hold — and it is not a picture of African sectors. The other 579 listings carry no sector at all.
They are blank because their exchanges do not publish one, and we will not invent one. There are only two ways to fill that column. The first is to guess from the company name, which gets banks and breweries right and then quietly files a diversified holding company, an exchange-traded fund and a property trust wherever the string match landed. The second is to use a licensed classification — GICS or ICB — which cannot be redistributed on a public site under their terms, and which we have no licence to.
An invented sector does not stay in its column. It flows into every figure computed on top of it: a sector total, a sector average, a sentence like “financials led the market today”. Those numbers would look exactly like measurements while being partly a naming convention we made up, and a reader would have no way to tell which part was which. A blank column is honest about itself. A wrong one is not.
| Market with no sector published | Listings |
|---|---|
| JSE · South Africa | 439 |
| BRVM · UEMOA (8 countries) | 47 |
| EGX · Egypt | 43 |
| BSE · Botswana | 29 |
| USE · Uganda | 21 |
| Total unclassified | 579 |
NGX, this session
the whole classified boardThere is no market capitalisation on this page, and that is not an omission. The NGX feed publishes no shares outstanding, so a market cap cannot be computed for a single one of these 147 companies — and a market-cap-weighted sector change cannot be computed either. Sectors are therefore ranked by turnover, the money that actually changed hands in this session, and the aggregate move is weighted the same way. Substituting turnover weighting silently under the label a reader expects would be the dishonest version of this page.
One session is not a structure. Financial Services took 44% of the day’s turnover, and a single listing — TRANSCOHOT — took 21% on its own. Turnover measures where attention went today, not how large these sectors are. A different day reorders this table, and nothing here should be read as a ranking of the Nigerian economy.
Nigeria by sector
13 sectors · 147 listings| Share | Best today | Worst today | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rank 1:Financial Services39 of 43 traded · 4 report no volume | 43 | $9.4M | 43.9% | +2.24% 39 of 43 weighted | +0.58% over 39 that traded | FIRSTHOLDCO +7.41% | AVACAP -7.14% |
Rank 2:Services18 of 20 traded · 2 report no volume | 20 | $4.7M | 22.0% | +9.46% 18 of 20 weighted | +1.92% over 18 that traded | TRANSCOHOT +9.76% | CAVERTON -3.45% |
Rank 3:Oil and Gasall traded | 7 | $2.7M | 12.6% | +5.16% | -0.13% | SEPLAT +10.00% | TOTAL -10.00% |
Rank 4:ICT8 of 9 traded · 1 report no volume | 9 | $1.8M | 8.3% | -0.91% 8 of 9 weighted | +0.62% over 8 that traded | OMATEK +9.49% | ETRANZACT -8.62% |
Rank 5:Industrial Goodsall traded | 11 | $892.8K | 4.2% | -0.03% | -0.82% | CUTIX -1.65% | AUSTINLAZ -7.41% |
Rank 6:Utilitiesall traded | 2 | $698.1K | 3.3% | 0.00% | 0.00% | — none moved | — none moved |
Rank 7:Consumer Goods17 of 19 traded · 2 report no volume | 19 | $566.2K | 2.6% | +0.55% 17 of 19 weighted | -0.54% over 17 that traded | GUINNESS +2.34% | MCNICHOLS -6.25% |
Rank 8:Agricultureall traded | 6 | $399.7K | 1.9% | +0.25% | +1.34% | ELLAHLAKES +5.33% | FTNCOCOA +2.70% |
Rank 9:Conglomeratesall traded | 6 | $165.3K | 0.8% | +0.38% | +0.37% | CUSTODIAN +2.23% | CUSTODIAN +2.23% |
Rank 10:Healthcare4 of 7 traded · 3 report no volume | 7 | $60.6K | 0.3% | +1.48% 4 of 7 weighted | +1.05% over 4 that traded | NEIMETH +2.63% | FIDSON +1.58% |
Rank 11:Construction / Real Estate9 of 12 traded · 3 report no volume | 12 | $18.4K | 0.1% | -0.53% 9 of 12 weighted | -0.98% over 9 that traded | HMCALL -8.78% | HMCALL -8.78% |
Rank 12:Investmentall traded | 1 | $10.5K | 0.0% | -3.42% | -3.42% | VFDGROUP -3.42% | VFDGROUP -3.42% |
Rank 13:Natural Resources3 of 4 traded · 1 report no volume | 4 | $2.4K | 0.0% | 0.00% 3 of 4 weighted | 0.00% over 3 that traded | — none moved | — none moved |
| All 147 listings | 147 | $21.4M | 100% | +3.66% | +0.35% | NGX All-Share Index, which NGX weights by market value, moved +0.20% — a third figure, on a basis we cannot reproduce from this feed. | |
Ordered by turnover, highest first. Money that changed hands in this one session: shares traded times price, converted to dollars. This is the default order because it is the only measure of scale this feed supports — NGX publishes no shares outstanding, so no market capitalisation can be computed for any of these companies.
Where the sector comes from
provenanceThe exchange’s own price feed. Nigerian Exchange returns a sector field on each security in the same response that carries the price, the volume and the board. We store that string and change nothing about it. It is not derived from the company name, not matched against a third-party database, and not filled in by hand where it was missing.
The feed writes sector names in capitals. They are rendered here in title case, which is the only change made to them — no name is merged with another, split, renamed or reordered, and expanding any sector shows the exact string the exchange published beside the heading. NGX decides what these categories mean and which company belongs in which; we do not.
That also means the categories are Nigeria’s, not a global standard. “ICT” and “Conglomerates” are NGX groupings and do not line up with the sector names used on American or European markets, so a comparison across those lines would be a comparison of two different schemes. What each source supplies.
How to read this page
The two day-change columns answer different questions. Weighted day weights each listing by the money traded in it, so it describes the average move of a dollar that changed hands in the sector. Equal-weighted counts every listing that traded once, so it describes the average member. On this snapshot Services is +9.46% weighted and +1.92% equal-weighted — 7.54 points apart. Neither figure is more correct than the other; they are answers to different questions, and a page that published only one would invite you to assume the other.
Turnover is one session. It is shares traded times price, converted to dollars — the same definition used on Movers and in the screener, so the word means one thing across the site. NGX also publishes its own naira turnover per security, struck on the day’s average price rather than the close; across this board it comes within 1.4% of the figure shown here. Only one of the two is used, and it is the one named above.
Absent is not zero. 16 of these listings report no volume figure at all, so whether they traded is unknown rather than no. They carry no weight in the weighted column and are not counted in the equal-weighted average. A sector where nothing moved shows an em dash and says so, never a flat 0%.
The exchange’s index is a third number. NGX All-Share Index is weighted by market value, which this feed does not give us, so it will not reconcile with either column here. It is shown in the table footer as context, not as a total. More on the NGX and what each source supplies.