After many sessions, VN-Index fluctuated sharply, alternately increased and decreased, making it difficult for investors to predict the short-term trend. Today, the stock market is quite gloomy, as investors mostly choose to stay out of the market.
Opening the morning session, the VN-Index started slowly at the reference level, investors’ sounding psychology caused the VN-Index to increase and decrease continuously during the morning session and lasted until the early afternoon session. After the drop below the reference level at around 13:30, the positive cash flow from investors flowed into the market, helping the VN-Index jump to the highest point of the day.
At the end of the session, the VN-Index increased by 6.84 points to 1,216.36 points. The other two exchanges, HNX and UPCoM, also increased by 0.67 points and 0.94 points to 227.49 points and 89.7 points, respectively.
Positive cash flow participated in the market at the end of the afternoon session, helping the green color spread to most industry groups in today’s trading session, albeit with a small margin.
The technology and information group grew the strongest in today’s trading session with 3.2%, when the Top 3 pillar stocks of this group increased by around 3%, including: FPT + 3.33%, CTR + 2.82% and CMR + 3.36%. In addition, this group also recorded 2 stocks hitting the ceiling price, ABR + 6.92% and BST + 9.63%.
On the contrary, securities stocks were in the red in today’s trading session, when the number of stocks falling in price was 4.5 times higher than that of stocks rising.
Most of the pillar stocks of the securities stock group decreased in price from 1 – 2% such as SSI -1.42%, VND -1.69%, VCI – 1.38%, BSI -1.17%, CTS -1.69%, VDS -1.09%, … This group only recorded 4 stocks with a price increase, IVS + 1.77%, TCI + 0.9%, TVS + 2.13% and VIG + 1.41%.
The group of banking stocks and real estate stocks, although holding the green color, but with a small amplitude, increased by 0.07% and 0.50%, respectively.
The stock AAV of AAV Group Joint Stock Company (HNX exchange) continues to attract attention when it has the 6th ceiling price increase in the last 8 sessions (only 1 session with stable price). At the end of the session on May 2, AAV’s stock price was at VND 5,300/share, an 8.16% increase compared to the previous trading session, the volume of shares traded was nearly 1.4 million units.
Thus, if calculated from the recent drop in the session on April 16 at VND 3,000/share, AAV’s stock price has increased by 76.7%, equivalent to an increase of VND 2,300/share.
Today, foreign investors sold more than VND 1,000 billion net on all 3 exchanges, and on the HoSE alone, foreign investors sold more than VND 900 billion net today.
Of which, BWE stock was sold the most net by foreign investors with a value of over VND 514 billion, followed by FUESSVFL stock (nearly VND 130 billion), and SSI stock (nearly VND 1.03 billion). On the contrary, foreign investors net bought MWG stock for over VND 243 billion, BID stock (VND 54.5 billion), VNM stock (nearly VND 35.9 billion), …
The total transaction value on all 3 exchanges today is over VND 16,000 billion, while liquidity on the HoSE alone reached nearly VND 14,400 billion. This is a low liquidity level, nearly equal to the trading session on April 25, a day when the stock market was closed for the holiday.