The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) continued its strong performance in October 2025, with 15 companies recording gains. This keeps the GSE on track as one of Africa’s best-performing stock markets this year.
According to the October 2025 Market Summary, trading activity on the equity market remained robust, indicating that investor confidence remains high.
The biggest price increases for the month came from: Clydestone Ghana (64.71%), Societe Generale (63.94%), Fan Milk (49.53%), Cocoa Processing Company (33.33%), Ecobank Ghana (28.67%), Guinness Ghana (20.66%), GCB Bank (20.35%), SIC Insurance (14.29%), GOIL (9.66%), TotalEnergies (9.46%), Ecobank Transnational (8.79%), Enterprise Group (7.81%), Republic Bank (5.04%), Standard Chartered (3.89%) and Benso Palm Plantation (3.15%)
Stocks that lost value include CalBank (-23.44%), NewGold (-6.48%), Scancom (MTN Ghana) (-3.45%), Mega African Capital (-3.35%), Unilever Ghana (-1%), and Access Bank Ghana (-0.86%)
The market’s main indicators showed strong growth as the GSE Composite Index went up by 2.66% to 8,385.35 points, bringing its year-to-date return to 71.53%.
The GSE Financial Stock Index rose by 10.39% to 4,193.90 points, with a year-to-date return of 76.16%.
In total, 44.12 million shares worth GHS 217.21 million were traded on the stock market in October.
Although the number of shares traded fell slightly by 4.04%, the value of trades increased by 14.75%, meaning more high-value stocks changed hands.
Trading on the Ghana Fixed Income Market (GFIM) also improved in October as Treasury bills made up 44.31% of all trades. Government Bonds and Notes made up 42.60%, Bank of Ghana Bills, 11.72% and Corporate Bonds at 1.37%
Total volume traded on the fixed income market reached 29.13 billion, a 4.66% increase from September.
Compared to the same period last year, fixed income trading rose by 77.23%, showing strong investor interest.
So far in 2025, total fixed income trades have reached 214.14 billion, up 58.39% from last year.
Source:https://citinewsroom.com/
