The Nigerian Change (NGX) launched its January 2026 dealer efficiency report, rating stockbroking corporations by transaction quantity and worth, throughout a month during which the market gained 6.27%.
Though stockbrokers don’t sometimes decide market course, they play a vital position in facilitating liquidity by executing trades for buyers responding to market situations and developments.
In keeping with the report, prime brokers traded 14.4 billion shares in January, representing 45.13% of whole quantity, barely beneath the 15.4 billion shares recorded in January 2025.
Nevertheless, in worth phrases, exercise was stronger, with the highest 10 stockbroking corporations executing N457.7 billion in trades, accounting for 52.88% of whole market worth.
This represents a major rise from N341.6 billion in January 2025, indicating that larger, extra impactful trades drove exercise, not simply greater buying and selling volumes.
This text prioritizes transaction worth, because it higher displays the size and market impression of trades reasonably than merely the variety of transactions executed.
Under are the best-performing stockbroking corporations by transaction worth for the interval spanning 1 January 2026 to 30 January 2026.
The Bridge Securities Restricted claimed the tenth spot by transaction worth in January 2026, executing trades value N17.3 billion.
- This marks a notable entry to the rankings, because the dealer was absent from the listing throughout the identical month final yr.
- Its trades accounted for two.00% of the whole market worth of N865 billion and represented 3.79% of the N457.7 billion dealt with by the highest 10 brokers that month.
Whereas the dealer’s facilitated quantity didn’t place it among the many prime 10 by quantity, its place on the worth listing signifies that the shares it dealt with had been important in financial phrases.
