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Investment Banks & Securities Stocks
35 listed companies on the Pakistan Stock Exchange — what drives them, how they did today, and how they compare.
As of closeSource: Pakistan Stock ExchangeEnd-of-day figures, not a live trading feed
Sector today Sector moveThe sector's average price change today across its listed companies. Read it next to breadth — how many of those companies actually rose and fell. Glossary
▲ +0.48%
▲ 15 ▼ 16 · 4 flat
In plain English
What drives Investment Banks & Securities on the PSX
Brokerages and investment banks earn commission on traded volume and fees on advisory and capital-market transactions. Neither revenue line is contractual, so earnings track market activity rather than the level of the market: a flat index on heavy volume is a good year, a rising index on thin volume is not. Costs are largely fixed staff and technology, so operating leverage runs in both directions.
What to watch
- Traded value on the exchange — the single largest determinant, and more informative than the index level.
- The new-issue and advisory pipeline, which reopens when valuations and rates make issuance attractive.
- Interest rates, which both fund margin lending and compete with equities for the same money.
- Proprietary book exposure, where a firm carries market risk on its own balance sheet alongside the fee business.
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Investment Banks & Securities at a glance
The sector's size, its typical valuation and today's breadth.
- Companies
- 35
- Combined market cap Market capitalisationShare price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding — what the market says the whole company is worth. Use it, not the share price, to compare the size of two businesses. Glossary
- Rs 643.4B 3.5% of the market
- Median P/E Median P/EThe middle P/E among a sector's profitable companies: half are cheaper, half dearer. Unlike an average, one extreme company cannot drag it. Glossary
- 8.0
- Median dividend yield Median dividend yieldThe middle dividend yield among a sector's dividend payers. Companies that paid nothing are left out, so it describes a typical payer, not the whole sector. Glossary
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- Breadth today Market breadthHow many stocks rose (advancers) against how many fell (decliners). An index rising while most stocks fall means a few heavyweights are carrying it. Glossary
▲ 15 ▼ 16 · 4 flat
What this means: A split session — risers and fallers were roughly balanced, so the average hides a lot.
Best performers today
Worst performers today
All Investment Banks & Securities shares
Largest first by market value. Tap a heading to sort.
| Signal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGROHEngro Holdings Limited | 255.63 | ▲ +2.59% | Rs 307.8B | 32.7 | — | Strongly bearish |
| PIAHCLAPIA Holding Company Limited | 22.97 | ▲ +1.59% | Rs 120.2B | 3.7 | — | Bearish |
| DLLDawood Lawrencepur Limited | 42.40 | ▲ +1.27% | Rs 34.0B | 0.2 | — | Strongly bearish |
| PSXPakistan Stock Exchange Limited | 40.67 | ▲ +0.54% | Rs 32.6B | 15.5 | — | Strongly bearish |
| IMSIntermarket Securities Limited | 17.20 | ▼ −0.58% | Rs 22.1B | 46.5 | — | Strongly bearish |
| PIAHCLBPIA Holding Company LimitedB | 13,950.00 | ▲ +2.94% | Rs 20.9B | — | — | Strongly bearish |
| JSCLJahangir Siddiqui & Co. Ltd. | 19.01 | ▼ −3.21% | Rs 17.4B | 65.6 | — | Strongly bearish |
| AKDSLAKD Securities Limited | 29.44 | ▼ −0.54% | Rs 16.4B | 2.9 | — | Strongly bearish |
| AMBLApna Microfinance Bank Limited | 19.34 | ▼ −0.82% | Rs 10.5B | 5.0 | — | Strongly bearish |
| MCBIMMCB Investment Management Limited. | 119.50 | ▼ −4.40% | Rs 8.6B | 6.5 | — | Strongly bearish |
| OLPLOLP Financial Services Pakistan Limited | 45.82 | ▲ +1.01% | Rs 8.0B | 5.9 | — | Strongly bearish |
| FCIBLFirst Credit and Investment Bank Limited | 116.61 | ▲ +9.41% | Rs 7.6B | 114.3 | — | Strongly bullish |
| AHLArif Habib Limited | 105.11 | ▲ +0.20% | Rs 6.9B | 5.7 | — | Strongly bearish |
| LSEVLLSE Ventures Limited | 11.76 | ▲ +0.26% | Rs 4.7B | 3.2 | — | Strongly bearish |
| JSGCLJS Global Capital Limited | 133.56 | ▼ −2.69% | Rs 3.7B | 5.7 | — | Strongly bearish |
| FNELFirst National Equities Limited | 1.12 | 0.00% | Rs 3.0B | 11.2 | — | Strongly bearish |
| IMLImperial Limited | 23.97 | 0.00% | Rs 2.4B | 63.1 | — | Strongly bearish |
| JSILJS Investments Limited | 34.34 | 0.00% | Rs 2.1B | 6.6 | — | Strongly bearish |
| LSECLLSE Capital Limited. | 5.09 | ▼ −0.59% | Rs 2.0B | 4.8 | — | Strongly bearish |
| FCSCFirst Capital Securities Corporation | 5.69 | ▲ +3.45% | Rs 1.8B | 1.3 | — | Strongly bullish |
| ESBLEscorts Investment Bank Limited | 12.82 | ▼ −1.76% | Rs 1.7B | 23.7 | — | Strongly bullish |
| TSBLTrust Securities & Brokerage Limited | 2.19 | 0.00% | Rs 1.6B | 9.5 | — | Strongly bearish |
| NEXTNext Capital Limited | 19.00 | ▲ +5.38% | Rs 1.1B | 12.3 | — | Strongly bullish |
| PASLPervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd. | 4.40 | ▲ +19.89% | Rs 0.8B | 51.2 | — | Strongly bullish |
| FCELFirst Capital Equities Limited | 4.67 | ▼ −0.21% | Rs 0.7B | 14.2 | — | Strongly bearish |
| ICIBLInvest Capital Investment Bank Limited | 15.30 | ▼ −3.83% | Rs 0.7B | 6.4 | — | Strongly bearish |
| FDPLFirst Dawood Properties Limited | 4.26 | ▼ −2.29% | Rs 0.6B | 99.1 | — | Strongly bearish |
| LSEFSLLSE Financial Services Limited. | 2.25 | ▼ −4.26% | Rs 0.6B | 2.3 | — | Strongly bearish |
| ARMGARM Green Industries Limited | 52.61 | ▲ +2.61% | Rs 0.6B | 44.6 | — | Bearish |
| SPAC1LSE SPAC-I Limited | 21.06 | ▼ −2.09% | Rs 0.5B | 3.5 | — | Strongly bullish |
| DELDawood Equities Limited | 15.17 | ▼ −2.07% | Rs 0.4B | 5.8 | — | Strongly bearish |
| 786786 Investments Limited | 20.01 | ▲ +0.25% | Rs 0.4B | 91.0 | — | Strongly bearish |
| SIBLSecurity Investment Bank Limited | 6.58 | ▲ +2.81% | Rs 0.4B | 95.4 | — | Strongly bearish |
| SPAC2LSE SPAC-II Limited | 16.26 | ▼ −6.98% | Rs 0.3B | — | — | Strongly bullish |
| LSEFSLRLSE Financial Services Limited Right | 0.78 | ▼ −1.27% | Rs 0.1B | — | — | Neutral |
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- Cement+0.43%
- Chemical+1.10%
- Chemicals−0.52%
- Close-End Mutual Fund−0.11%
- Commercial Banks+0.66%
- Engineering+1.33%
- Exchange Traded Funds+0.91%
- Fertilizer+2.04%
- Food & Personal Care+0.88%
- Food & Personal Care Products+0.23%
- Glass & Ceramics+0.19%
- Insurance+0.89%
- Leasing Companies+5.36%
- Leather & Tanneries−0.36%
- Miscellaneous−0.14%
- Modarabas+0.42%
- Oil & Gas Exploration+0.66%
- Oil & Gas Marketing+0.17%
- Paper, Board & Packaging−3.33%
- Pharmaceuticals+0.63%
- Power Generation & Distribution+0.56%
- Real Estate Investment Trust−0.10%
- Refinery+5.30%
- Synthetic & Rayon+2.50%
- Technology & Communication+1.82%
- Textile Composite+1.98%
- Textile Spinning−1.24%
- Textile Weaving−2.56%
- Tobacco+0.43%
- Transport+3.43%
- Vanaspati & Allied Industries−1.17%
- Woollen+1.60%
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