ISLAMABAD: The KSE 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed bullish trend on Monday, gaining 512.39 points, with a positive change of 1.08 per cent, closing at 48,112.21 points against 47,599.82 points on the last working day.

A total of 397,696,788 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 299,134,001 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs14.855 billion against Rs13.067 billion the previous day.

As many as 494 companies’ transacted shares in the stock market, 331 of them recorded gain and 144 sustained losses whereas the share price of 19 companies remained unchanged.

The three top traded companies were Hum Network with a volume of 35,383,500 shares and price per share of Rs7.20, Bank of Punjab with a volume of 22,279,000 and price per share of Rs8.33 and Ghani Glo Hol with volume of 19,880,500 and price per share of Rs46.93.

Rafhan Maize witnessed maximum increase of Rs300 per share, closing at Rs10000. Unilever Foods was runner up, share prices of which increased by Rs 260.01, closing at Rs17560.

Bata (Pak) recorded a maximum decrease of Rs 88.41 per share, closing at Rs1660 followed by Colgate Palm the prices of which declined by Rs 64.75 per share, closing at Rs2715.25.