ISLAMABAD: The KSE-100 index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) Tuesday witnessed bullish trend, gaining 199.74 points, with positive change of 0.43 percent, closing at 46,287.38 points against 46,087.64 points on the last working day.

A total 603,240,345 shares were traded during the day compared to the trade of 470,060,457 shares the previous day whereas the price of shares stood at Rs26.801 billion against Rs21.046 billion previous day.

As many as 413 companies’ transacted shares in the stock market, 199 of them recorded gain and 203 sustained losses whereas the share price of 11 companies remained unchanged.

The three top traded companies were JS Bank Ltd with a volume of 65,348,500 shares and price per share of Rs7.51, TRG Pak Ltd with a volume of 36,198,000 and price per share of Rs114.93 and Fauji Fert Bin Ltd with a volume of 36,024,500 and price per share of Rs28.78.

Colgate Palm recorded maximum increase of Rs75.01 per share, closing at Rs3175 whereas Nestle Pakistan was runner up with the increase of Rs50 per share, closing at Rs6470.

Rafhan Maize witnessed maximum decrease of Rs390 per share, closing at Rs10500 while Mitchells Fruit shares decreased by Rs32.56 per share closing at Rs439.15.