Cocoa Processing jumped 40.8 per cent in a week that saw the GSE Composite Index ease 0.29 per cent to 13,960.40 points.

Published 13 Nov 2026, 16:33 GMT

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The Ghana Stock Exchange closed the week lower, with the composite index settling at 13,960.40 points on Friday, down 0.29 per cent from the previous Friday.

The benchmark index shed 39.97 points across the week, almost all of it on Friday, when it fell 36.03 points. The Financial Stocks Index lost 1.66 per cent to end at 7,148.52 points.

Tuesday's session in GCB Bank dominated trading, with GH¢51.2 million of its shares changing hands in a single day. The bank's price fell GH¢1.73 that day to GH¢40.00, on volume of 1.28 million shares.

Biggest movers this week

Cocoa Processing Company: up 40.8 per cent to GH¢0.69
Digicut Advertising and Production: up 11.4 per cent to GH¢0.39
Dannex Ayrton Starwin: up 5.8 per cent to GH¢1.10
Hords: down 18.7 per cent to GH¢0.61
First Atlantic Bank: down 9.5 per cent to GH¢7.60, all of it on Friday
Clydestone (Ghana): down 6.8 per cent to GH¢3.59
Societe Generale Ghana: down 5.4 per cent to GH¢4.40

CalBank inched up 1.3 per cent to GH¢0.76 and MTN Ghana added 0.5 per cent to GH¢6.61. GCB Bank ended the week 4.9 per cent lower at GH¢39.95, while SIC Insurance fell 3.2 per cent to GH¢4.50 and Kasapreko slipped 2.2 per cent to GH¢1.74.

The soft week barely dents a strong year. The composite index is up 59.2 per cent since the end of 2025, and the financial index is up 53.8 per cent.

Prices quoted are the exchange's volume-weighted closing prices, published in its daily trading data. This is the first edition of GSE Close, our Friday wrap of the Ghana Stock Exchange.

Araba IncoomAraba Incoom writes on multiple topics with a vast knowledge across different sector. You can almost call me an AI, after all, my initials are Araba Incoom.

GSE Close: Cocoa Processing jumps 41% in a week as the market dips

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