The Ghana Stock Exchange Composite Index (GSE-CI) closed October 2026 at 14,302.27 points, up 63.08% since the start of the year, while the value of shares traded in the month rose 58.94% from a year earlier to GHS 345.2 million, according to the exchange's Equities Market Report for October 2026, published on 6 November.
The GSE Financial Stock Index ended the month at 7,388.15, a year-to-date gain of 58.98%. Total market capitalisation stood at GHS 268.15 billion, up 55.86% since January, with domestic capitalisation at GHS 183.25 billion (up 59.75%).
October trading
- Volume: 68.62 million shares, up 55.52% from 44.12 million in October 2025.
- Value: GHS 345.23 million, up 58.94% from GHS 217.21 million.
- Transactions: 88,630, up 59.07% from 55,718.
- Trading days: 22 (23 a year earlier); 35 symbols traded (27).
January to October
Over the first ten months, 1.12 billion shares worth GHS 5.68 billion changed hands, increases of 74.37% in volume and 73.66% in value on the same period of 2025. The number of transactions rose 365.32% to 1,082,362, from 232,604.
October was quieter than the year's average, however. Average daily value traded in the month was GHS 15.69 million, about 42% below the January–October daily average of GHS 27.20 million, and the month averaged 4,029 transactions a day against 5,179 for the year to date (StatsGH calculations from the GSE figures).
The exchange had 38 issuers on the main market and the Ghana Alternative Market at the end of October, up from 36 a year earlier.
JoyBusiness, summarising the report, listed Cocoa Processing Company (35.71%), Meridian Marshalls Holdings (16.67%) and Enterprise Group (14.29%) as the month's biggest gainers, and Dannex Ayrton Starwin (-19.13%), Digicut Production & Advertising (-17.02%) and Ecobank Transnational (-16.76%) as the biggest losers.
Sources: Ghana Stock Exchange, Equities Market Report – October 2026; MyJoyOnline/JoyBusiness; B&FT.