JAKARTA – The stock of PT Pyridam Farma Tbk (PYFA) increased 21.48% and arrived at the top gainers on yesterday’s (19/6) trading session in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). PYFA’s price was seen hitting the lowest at IDR 35 per share during last Friday’s (16/6) session.

The IDX data received by IDNFinancials today (20/6) reveals that PYFA’s price increased IDR 160 to IDR 805 per share from the previous IDR 645 per share. The shift was exponential, turning the tides from last Friday’s decline.

Throughout the session, the traded shares were recorded reaching 499,000 units in 194 transactions worth IDR 396.07 million. The number of traded shares were actually smaller than last week’s record, of 949,300 units within 76 transactions worth IDR 611.69 million.

The trend shown by PYFA’s stock was then utilised by investors by mass-buying the shares. It then resulted in foreign buy of 336,300 shares, way higher than foreign sell of 5,000 shares.

On the other hand, PT Ulima Nitra Tbk (UNIQ) arrived at the runner-up position after scoring 22.86% increase in its price. It was closed at IDR 129 per share, shifting IDR 24 from IDR 105 per share seen last week. Throughout yesterday’s session, it once recorded the lowest price of IDR 105 per share.

Approximately 115.93 million of UNIQ’s shares were being traded in 12,170 transactions worth IDR 14.94 billion yesterday. The increasing trend then triggered mass-buy by foreign investors, as indicated through foreign buy of 2.01 million units, which were higher than foreign sell of 1.45 million shares. (LK/ZH)