PSX · PAPER, BOARD & PACKAGING · Explained move
Century Paper & Board Mills
On 24 Aug 2026, CEPB rose 4.19% to close at Rs 28.37, on 1.75× its 20-day average volume. It opened 2.24% above the previous close. Its sector moved the other way: the median name fell 1.02%, and 8 of 10 names were down. The KSE-100 fell 0.11% the same day. Across the market, foreign investors sold a net Rs 327.79M, which local investors bought. The move was 1.60× the stock's usual daily move. No filing, sector move or market move in our records accounts for it.
Open the chart on 24 Aug 2026
The day's numbers
- Close
- Rs 28.37
- Change on the day
- +4.19%
- Gap at the open
- +2.24%
- Shares traded
- 1,783,520
- Volume against its 20-day average
- 1.75×
- KSE-100 the same day
- −0.11%
The record's sentence
CEPB closed up 4.2% at Rs 28.37 while the KSE-100 fell 0.1%. Its sector's typical stock fell 1.0%. So this was CEPB's own move. 1.8 million shares traded, 1.8 times a normal day. CEPB filed nothing that moves a price, that session or the day before.
Source: the explained-move record for the session of 24 Aug 2026, written 17 Oct 2026.
Facts from the exchange. Not advice.