PSX · PAPER, BOARD & PACKAGING · Explained move
Merit Packaging
On 12 Oct 2026, MERIT fell 3.23% to close at Rs 8.70, on 1.09× its 20-day average volume. It opened 1.33% above the previous close. Its sector moved the same way: the median name fell 0.64%, and 8 of 10 names were down. The KSE-100 fell 1.18% the same day. Across the market, foreign investors bought a net Rs 11.56M, which local investors sold. The move was 1.90× the stock's usual daily move.
Open the chart on 12 Oct 2026
The day's numbers
- Close
- Rs 8.70
- Change on the day
- −3.23%
- Gap at the open
- +1.33%
- Shares traded
- 162,511
- Volume against its 20-day average
- 1.09×
- KSE-100 the same day
- −1.18%
The record's sentence
MERIT closed down 3.2% at Rs 8.70. Its sector's typical stock fell 0.6%; the KSE-100 fell 1.2%. So this was MERIT's own move. 162,511 shares traded, 1.1 times a normal day. MERIT filed nothing that moves a price, that session or the day before.
Source: the explained-move record for the session of 12 Oct 2026, written 17 Oct 2026.
Facts from the exchange. Not advice.