Markets
The Nepal Stock Exchange each month: how much traded, which sectors moved and how concentrated trading was. Market level only; we do not rank or recommend securities.
September 2026 in brief
- Turnover averaged NPR 5.00 billion a session over 18 sessions, up 21% on August 2026.
- Commercial banks had the strongest equal-weight return, +5.9%; Investment the weakest, −5.5%.
- In the 63 sessions to 8 October 2026, the top 46 of 451 traded securities took 54.4% of turnover.
Turnover per session
Averaging per session removes the effect of holidays and short months, which a monthly total hides.
Sector returns, last twelve months
Each cell is the average return of the sector's companies that month, every company weighted equally. Rows run from the sector with the most turnover to the least.
| Sector | Oct ’25 | Nov ’25 | Dec ’25 | Jan ’26 | Feb ’26 | Mar ’26 | Apr ’26 | May ’26 | Jun ’26 | Jul ’26 | Aug ’26 | Sep ’26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydropower | −4.1% | +1.1% | −1.6% | +9.5% | −3.8% | +5.5% | −1.4% | +3.0% | −9.6% | +0.7% | −9.2% | +4.0% |
| Manufacturing | −2.3% | +3.8% | +8.7% | +16.4% | −3.0% | +31.3% | −2.2% | −0.4% | −11.0% | +2.4% | −2.9% | +1.4% |
| Commercial banks | −2.4% | +1.0% | −0.5% | +1.3% | −1.3% | +9.5% | −4.2% | +2.5% | −4.9% | +6.1% | −5.4% | +5.9% |
| Development banks | −4.3% | +1.0% | +2.2% | +8.2% | −4.8% | +17.7% | −4.4% | −1.8% | −6.8% | +1.2% | −7.8% | −3.1% |
| Others | −2.8% | +2.5% | +7.0% | +9.3% | −5.9% | +0.4% | −8.3% | +1.7% | −12.3% | +1.1% | −13.2% | +1.5% |
| Microfinance | −2.9% | −0.1% | +1.9% | +1.7% | −3.3% | +4.7% | −7.0% | +0.5% | −4.2% | −1.4% | −7.5% | +2.4% |
| Investment | −1.4% | +0.5% | −4.2% | +5.1% | −1.9% | +3.7% | −6.8% | +0.5% | −7.4% | +2.1% | −6.4% | −5.5% |
| Finance companies | −5.7% | +1.8% | +1.0% | +10.1% | −4.9% | +4.7% | −7.5% | +1.0% | +0.5% | +2.1% | −9.4% | −2.2% |
| Life insurance | +1.2% | +4.4% | −3.4% | +1.7% | −2.0% | +2.2% | −7.3% | +2.7% | −5.5% | +0.1% | −8.8% | +5.6% |
| Hotels & tourism | −6.0% | +0.2% | −1.7% | +7.4% | −2.0% | +1.5% | +19.0% | −0.7% | −7.6% | +0.6% | −7.3% | −1.2% |
| Non-life insurance | −1.7% | +0.9% | −0.6% | +1.7% | −1.5% | +4.7% | −7.2% | +2.4% | −2.2% | +0.8% | −15.1% | +2.5% |
| Trading | −1.3% | +0.3% | +1.4% | +0.8% | +0.3% | +4.3% | −3.2% | +2.8% | −10.3% | +0.9% | −3.1% | +5.2% |
Method and downloads
All figures on this page come from NEPSE's security-level daily trading records, loaded nightly. Our summed turnover matches NEPSE's published daily market turnover on every one of the 224 sessions where both are available. Full-market records in our database begin on 9 June 2025; an earlier, partial segment is excluded.