A worked guide to buying a listed share.
From the broker account to shares recorded in your name: the chain, the order rules and the arithmetic of a budget, with ten PSX companies read from the exchange's own pages at the 6 November 2026 close.
Ten PSX shares: close, change and place in the 52-week range
Each row is one reading: the close, the change against the previous close, and where the close sits between the 52-week low (0) and the 52-week high (100). Brokerage, taxes and charges are not included.
| Code | Company | Close | Change | Place in the 52-week range (0 = low, 100 = high) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OGDC | Oil & Gas Development Company Limited | 312.89 | −1.06% | 65.6 |
| UBL | United Bank Limited | 425.34 | −1.63% | 59.0 |
| MEBL | Meezan Bank Limited | 550.25 | −0.86% | 71.9 |
| FFC | Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited | 562.62 | −0.55% | 43.1 |
| MARI | Mari Energies Limited | 651.98 | −0.66% | 51.0 |
| LUCK | Lucky Cement Limited | 427.23 | −1.70% | 46.3 |
| PPL | Pakistan Petroleum Limited | 217.96 | −1.51% | 34.4 |
| MCB | MCB Bank Limited | 399.48 | −0.90% | 51.3 |
| HBL | Habib Bank Limited | 299.89 | −0.95% | 47.9 |
| ENGROH | Engro Holdings Limited | 272.41 | −1.09% | 67.8 |
Session of 6 November 2026. Read from PSX Data Portal + TradingView screener on 6 November 2026.
From the account to the holding
Open an account
What opening a share account in Pakistan involves: a PSX broker, the NCCPL UIN and the CDC account where the shares are held in your name.
02Price board
Ten PSX companies at the 6 November 2026 close: where each close sits in its 52-week range, and the change on the previous close.
03Budget
Cost of one share and the number of shares that Rs 25,000, Rs 100,000 and Rs 1,000,000 buy for ten PSX companies at the 6 November 2026 close.
04Orders and prices
Market and limit orders, the circuit-breaker band, XD days and the price step for ten PSX companies at the 6 November 2026 reading.
05Settlement
From a matched order to shares in your CDC account: clearing at NCCPL, the ready market, book closure and the XD marker, with the XD companies of the day listed.
06Company pages
What each figure on a company page means and how it is worked out, using OGDC at the 6 November 2026 close.
What is on this page, and what is not
This site answers one question before a first purchase of a share on the Pakistan Stock Exchange: how much money has to be ready, and through which accounts that money becomes shares in your name. The board above holds ten companies (OGDC, UBL, MEBL, FFC, MARI, LUCK, PPL, MCB, HBL, ENGROH) with the close of the session of 6 November 2026, the change on the previous close, and the place of the close in its 52-week range.
What is not here: recommendations, target prices, ratings, real-time quotes, forecasts. The site is not a broker, opens no accounts and takes no money. What is here is arithmetic you can check and an explanation of the chain from a bank account to a share account.
From your bank to a share in your name
An order does not go from you to the exchange. It goes to a broker, the broker sends it to PSX, and a matched trade is cleared by the National Clearing Company of Pakistan (NCCPL) and settled in the Central Depository Company (CDC), where the shares sit in an account in your name. So three things are opened for you: the broker account, the UIN that identifies you in the market, and the CDC account that holds the shares.
The chain has four steps. You open the accounts. You move money to the broker. You send an order. After settlement the shares are recorded in your account. Each step has a page: opening the account, orders and price rules, and settlement and ownership.
How to read the board
The close is the last price of the session of 6 November 2026. The change compares it with the previous close. The last column puts the close between the 52-week low and the 52-week high on a scale of 0 to 100. On that session all 10 companies closed lower than the previous close; the smallest fall was FFC (−0.55%) and the largest LUCK (−1.70%).
None of the 10 closes is in the lowest or the highest quarter of its own 52-week range: the lowest place is PPL at 34.4 of 100 and the highest MEBL at 71.9.
Ten companies by place in the 52-week range
The cost of one share
Prices are quoted per share, and this site counts the budget in single shares, because the PSX company page does not print a lot size. On the 6 November 2026 close the cheapest is PPL at Rs 217.96 per share and the dearest MARI at Rs 651.98, which is 3.0 times as much.
One share of each of the ten would cost Rs 4,120.05 together before costs.
A worked example: Rs 50,000 and UBL
Take a budget of Rs 50,000 and United Bank Limited (UBL). Its close is Rs 425.34, so one share costs Rs 425.34. The budget divided by that is 117.55, rounded down to 117: 117 shares worth Rs 49,764.78, with Rs 235.22 left in cash before costs.
The same sum for every company and six budgets is on the budget page; the company page has it for one company.
Which record is kept by whom
The records that exist once a purchase has settled.
| Record | Kept by | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Contract note | The broker | States price, quantity, charges and settlement date |
| UIN | NCCPL, through the broker | Identifies you to the clearing house |
| Holding | CDC | Records how many shares are in your name |
XD, the band and the previous close
5 of the ten companies carry the XD marker on the PSX page: MEBL, FFC, PPL, MCB, HBL. XD means the shares are trading without the right to a declared dividend, and PSX adjusts the previous close it prints (the LDCP) accordingly. For 1 of them the second source, which uses the raw previous close, shows a different change: FFC (−0.55% on PSX, −3.70% against the raw previous close). For the other XD names the two sources agree on this reading.
The band PSX prints for the day is 10.0% either side of the previous close on all ten. It limits how far the price can move in the session; it is not an estimate of how far it will.
The ten by market value
By the market value PSX prints, the largest of the ten is OGDC at 1,345.7 bn and the smallest ENGROH at 328.0 bn; the order is OGDC, UBL, MEBL, FFC, MARI, LUCK, PPL, MCB, HBL, ENGROH. Market value is the number of shares in issue times the price, so it moves with the price every session.
A large market value says a company is large at the price of the day. It does not say the shares are cheap or dear, and it does not say how easily they trade; for that the free float below is the nearer figure.
P/E ratios on the PSX pages
PSX prints a trailing price-to-earnings ratio for each company, on unconsolidated financials. Among the ten it runs from 5.13 (OGDC) to 34.79 (ENGROH). The ratio divides the price by the earnings per share of the past twelve months, so a ratio of 5 means the price is five times those earnings.
The ratio is a description of the price at the time of reading. Companies in different businesses are not comparable on it, and the page does not rank them by it.
Free float
The free float, the share of a company's shares that PSX counts as held by the public, is 15.0% for OGDC and 75.0% for ENGROH, with the rest of the ten in between. The remainder is held by controlling shareholders, governments and other long-term holders.
A small free float means a small part of the company is for sale in the market on any day. It is a fact about ownership and is printed on each company page.
The close is not the price you get
The board shows a finished session. When an order is sent, what counts is the queue at the exchange at that moment. Across one year, PPL has closed anywhere between Rs 183.00 and Rs 284.60, which is a spread of 56 percent from low to high.
So use the board to size a budget. Before sending an order, read the price on your broker's screen, redo the sum with it, and add costs.
Two dates on every table
Each table names two dates that are not the same. The session date (6 November 2026) is the trading day whose close is used. The read date (6 November 2026) is the day the data was read and stored. A gap between them is normal: the exchange closes first and the data is read afterwards.
If you open this page a week from now, both dates stay the same and the figures stay the figures of that session. That is why the page tells you to look at your broker's screen before ordering: the dates on this page are in the past and the market goes on.
Where the figures come from, and how they were checked
The figures are read from the PSX company pages (dps.psx.com.pk), read 6 November 2026, with a second reading from the TradingView public screener the same day. Nothing is typed by hand. Before a record is written, every figure is recounted from the stored pages with separate code, and the close of every company must agree with the second reading to the cent; the change must agree for every company without the XD marker.
The check itself is tested: planted errors (a shifted close, a wrong range, a flipped change, a wrong lot cost) must all be rejected, and the method page lists them.
The same ten by the day's change
Words used on this site
Close: the last price of the session. Previous close: the close of the session before. 52-week range: the lowest and highest price of the past year. Place in the range: the position of the close between them, 0 to 100. UIN: the number that identifies you to the clearing house. CDC: the depository where shares are held in your name. XD: trading without the right to a declared dividend. LDCP: PSX's previous close.
Budget: the money you set aside for the purchase. Remainder: the money left when whole units have been bought.
Five questions before pressing buy
Does the broker hold a trading right from PSX? What does the tariff say about commission and minimums? Does the price on the broker's screen differ from the close on this page, and by how much? Does the quantity fit the budget after costs? Is the order limit on the exchange's price grid, and inside the day's band?
Each of the five has an answer you can find on a screen you already have, which is the point of listing them.
If you are new
Read the account page first, then the budget page, then the page on orders and prices. Open one company page to see how its figures are worked out. Read the method page last, to see what was checked and what was left out on purpose.
None of it needs a calculator beyond the one in your phone; every sum on the site is a division, a multiplication or a subtraction.
What the board does not show
The board has no trading volume, no buy and sell queue, no history of closes and no dividend dates. They are not on it because they were not read for this site, and a figure that was not read is not printed. Your broker's screen shows the queue and the volume as they stand when you look.
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