For a long time, the experience of researching the Nigerian stock market has been the same loop. You open a stock page, pull up a financial statement, try to make sense of the chart, jump to another tab to compare data, then go back to where you started.

You end up doing all the connecting yourself. But times have changed. The way you get information today is by asking questions and getting answers in plain terms via AI agents like ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

Many of the popular AI agents, however, cannot give accurate answers about the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) because they lack access to all the data in real time. This is why at NGN Market we are bridging the gap by launching an AI analyst.

What we built

We built an AI analyst (not a chatbot) that is connected directly to NGN Market's data infrastructure and designed specifically for the Nigerian financial market.

Before this system writes a single word in response to your question, it calls live data such as live stock prices, real financial ratios from actual filings, current sector movements, how the naira is moving against major currencies today, what the news says. Only after it has the real numbers and information does it actually answer you.

This means it cannot hallucinate a stock price. It cannot make up a P/E ratio. It cannot tell you GTCO is undervalued based on data from two years ago. The grounding is real, and it's enforced by how the system is built.

How the NGN Market AI Analyst works

Everybody can use the NGN Market AI Analyst. In fact, if you look at the bottom of this page right now, you can already see the chat input field sitting there.

Click it and a chat panel opens where you can interact with the analyst from anywhere on the platform.

To get started, you need to be a registered user, which takes less than a few seconds. Once you sign up, you also get access to the financial data of every listed company, giving you a full picture of any stock you want to research.

Beyond financial data, you also have access to a portfolio page where you can log all your stocks, a watchlist page, and a page to set up price alerts so you can monitor the stocks you care about, and a lot more.

The analyst has two response modes: concise and detailed. If you want a quick, straight-to-the-point answer, go with concise. If you want every term explained and the full reasoning behind the response, detailed mode is what you need — especially useful if you are still building your understanding of how the market works.

You can also access the analyst directly from your dashboard. As a free user, you can ask three questions daily. If you want to go deeper, switching to a paid plan (which you can do from the Billing page… see pricing here) unlocks more questions and access to historical financial data that is not available on the free tier.

This also gives you access to additional advantages, like historical financial data that are usually locked for free users.

The kinds of questions you can now ask

This is the part worth sitting with, because the range of what's possible goes much further than most people assume. You can definitely ask simple questions like:

• What is MTNN trading at right now and how does that compare to its 52-week range?
• Which stocks have hit new highs in the last month?
• How has the All Share Index moved over the last six months?
• What's the current USD to naira rate and where has it been over the past year?

You can also leverage the amount of data available to the AI to ask some deeper research questions that used to take hours:

• Which Nigerian banks have grown earnings per share for three consecutive years, are still trading below a P/E of 8, and have had any positive news coverage in the last 30 days?
• I keep hearing about sector rotation. Which sectors are actually gaining institutional momentum right now, and which specific stocks within those sectors have improved fundamentals but haven't moved in price yet — meaning the market hasn't caught up?
• Has anything happened in the cement industry recently? Maybe news, earnings, or any NGN Market coverage that would change how I think about my position in DANGCEM?
• Which companies on the NGX have shown consistent revenue growth over the last two years, have improved their cash conversion… meaning they're actually collecting what they earn, but are trading near 52-week lows as if something is wrong, when the fundamentals say otherwise?
• Give me a full brief on the Nigerian bond market right now — what government and corporate bonds are available, where yields are, how they compare to current equity valuations across the market, and whether there's a compelling case to shift some allocation from stocks to fixed income at this moment.
• What companies on the NGX have improved their cash flow but haven't seen it reflected in their stock price yet?
• Which sectors are currently rotating into favour on the exchange?
• Compare Dangote Cement, BUA Cement, and Lafarge — financials, valuations, margins, and how they've each performed year to date.
• Are there any interesting opportunities in Nigerian government or corporate bonds right now?

These are questions that used to require you to know exactly where to look, pull data from multiple places, and do the analysis yourself. Now you just ask.

This is just the beginning

What's live today is version one.

The foundation is solid, but we know there's a lot more to build. Deeper analytics over longer time horizons. Smarter personalised insights based on your specific holdings. More coverage of corners of the market that are still underserved.

The direction we go from here will be shaped by how people actually use this. So try it, push it with hard questions, and tell us what it gets wrong or what's missing. That feedback is the most useful thing you can give us right now.

Send us your feedback via our social media accounts or via ngnmarket.com/contact