At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 3,239,400 shares in 630 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 87,109,342.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, December 4), today’s data shows a 90.57 decline in volume, 92% decline in turnover and a 23% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.21 trillion.
In the aggregate, 44 NSE listed securities participated in trading, ending with 18 ✅gainers and 16 ?losers.
Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] led the gainers with ✅8.37% share price appreciation closing at KES 4.66 per share, followed by:
✅Olympia Capital Holdings [OCH] (+7.76%)
✅Bank of Kigali Group Plc [BKG] (+6.67%)
✅Eveready East Africa Plc [EVRD] (+3.6%).
On the losing side, Trans Century Plc [TCL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.02% closing at KES 1.21 per share, followed by:
?Umeme Limited [UMME] (-4.29%)
?NewGold Exchange Traded Fund [GLD] (-3.32%)
?BAT Kenya Plc [BAT] (-2.44%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 1.2 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (675,600)
➖Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] (245,300)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (153,900).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] declined ?1.37 points to close at 146.75
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index declined ?3.65 points to close at 1782.78
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index declined ?19.32 points to close at 3293.65
The derivatives market had 25 single stock futures contracts valued at Kes 1.8 million concluded during Monday’s trading session.
Trading on the secondary bond market at the NSE recorded a stable rise in activity with bonds worth Kes 1.73 billion transacted in 46 deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to the Kes 779.7 million worth of bonds transacted during the previous trading session
