At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)
A total of 22,820,400 shares in 996 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 535,405,692.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Monday, February 8), today’s data shows 246% improvement in volume, 153% improvement in turnover, and 15% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.39 trillion.
In the aggregate, 45 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 17
gainers and 16? losers.
Bank of Kigali Group Plc [BKG] led the gainers with 7.37% share price appreciation closing at KES 20.40 per share, followed by:
TPS Eastern Africa Plc [TPSE] (+6.90%)
Nairobi Securities Exchange Plc [NSE] (+5.01%)
Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (+3.78%).
On the losing side, Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.82% at KES 5.14 per share, followed by:
?Eaagads Plc [EGAD] (-9.75%)
?Olympia Capital Holdings [OCH] (-8.51%)
?I&M Holdings Plc [IMH] (-6.44%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 8.1 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (8.12m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (2.50m)
➖I&M Holdings Plc [IMH] (1.35m)
The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained 1.62 points to close at 158.68
The NSE 20 Share Index declined? 3.52 points to close at 1876.19
The NSE 25 Share Index gained 17.86 points to close at 3512.68
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
The derivatives market recorded a moderate increase in today’s trading session with 15 contracts valued at kes 340,250 concluded against the 2 contracts valued at kes 74,400 traded during the Previous trading session.
The secondary bond market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange has recorded quite an increase in activity during today’s trading session with bonds worth Kes 6.41 billion traded in 150 deals as compared to the Kes 3.06 billion achieved in 80 deals in the previous trading session.
