At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 12,340,400 shares in 678 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 324,016,478.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Tuesday, November 24), today’s data shows 18% decline in volume, 25% decline in turnover, and 8% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.16 trillion.
In the aggregate, 38 NSE listed securities participated in trading, ending with 13 gainers and 15 losers.
East African Cables Plc [CABL] led the gainers with ✅7.69% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.40 per share, followed by:
✅Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] (+6.87%)
✅Bank of Kigali Group Plc [BKG] (+3.7%)
✅Total Kenya Plc [TOTL] (+2.46%).
On the losing side, Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.52% closing at KES 0.38 per share, followed by:
?East African Portland Cement Company [PORT] (-8.33%)
?Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (-5.79%)
?NewGold Exchange Traded Fund [GLD] (-3.04%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 5.3 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] (2.77m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.23m)
➖HF Group Plc [HFCK] (1.1m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained ✅0.95 points to close at 143.93
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index declined ?0.34 points to close at 1790.38
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅15.69 points to close at 3266.68
There were three Safaricom single stock futures contracts expiring on 17th December valued at Kes 95,340 concluded on the derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
The bonds market posted a rise in turnover during today’s trading session, with bonds worth Kes 4.28 billion transacted in 130 deals against the Kes 1.88 billion worth of bonds transacted in the previous trading session.