At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 6,596,100 shares in 705 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 109,652,882.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, December 24), today’s data shows 50% decline in volume, 79% decline in turnover, but 13% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.26 trillion.
In the aggregate, 46 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 19 gainers and 17 losers.
Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] led the gainers with ✅8.80% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.36 per share, followed by:
✅Trans Century Plc [TCL] (+7.97%)
✅East African Cables Plc [CABL] (+4.62%)
✅Total Kenya Plc [TOTL] (+2.35%).
On the losing side, Standard Group Plc [SGL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?7.89% at KES 21.00 per share, followed by:
?Sasini Plc [SASN] (-4.47%)
?Kengen Plc [KEGN] (-4.05%)
?Liberty Kenya Holdings Plc [LBTY] (-3.84%).
Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] recorded the highest volume of 2 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Safaricom Plc [SCOM] (1.83m)
➖Kengen Plc [KEGN] (1.15m)
➖Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (548,400).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained ✅0.11 points to close at 150.29
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index declined ?9.46 points to close at 1830.06
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅1.19 points to close at 3345.45
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange had 5 single stocks futures contracts valued at Kes 46,000 concluded. This was a decline in turnover from the 5 contracts valued at Kes 180,290 transacted in the previous trading session.
The secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted an exponential rise in activity during today’s trading session with bonds worth Kes 2.28 billion traded in 40 deals during today’s session as compared to the Kes 1.77 Billion achieved in 56 deals during the previous trading session.
