At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 21,309,100 shares in 1,248 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 538,149,862.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Monday, August 9), today’s data shows a 6% improvement in volume, a 36% decline in turnover, but a 10% improvement in deals.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.74 trillion.
In the aggregate, 49 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 16 gainers and 22 losers.
Stanbic Holdings Plc [SBIC] led the gainers with a ✅3.76% share price appreciation closing at KES 89.75 per share, followed by:
✅ILAM Fahari Income REIT [FAHR] (+2.65%)
✅Sasini Plc [SASN] (+2.31%)
✅Bamburi Cement Plc [BAMB] (+2.11%).
On the losing side, Olympia Capital Holdings [OCH] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 🔻8.18% at KES 2.02 per share, followed by:
🔻Eaagads Plc [EGAD] (-7.00%)
🔻Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] (-4.32%)
🔻WPP ScanGroup Plc [SCAN] (-4.11%).
Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] recorded the highest volume of 7.8 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Safaricom Plc [SCOM] (3.82m)
➖Bamburi Cement Plc [BAMB] (2.42m)
➖Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (2.29m).
➡️The benchmark All-Share Index [NASI] gained ✅0.07 points to close at 180.53
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped 🔻1.96 points to close at 1975.02
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅2.53 points to close at 3939.02
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted flat activity during Tuesday’s trading session, with 19 single stock futures contracts valued at Kes 840,830 concluded, compared to the 21 contracts valued at Kes 849,685 Million concluded during Monday’s trading session.
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted growth in activity during today’s trading with bonds worth Kes 4.98 billion transacted in 94 deals as compared to the Kes 2.97 billion worth of bonds achieved in 94 deals traded at the close of trading yesterday.
