At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 34,035,200 shares in 995 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 1,317,977,563.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, February 6), today’s data shows 63% improvement in volume, 61% improvement in turnover, and 7% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.56 trillion.
In the aggregate, 46 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 17 ✅gainers and ?22 losers.
Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] led the gainers with ✅9.55% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.95 per share, followed by:
✅Sanlam Kenya Plc [SLAM] (+8.92%)
✅Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (+4.44%)
✅Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (+4.18%).
On the losing side, Total Kenya Plc [TOTL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.53% closing at KES 26.10 per share, followed by:
?Unga Group Plc [UNGA] (-8.79%)
?Car and General (Kenya) Plc [CGEN] (-8.33%)
?Liberty Kenya Holdings [LBTY] (-7.77%).
Safaricom recorded the highest volume of 18.3 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] (4.1m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (2.96m)
➖Kengen Plc [KEGN] (1.94m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ? 0.70 points to close at 168.65
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?5.53 points to close at 2602.36
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?36.50 points to close at 4127.06
The Derivatives Market had 10 contracts valued at Kes 465,400, a decline from the 9 contracts valued at Kes 693,020 traded yesterday.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 77 deals worth Kes 1.89 Billion, a decline in value and deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 51 deals valued at Kes 2.49 Billion
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
