At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 10,959,900 shares in 975 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 375,311,750.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, September 23), today’s data shows 38% decline in volume and 52% decline in turnover.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.7 trillion.
In the aggregate, 49 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 19✅ gainers and 21 🔻losers.
Eveready E. A Plc [EVRD] led the gainers with✅ 8.25% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.05 per share, followed by:
✅Jubilee Holdings Plc [JUB] (+5.36%)
✅Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (+4.79%)
✅Carbacid Plc [CARB] (+4.35%).
On the losing side, Crown Paints Plc [CRWN] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of🔻 9.92% at KES 26.80 per share, followed by:
🔻TPS Eastern Africa Plc [TPSE] (-4.06%)
🔻Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] (-3.57%)
🔻NCBA Group Plc [NCBA] (-3.39%).
KCB Group Plc [KCB] recorded the highest volume of 3.11 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (2.43m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.87m)
➖Safaricom Plc [SCOM](1.23m).
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] declined🔻 0.52 to close at 177.81
The NSE 20 Share Index declined🔻 6.42 points to close at 2039.75
The NSE 25 Share Index declined🔻 8.15 points to close at 3918.47
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
There were 15 single stock features valued at kes 676,110 traded during today’s trading session on the derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a decline in today’s trading session, with bonds valued at Kes 6.27 billion transacted in 169 deals compared to the Kes 10.66 billion worth of bonds achieved in 182 deals traded at the close of the previous trading session.
