At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 14,451,900 shares in 671 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 315,494,218.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, February 14), today’s data shows 60.0% decline in volume, 67.0% decline in turnover, and 5.0% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.46 trillion.
In the aggregate, 47 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 18 ✅gainers and ?20 losers.
Sasini Plc [SASN] led the gainers with ✅9.01% share price appreciation closing at KES 17.55 per share, followed by:
✅Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] (+7.41%)
✅Express Kenya Plc [XPRS] (+6.41%)
✅Carbacid Investments Plc [CARB] (+6.00%).
On the losing side, Trans Century Plc [TCL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?-9.66% at KES 2.15 per share, followed by:
?HF Group Plc [HFCK] (-5.21%)
?East African Cables Plc [CABL] (-4.69%)
?Centum Investment Company Plc [CTUM] (-3.72%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 5.9 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] (5.39m)
➖Kengen Plc [KEGN] (1.48m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (591,300).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?0.26 points to close at 162.11
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?7.88 points to close at 2551.17
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?7.66 points to close at 3998.10
The Derivatives Market had nil trades in today’s session.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 100 deals worth Kes 2.77 Billion, a marginal rise in value on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 83 deals valued at Kes 2.39 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
