At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 28,787,000 shares in 897 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 872,110,318.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, February 28), today’s data shows 7% improvement in volume, 11% decline in turnover, and 22% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.28 trillion.
In the aggregate, 44 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 19 ✅gainers and 19 ?losers.
East African Cables Plc [CABL] led the gainers with ✅8.33% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.95 per share, followed by:
✅Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] (+7.45%)
✅Nation Media Group Plc [NMG] (+7.27%)
✅Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Plc [SCBK] (+6.36%).
On the losing side, Standard Group Plc [SGL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.30% closing at KES 19.50 per share, followed by:
?Eveready Plc [EVRD] (-7.77%)
?CIC Insurance Group Plc [CIC] (-6.46%)
?Olympia Capital Holdings [OCH] (-6.00%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 13.3 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Kengen Kenya Plc [KEGN] (4.31m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (3.37m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (2.25m)
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained ✅1.59 points to close at 150.19
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index gained ✅31.09 points to close at 2368.13
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅44.48 points to close at 3707.32
The Derivatives Market had 5 contracts valued at Kes 197,500 traded, a decline in activity on the NEXT market from Friday’s 13 trades worth Kes 509,300.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE recorded a rise in activity with bonds worth Kes 3.68 Billion traded in 70 deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to Friday’s 93 deals valued at Kes 2.91 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room
