At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 20,286,000 shares in 1,084 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 495,166,758.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, August 26), today’s data shows 8% decline in volume, 4% improvement in turnover, and 7% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.06 trillion.
In the aggregate, 47 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 23 ✅gainers and 13 ?losers.
Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] led the gainers with ✅10.00% share price appreciation closing at KES 3.85 per share, followed by:
✅Express Kenya Plc [XPRS] (+7.66%)
✅Umeme Limited [UMME] (+6.34%)
✅Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (+4.74%).
On the losing side, Liberty Kenya Holdings Plc [LBTY] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.41% closing at KES 7.70 per share, followed by:
?Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] (-6.06%)
?WPP ScanGroup Plc [SCAN] (-3.83%)
?East African Cables Plc [CABL] (-3.63%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 10.4 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] (2.24m)
➖Nairobi Securities Exchange Plc [NSE] (1.8m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.49m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained ✅2.12 points to close at 137.26
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index gained ✅10.54 points to close at 1771.18
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅57.47points to close at 3163.48
The derivatives market of the NSE had 6 contracts valued at Kes 195,370 concluded in today’s trading session. This was a positive improvement from the 3 contracts valued at Kes 98,500 concluded in previous trading session.
The secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded an increase in activity during today’s session with bonds worth Kes 3.11 Billion achieved in 134 deals in today’s session as compared to the Kes 4.95 Billion achieved in 142 deals during the previous trading session
