At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)
A total of 44,592,600 shares in 922 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 1,441,203,438.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, September 23), today’s data shows 73% improvement in volume, 110% improvement in turnover, but 8% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.1 trillion.
In the aggregate, 44 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 20✅ gainers and 15? losers.
Sanlam Kenya Plc [SLAM] led the gainers with✅ 9.17% share price appreciation closing at KES 13.10 per share, followed by:
✅ Unga Group Plc [UNGA] (+6.49%)
✅ Sasini Plc [SASN] (+5.26%)
✅ Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (+3.32%).
On the losing side, Express Kenya Plc [XPRS]came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of? 10% at KES 4.32 per share, followed by:
?East African Cables Plc [CABL] (-4.71%)
? Carbacid Plc [CARB] (-3.8%)
? Nairobi Securities Exchange Plc [NSE] (-3.76%).
Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY]recorded the highest volume of 28.3 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ Safaricom Plc [SCOM] (10.56m)
➖ KCB Group Plc [KCB] (1.08m)
➖ Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] (1.04m).
The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained✅ 0.08points to close at 139.71
The NSE 20 Share Index declined? 8.67 points to close at 1832.00
The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅4.20 points to close at 3221.79
There were 4 contracts valued at kes 126,000 concluded in today’s trading session on the derivatives market of the NSE.
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange was quite low today, with bonds worth Kes 1.69 billion transacted in 63 deals in as compared to the Kes 2.90 billion achieved in 53 deals posted in the Wednesday’s trading session
