At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE),
A total of 4,407,600 shares in 751 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 121,739,013.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, October 15), today’s data shows 53% improvement in volume, 39% improvement in turnover, and 80% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.1 trillion.
In the aggregate, 45 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 12✅ gainers and 25? losers.
Bank of Kigali Group Plc [BKG] led the gainers with 5.36% share price appreciation closing at✅ KES 13.75 per share, followed by:
✅ Liberty Holdings Plc [LBTY] (+5.26%)
✅ Kengen Plc [KEGN] (+4.4%)
✅Britam Holdings Plc [BRIT]. (+3.87%).
On the losing side, Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.09% closing at KES 0.40 per share, followed by:
? Flame Tree Group Holdings Plc [FTGH] (-9.09%)
? HF Group Plc [HFCK] (-7.16%)
? Olympia Capital Holdings [OCH] (-6.96%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 2.4 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ I&M Holdings Plc [IMH] (501,300)
➖ Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC](415,400)
➖ Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY](291,000).
The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] remained unchanged to close at 139.65
The NSE 20 Share Index declined ?3.03 points to close at 1811.13
The NSE 25 Share Index declined ? 7.64 points to close at 3212.90
There was 1 contract valued at kes 35,000 concluded during today’s transaction on the derivatives market of the NSE. This was a increase in value compared to the 1 contract valued at kes 30,000 concluded during the previous trading session.
The bonds market posted a decline in turnover in today’s trading session, with bonds worth Kes 2.31 billion transacted in 82 deals against the 2.85 billion worth of bonds transacted in Thursday’s trading session.
