At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)
A total of 11,472,900 shares in 642 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 272,026,603.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Tuesday, October 27), today’s data shows 10% improvement in volume, 15% improvement in turnover, but 15% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.1 trillion.
In the aggregate, 42 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 16✅ gainers and 18? losers.
Transcentury Plc [TCL] led the gainers with✅ 6.67% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.60 per share, followed by:
✅Standard Group Plc [SGL] (+5.42%)
✅HF Group Plc [HFCK] (+4.86%)
✅ Total Kenya Plc [TOTL] (+2.78%).
On the losing side, Express Kenya Plc [XPRS] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of? 8.89% at KES 4.10 per share, followed by:
? Eveready E.A Plc [EVRD] (-6.19%)
?Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (-6.00%)
? Car and General Plc [CGEN] (-5.00%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 5.8 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ Bank of Kigali Group Plc [BKG] (2.92m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.13m)
➖ Britam Holdings Plc [BRIT] (511,200).
The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] declined
0.11 to close at 139.88
The NSE 20 Share Index declined 0.18 points to close at 1797.81
The NSE 25 Share Index declined 1.48 points to close at 3183.75
There were no contracts concluded during today’s trading session on derivatives market of the NSE.
The bonds market posted a decline in turnover in today’s trading session, with bonds worth Kes 1.77 billion transacted in 64 deals against the 2.53 billion worth of bonds transacted in Tuesday’s trading session.
