At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 20,236,300 shares in 894 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 413,189,914.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Monday, November 9), today’s data shows 273% improvement in volume, 338% improvement in turnover, and 35% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.12 trillion.
In the aggregate, 42 NSE listed securities participated in trading, ending with 17 ✅gainers and 15 ?losers.
Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] led the gainers with ✅7.92% share price appreciation closing at KES 2.18 per share, followed by:
✅Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (+4.88%)
✅BAT Kenya Plc [BAT] (+4.17%)
✅Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] (+3.45%).
On the losing side, East African Cables Plc [CABL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.15% closing at KES 1.39 per share, followed by:
?Nation Media Group Plc [NMG] (-5.54%)
?Eaagads Plc [EGAD] (-5.36%)
?Nairobi Securities Exchange Plc [NSE] (-4.40%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 6.3 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (4.05m)
➖Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] (2.81m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (2.39m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained ✅1.16 points to close at 140.91
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index gained ✅5.15 points to close at 1769.02
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅31.65 points to close at 3211.11
The 21st December Equity Bank single stock future had one contract valued at Kes 34,570 transacted. This was the first trade of the week on the derivatives market.
The bonds market posted a decline in turnover during today’s trading session, with bonds worth Kes 2.55 billion transacted in 55 deals against the 1.53 billion worth of bonds transacted in the previous trading session.
