At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 16,388,500 shares in 751 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 371,816,838.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, November 12), today’s data shows 32% decline in volume, 39% decline in turnover, but 6% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.16 trillion.
In the aggregate, 43 NSE listed securities participated in trading, ending with 14 ✅gainers and 19 ?losers.
Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] led the gainers with ✅7.96% share price appreciation closing at KES 2.17 per share, followed by:
✅Crown Paints Kenya Plc [CRWN] (+7.89%)
✅TPS Eastern Africa Plc [TPSE] (+5.9%)
✅Standard Chartered Bank Plc [SCBK] (+5.57%).
On the losing side, East African Cables Plc [CABL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?5.07% closing at KES 1.31 per share, followed by:
?Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (-4.76%)
?Eaagads Plc [EGAD] (-4.15%)
?Trans Century Plc [TCL] (-3.85%).
Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] recorded the highest volume of 4.7 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Safaricom Plc [SCOM] (3.27m)
➖Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] (2.29m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.67m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained ✅0.63 points to close at 143.93
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index gained ✅8.92 points to close at 1789.52
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅12.13 points to close at 3280.73
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange had 5 Safaricom single stock future’s contract valued at Kes 150,000 concluded during Friday’s trading session.
Trading on the secondary bond market at the NSE recorded growth in activity with bonds worth Kes 2.62 billion transacted in 55 deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to the 1.39 billion worth of bonds transacted during the previous trading session