At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)
A total of 45,532,900 shares in 914 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 1,131,226,986.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, February 3), today’s data shows 245% improvement in volume, 185% improvement in turnover, but 5% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.38 trillion.
In the aggregate, 42 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 14✅ gainers and 21? losers.
Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] led the gainers with✅ 6.67% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.60 per share, followed by:
✅East African Breweries Plc [EABL] (+3.83%)
✅Centum Investments Plc [CTUM] (+2.37%)
✅Express Kenya Plc [XPRS] (+1.83%)
On the losing side, Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of? 7.77% at KES 5.22 per share, followed by:
?TPS Eastern Africa Plc [TPSE] (-6.06%)
?Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (-5.41%)
?Nation Media Group Plc [NMG] (-4.98%)
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 18.60 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (14.14m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB](4.90m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (3.03m)
The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained
1.11 points to close at 158.33
The NSE 20 Share Index declined
1.75 points to close at 1870.81
The NSE 25 Share Index gained 22.04 points to close at 3481.90
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE.
The derivatives market of the NSE recorded a quite a decline in Thursday’s trading session with 11 contracts valued at kes 196,000 concluded against the 16 contracts valued at kes 518,100 traded during the Previous trading session.
The secondary bond market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange has recorded an increase in activity during today’s trading session with bonds worth Kes 4.79 billion traded in 101 deals as compared to the Kes 4.36 billion achieved in 113 deals in the previous trading session.
