At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 15,035,600 shares in 952 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 770,605,579.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Monday, April 12), today’s data shows 43% improvement in volume and 95% improvement in turnover.
The current Nairobi Securities Exchange market capitalization is KES 2.41 trillion.
In the aggregate, 48 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 22✅ gainers and 15? losers.
Kapchorua Plc [KAPC] led the gainers with✅ 9.88% share price appreciation closing at KES 89.00 per share, followed by;’
✅ Umeme Limited [UMME] (+8.31%)
✅TransCentury Plc [TCL] (+6.8%)
✅ Unga Group Plc [UNGA] (+6.34%).
On the losing side, Crown Paints Plc [CRWN] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?7.58% at KES 39.00 per share, followed by:
?CIC Insurance Plc [CIC] (-7.42%)
?Flame Tree Group Holdings Plc [FTGH] (-6.15%)
? Sanlam Kenya Plc [SLAM] (-4.35%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 8.4 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ East African Breweries Plc [EABL] (2.01m)
➖ Bank of Kigali Group Plc [BKG] (1.5m)
➖ KCB Group Plc [KCB] (764,500)
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] gained 0.64 points to close at 160.05
The NSE 20 Share Index declined 1.42 points to close at 1861.44
The NSE 25 Share Index gained19.03 points to close at 3553.49
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded an increase in activity during Today’s trading session, with 27 single stock futures contracts valued at Kes 1.01 million concluded, compared to the 12 SSF contracts valued at Kes 450,900 concluded on the previous session
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a notable rise in activity during today’s trading session with bonds worth Kes 6.93 billion transacted in 114 deals as compared to the Kes 3.04 billion worth of bonds achieved in 43 deals in the preceding session.