At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 15,980,200 shares in 921 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 499,040,227.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Tuesday, April 13), today’s data shows 6% improvement in volume, 35% decline in turnover, and 3% decline in deals.
The current Nairobi Securities Exchange market capitalization is KES 2.43 trillion.
In the aggregate, 49 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 21✅ gainers and 22? losers.
Trans Century Plc [TCL] led the gainers with✅ 8.18% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.19 per share, followed by:
✅ Flame Tree Group Holdings Plc [FTGH] (+4.1%)
✅NCBA Group Plc [NCBA] (+3.92%)
✅ BOC Gases Kenya Plc [BOC] (+2.5%).
On the losing side, Kapchorua Plc [KAPC] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of? 7.3% at KES 82.50 per share, followed by:
? Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] (-7.03%)
?Standard Group Plc [SGL] (-4.53%)
? Unga Group Plc [UNGA] (-4.35%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 7.6 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ KCB Group Plc [KCB] (1.49m)
➖ Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.38m)
➖ KenGen Plc [KEGN] (977,200)
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] gained
1.33 points to close at 161.38
The NSE 20 Share Index gained 5.71 points to close at 1867.15
The NSE 25 Share Index gained23.52 points to close at 3577.01
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded quite a decline in activity during Today’s trading session, with 8 single stock futures contracts valued at Kes 293,635 concluded, compared to the 27 SSF contracts valued at Kes 1.01 million concluded on the previous session
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded an increase in activity during today’s trading session with bonds worth Kes 8.41 billion transacted in 144 deals as compared to the Kes 6.93 billion worth of bonds achieved in 114 deals in the preceding session.
