At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 18,630,000 shares in 982 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 640,640,750.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Monday, January 6), today’s data shows 221% improvement in volume, 240% improvement in turnover, and 31% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.53 trillion.
In the aggregate, 47 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 11 ✅gainers and 27 ?losers.
Sasini Plc [SASN] led the gainers with ✅6.77% share price appreciation closing at KES 17.35 per share, followed by:
✅British American Tobacco (Kenya) Plc [BAT] (+6.38%)
✅East African Cables Plc [CABL] (+2.37%)
✅Diamond Trust Bank Kenya [DTB] (+1.59%).
On the losing side, Kenya Airways Plc [KQ] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?7.62% closing at KES 1.94 per share, followed by:
?Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (-6.75%)
?Unga Group Plc [UNGA] (-5.33%)
?STANLIB Fahari Income REIT [FAHR] (-5.17%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 7.7 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (4.48m)
➖Barclays Bank of Kenya [BBK] (2.79m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (649,000).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?0.35 points to close at 166.65
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?34.76 points to close at 2671.62
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?20.59 points to close at 4106.34
The Derivatives Market had had 5 Barclays Bank Futures contract worth Kes. 66,750 traded in today’s trading session as compared to the 1 contract worth Kes. 47,000 traded yesterday.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 50 deals worth Kes 803.77 Million, indicating a decline in activity on the Fixed income segment as compared to Friday’s 84 deals valued at Kes 924.25 Million.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
