At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 20,945,700 shares in 1,235 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 864,294,232.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, January 10), today’s data shows 3% improvement in volume, 3% improvement in turnover, and 19% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.6 trillion.
In the aggregate, 45 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 16 ✅gainers and 20 ?losers.
Sanlam Kenya Plc [SLAM] led the gainers with ✅5.57% share price appreciation closing at KES 18.00 per share, followed by:
✅Stanbic Holdings Plc [SBIC] (+5.10%),
✅Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] (+4%)
✅Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (+3.64%).
On the losing side, Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?8.10% closing at KES 1.93 per share, followed by:
?Nation Media Group Plc [NMG] (-7.62%)
?Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (-5.00%)
?Crown Paints Kenya Plc [CRWN] (-4.78%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 10.6 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (2.97m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (2.38m)
➖Diamond Trust Bank Kenya [DTK] (1.07m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped?0.28 points to close at 171.08
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped?8.65 points to close at 2701.04
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped?1.76 points to close at 4206.14
The Derivatives Market had 7 contracts traded valued at Kes.379,500 as compared to Friday’s 6 contract valued at Kes 327,750.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 101 deals worth Kes 2.65 Billion, indicating a continued growth in activity on the Fixed income segment as compared to Friday’s 65 deals valued at Kes 2.28 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
