At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 36,299,100 shares in 708 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 961,288,442.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, February 13), today’s data shows 27% improvement in volume, 4% decline in turnover, and 19% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.47 trillion.
In the aggregate, 46 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 13 ✅gainers and 26 ?losers.
Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] led the gainers with ✅8.00% share price appreciation closing at KES 0.27 per share, followed by:
✅Sanlam Kenya Plc [SLAM] (+5.57%)
✅Eveready Plc [EVRD] (+4.12%)
✅East African Cables Plc [CABL] (+3.9%).
On the losing side, Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.57% closing at KES 1.89 per share, followed by:
?WPP ScanGroup Plc [SCAN] (-5.71%)
?Carbacid Plc [CARB] (-5.66%)
?Express Kenya Plc [XPRS] (-3.44%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 16.7 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Kengen Plc [KEGN] (10.2m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (3.13m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (2.56m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?1.79 points to close at 162.37
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?21.15 points to close at 2559.05
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?34.08 points to close at 4005.76
The Derivatives Market had nil trades in today’s session.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 83 deals worth Kes 2.40 Billion, a marginal rise in value on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 92 deals valued at Kes 2.14 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
