At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 19,014,200 shares in 960 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 771,474,273.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Monday, January 13), today’s data shows 9% decline in volume, 11% decline in turnover, and 22% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.59 trillion.
In the aggregate, 46 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 17 ✅gainers and 19 ?losers.
Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] led the gainers with ✅9.33% share price appreciation closing at KES 2.11 per share, followed by:
✅TPS Eastern Africa Plc [TPSE] (Serena) (+6.65%)
✅Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] (+3.85%)
✅Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (+3.51%).
On the losing side, East African Portland Cement Company [PORT] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?-8.97% closing at KES 13.20 per share, followed by:
?Kenya Airways Plc [KQ] (-6.39%)
?Sanlam Kenya Plc [SLAM] (-5.28%)
?Stanbic Holdings Plc [SBIC] (-2.87%).
KCB Group Plc [KCB] recorded the highest volume of 6.6 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Safaricom Plc [SCOM] (5.84m)
➖NCBA Group Plc [NCBA] (1.43m)
➖Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (873,600).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NAS I] dropped?0.77 points to close at 170.31
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped?23.87 points to close at 2688.51
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped?39.75 points to close at 4166.39
The Derivatives Market had 2 Safaricom contracts expiring March 2019 traded valued at Kes 66,200 as compared to the 7 contract valued at Kes 379,500 traded yesterday.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 85 deals worth Kes 3.46 Billion, indicating a growth in activity on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 101 deals valued at Kes 2.65 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
