At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 27,534,800 shares in 872 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 873,023,079.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, February 19), today’s data shows 50% improvement in volume, 77% improvement in turnover, but 7% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.41 trillion.
In the aggregate, 45 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 12 ✅gainers and 24 ?losers.
Nation Media Group [NMG] led the gainers with ✅8.55% share price appreciation closing at KES 33.00 per share, followed by:
✅Crown Paints Kenya Plc [CRWN] (+8.33%)
✅Umeme Limited [UMME] (+3.65%)
✅HF Group Plc [HFCK] (+3.49%).
On the losing side, Liberty Kenya Holdings Plc [LBTY] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.82% closing at KES 9.00 per share, followed by:
?Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] (-6.52%)
?Sasini Plc [SASN] (-4.35%)
?STANLIB Fahari Income REIT [FAHR] (-3.9%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 14.5 million traded shares, followed by:
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (6.66m)
➖Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] (2.24m)
➖Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (1.6m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?0.48 points to close at 158.87
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?1.51 points to close at 2521.84
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?18.77 points to close at 3933.37
The Derivatives Market had no activity in today’s trading session.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had bonds worth Kes 1.95 Billion traded in 87 deals, a marginal rise in deals and in value on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 76 deals valued at Kes 1.8 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.