At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 15,419,800 shares in 729 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 444,567,394.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, February 20), today’s data shows 44% decline in volume, 49% decline in turnover, and 16% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.4 trillion.
In the aggregate, 47 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 17 ✅gainers and 24 ?losers.
Car and General (Kenya) Plc [CGEN] led the gainers with ✅9.09% share price appreciation closing at KES 24.00 per share, followed by:
✅Longhorn Kenya Plc [LKL] (+8.53%)
✅TPS Eastern Africa Plc [TCL] (+7.89%)
✅Trans Century Plc [TCL] (+7.48%).
On the losing side, Sanlam Kenya Plc [SLAM] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ✅9.76% closing at KES 16.65 per share, followed by:
?Umeme Limited [UMME] (-9.55%)
?Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] (-8.75%)
?Nation Media Group [NMG] (-8.33%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 10.6 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.43m)
➖Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (706,600)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (559,600).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?0.49 points to close at 158.38
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?22.90 points to close at 2498.94
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?15.91 points to close at 3917.46
The Derivatives Market had to NSE25 index contract expiring in March 2020 traded, implying a turnover of Kes 78,780
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had bonds worth Kes 2.54 Billion traded in 113 deals, an increase in deals and in value on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 87 deals valued at Kes 1.95 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
