At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 14,350,500 shares in 878 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 529,742,358.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Tuesday, January 21), today’s data shows 45% decline in volume, 30% improvement in turnover, but 55% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.51 trillion.
In the aggregate, 47 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 10 ✅gainers and 26 ?losers.
Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] led the gainers with ✅7.69% share price appreciation closing at KES 0.28 per share, followed by:
✅Express Kenya Plc [XPRS] (+4.33%)
✅Standard Group Plc [SGL] (+2.66%)
✅Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (+2.07%).
On the losing side, Car and General (Kenya) Plc [CGEN] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?7.69% closing at KES 24.00 per share, followed by:
?Flame Tree Group Holdings Plc [FTGH] (-6.76%)
?Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (-5.8%)
?Stanbic Holdings Plc [SBIC] (-5.68%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 8.1 million traded shares, followed by:
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (3.23m)
➖KenGen Plc [KEGN] (750,400)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (373,400).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?0.64 points to close at 165.32
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?11.65 points to close at 2647.58
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?22.50 points to close at 4072.40
The Derivatives Market closed the day with no activity, a decline from the 3 contracts worth Kes. 40,500 traded yesterday.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 95 deals worth Kes 2.40 Billion, a slight decline in value but an increase deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to Yesterday’s 95 deals valued at Kes 2.40 Billion
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
