At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 12,397,600 shares in 674 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 463,069,151.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, December 20), today’s data shows 74% decline in volume, 72% decline in turnover, and 17% 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 31 ✅gainers and 10 ?losers.
Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] Kenya led the gainers with ✅9.33% share price appreciation closing at KES 6.56 per share, followed by:
✅Car and General Plc [CGEN] (+9.09%)
✅Eaagads Limited [EGAD] (+8.85%)
✅Unga Group Plc [UNGA] (+6.8%).
On the losing side, Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?-5.00% closing at KES 0.57 per share, followed by:
?Kenya Airways Plc [KQ] (-4.74%)
?Total Kenya Plc [TOTL] (-2.96%)
?Trans Century Plc [TCL](-2.22%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 7.6 million traded shares, followed by:
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (2.71m)
➖Diamond Trust Bank Kenya [DTK] (364,800)
➖Kenya Airways Plc [KQ] (339,900).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained ✅1.22 points to close at 165.12
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index gained ✅12.36 points to close at 2596.12
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅16.67 points to close at 4035.26
The Derivatives Market had no activity in today’s trading session. Trading on Barclays Bank began today with the set opening price as Kes 13.05.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 113 deals worth Kes 1.60 Billion, an increase in value from Yesterday’s 82 deals valued at Kes 1.90 Billion
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
Source: Nairobi Securities Exchange.
