At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
A total of 28,088,200 shares in 873 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 893,780,377.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, February 26), today’s data shows 207% improvement in volume, 233% improvement in turnover, and 13% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.3 trillion.
In the aggregate, 41 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 12 gainers and 27 losers.
Stanbic Holdings Plc [SBIC] led the gainers with ✅8.74% share price appreciation closing at KES 112.00 per share, followed by:
✅HF Group Plc [HFCK] (+6.9%)
✅Carbacid Investments Plc [CARB] (+5.87%)
✅Umeme Limited [UMME] (+5.28%).
On the losing side, Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.09% closing at KES 1.70 per share, followed by:
?Standard Group Plc [SGL] (-8.7%)
?I&M Holdings Plc [IMH] (-6.42%)
?Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] (-5.17%).
Safaricom recorded the highest volume of 19.3 million traded shares, followed by:
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (3.11m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.9m)
➖Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] (715,800).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?0.93 points to close at 151.49
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?19.66 points to close at 2409.53
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?26.37 points to close at 3771.83
The Derivatives Market had 21 contracts valued at Kes 973,000 traded, a rise in turnover from yesterday’s 5 trades worth Kes.184,860.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE recorded a rise in activity with bonds worth Kes 4.58 Billion traded in 93 deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 64 deals valued at Kes 2.6 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room
