At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 10,654,700 shares in 897 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 393,029,635.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, January 24), today’s data shows 7% decline in volume, 5% decline in turnover, but 49% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.48 trillion.
In the aggregate, 48 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 14 ✅gainers and 26 ?losers.
Eveready Plc [EVRD] led the gainers with ✅6.54% share price appreciation closing at KES 1.14 per share, followed by:
✅Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (+5.47%)
✅Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] (+5.26%)
✅Sanlam Kenya Plc [SLAM] (+4.05%).
On the losing side, Carbacid Investments Plc [CARB] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?6.89% closing at KES 8.38 per share, followed by:
?East African Cables Plc [CABL] (-5.2%)
?Kapchorua Tea Company Plc [KAPC] (-4.91%)
?Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (-3.85%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 3.9 million traded shares, followed by:
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (1.69m)
➖Bank of Kigali Group Plc [BKG] (1.13m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (864,800).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?1.72 points to close at 163.26
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?10.02 points to close at 2632.48
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?28.34 points to close at 4046.98
The Derivatives Market closed the day with 4 Safaricom contracts expiring 19 March, valued at Kes. 125,300 traded. an increase from the 3 contracts valued at Kes. 128,500 traded in the previous session.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 67 deals worth Kes 1.40 Billion, a slight decline in value and deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to Friday’s 77 deals valued at Kes 1.45 Billion
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
