At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 27,017,700 shares in 1,156 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 976,390,678.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, February 27), today’s data shows 4% decline in volume, 9% improvement in turnover, and 32% improvement in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.26 trillion.
In the aggregate, 46 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 11 ✅gainers and 29 ?losers.
Express Kenya Plc [XPRS] led the gainers with ✅8.33% share price appreciation closing at KES 6.50 per share, followed by:
✅Car and General (Kenya) Plc [CGEN] (+8.33%)
✅Uchumi Supermarket Plc [UCHM] (+3.57%)
✅Barclays NewGold ETF [GLD] (+3.29%).
On the losing side, HF Group Plc [HFCK] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?8.27% closing at KES 4.55 per share, followed by:
?Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] (-6.87%)
?Diamond Trust Bank Kenya [DTK] (-6.54%)
?Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (-6.52%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 13.2 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (5.57m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (4.62m)
➖Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] (1.1m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?2.89 points to close at 148.60
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index dropped ?72.49 points to close at 2337.03
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?109.09 points to close at 3662.74
The Derivatives Market had 13 contracts valued at Kes 509,300 traded, a decline in activity on the NEXT market from yesterday’s 21 trades worth Kes 973,000.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE recorded a rise in activity with bonds worth Kes 2.91 Billion traded in 70 deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to yesterday’s 93 deals valued at Kes 4.58 Billion.
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room
