At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 35,099,800 shares in 764 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 1,123,502,327.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, November 28), today’s data shows 142% improvement in volume, 116% improvement in turnover, but 14% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.40 trillion.
In the aggregate, 42 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 18 ✅gainers and 16 ?losers.
Cooperative Bank of Kenya [COOP] led the gainers with 7.00% share price appreciation closing at KES 16.05 per share, followed by:
✅Flame Tree Group Holdings [FTGH] (+5.93%)
✅Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (+3.45%)
✅KenGen Plc [KEGN] (+1.72%).
On the losing side, Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?-8.57% closing at KES 0.32 per share, followed by:
?Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] (-8.38%)
?Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (-7.8%)
?Kenya Airways Plc [KQ] (-4.62%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 14.9 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Centum Investment Company Plc [CTUM] (10.81m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (5.02m)
➖Cooperative Bank of Kenya [COOP] (1.1m).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] gained ✅ 1.36 points to close at 157.93
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index gained ✅3.81 points to close at 2618.62
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index gained ✅38.35 points to close at 3918.48
The Derivatives Market traded 1 index contract (19Mar20)6 contracts traded, valued at Kes. 300,000 a drop from the 6 contracts valued at Kes. 300,000 transacted in yesterday’s trading session.
Corporate Actions:
- Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc announced extension of the Delay of Publication of the Audited Financial Statements for the Financial Year ended 30th.June.2019.
- Kengen Plc announced extension of the Delay of Publication of the Audited Financial Statements for the Financial Year ended 30th.June.2019.
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
Source: Nairobi Securities Exchange.
