At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 16,903,500 shares in 1,330 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 532,185,144.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, December 1), today’s data shows 5% improvement in volume, 7% decline in turnover, but 23% improvement in deals.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.46 trillion.
In the aggregate, 47 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 14 ✅gainers and 21🔻 losers.
Eaagads Plc [EGAD] led the gainers with✅ 8.98% share price appreciation closing at KES 13.95 per share, followed by:
✅ Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (+5.47%)
✅ Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] (+4.35%)
✅ Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (+2.56%).
On the losing side, Car & General Plc [CGEN] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of🔻 10% at KES 31.95 per share, followed by:
🔻 KenGen Plc [KEGN] (-8.6%)
🔻Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] (-6.67%)
🔻 CIC Insurance Plc [CIC] (-5.02%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 9.87 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ KenGen Plc [KEGN] (2.53m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (1.94m)
➖ Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (636,600)
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] declined 0.96 to close at 162.24
The NSE 20 Share Index declined 22.05 points to close at 1844.03
The NSE 25 Share Index declined36.21 points to close at 3569.30
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE.
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded a rise in activity with 23 single stock features valued at Kes 922,050 traded during today’s trading session compared to the 10 single stock features valued at Kes 442,000 traded during the previous trading session.
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a rise in turnover during Today’s trading session, with bonds valued at Kes 2.47 billion transacted in 103 deals compared to the Kes 2.19 billion worth of bonds achieved in 103 deals traded at the close of the previous trading session.