At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 30,291,200 shares in 1,169 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 856,564,328.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, June 2), today’s data shows 83% improvement in volume, 1% decline in turnover, but 2% improvement in deals.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.6 trillion.
In the aggregate, 46 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 17✅ gainers and 19? losers.
Nation Media Group Plc [NMG] led the gainers with 9.98% share price appreciation closing at ✅KES 22.60 per share, followed by:
✅ Umeme Limited [UMME] (+8.19%)
✅Bamburi Cement Plc [BAMB] (+6.47%)
✅ Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (+3.73%).
On the losing side, Crown Paints Plc [CRWN] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?9.81% at KES 38.60 per share, followed by:
?BOC Gases Kenya Plc [BOC] (-6.85%)
? Flame Tree Group Holdings Plc [FTGH] (-5.8%)
? Williamson Tea Kenya Plc [WTK] (-3.83%).
NCBA Group Plc [NCBA] recorded the highest volume of 9 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY](5.99m)
➖Safaricom Plc [SCOM] (4.55m)
➖ Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE] (2.34m)
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] declined? 0.25 points to close at 170.94
The NSE 20 Share Index gained✅11.96 points to close at 1911.64
The NSE 25 Share Index declined? 6.87 points to close at 3694.54
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a notable rise in activity during Today’s trading session, with 26 single stock futures contracts valued at Kes 1.06 million concluded, compared to the 6 SSF contracts valued at Kes 124,550 concluded on the previous session
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a rise in activity during today’s trading session with bonds worth Kes 2.79 billion transacted in 93 deals as compared to the Kes 2.66 billion worth of bonds achieved in 66 deals in the preceding session.