At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 17,839,700 shares in 886 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 856,560,344.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, October 8), today’s data shows 34% decline in volume, 15% decline in turnover, and 36% decline in deals.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.67 trillion.
In the aggregate, 44 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 14✅ gainers and 21🔻 losers.
Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] led the gainers with✅ 8.97% share price appreciation closing at KES 6.32 per share, followed by:
✅ Sasini Plc [SASN] (+4.47%)
✅ Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] (+4.35%)
✅ E.A Portland Plc [PORT] (+3.8%).
On the losing side, Eveready E. A Plc [EVRD] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of🔻 7.89% at KES 1.05 per share, followed by :
🔻Eaagads Plc [EGAD] (-7.69%)
🔻Britam Holdings Plc [BRIT](-5.45%)
🔻 Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] (-2.92%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 10.9 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (2.01m)
➖ KCB Group Plc [KCB] (1.97m)
➖ East African Breweries Plc [EABL] (1.1m)
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] gained✅ 0.27 to close at 176.09
The NSE 20 Share Index declined
11.48 points to close at 1981.44
The NSE 25 Share Index declined2.17 points to close at 3832.73
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded a decline in activity with 12 single stock features valued at Kes 446,730 traded during today’s trading session compared to the 26 single stock features valued at Kes 829,120 traded during the previous trading session.
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a rise in activity during Monday’s trading session, with bonds valued at Kes 3.20 billion transacted in 83 deals compared to the Kes 1.61 billion worth of bonds achieved in 71 deals traded at the close of the previous trading session.
