At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), a total of 16,958,100 shares in 893 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 619,720,924.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, December 15), today’s data shows 2% improvement in volume, 23% improvement in turnover, but 11% decline in deals.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.48 trillion.
In the aggregate, 43 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 14 gainers and 19 losers.
Standard Group Plc [SGL] led the gainers with ✅9.52% share price appreciation closing at KES 14.95 per share, followed by;
✅Olympia Capital Holdings [OCH] (+8.33%)
✅Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] (+2.63%)
✅East African Cables Plc [CABL] (+2.4%).
On the losing side, Sasini Plc [SASN] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 🔻 8.26% at KES 20.55 per share, followed by;
🔻East African Portland Cement Company Plc [PORT] (-7.06%),
🔻Liberty Kenya Holdings Plc [LBTY] (-3.83%)
🔻HF Group Plc [HFCK](-3.79%).
KCB Group Plc [KCB] recorded the highest volume of 7.25 million traded shares, followed by;
➖Safaricom Plc [SCOM](6.32m)
➖Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] (1.31m)
➖Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (333,400).
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] gained
0.18 to close at 163.31
The NSE 20 Share Index shed🔻 7.04 points to close at 1862.44
The NSE 25 Share Index gained6.73 points to close at 3623.83
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE.
Trading on the secondary bond market declined on the Nairobi Securities Exchange compared to Wednesday’s trading, with bonds valued at Kes 1.77 billion transacted in 76 deals compared to the Kes 2.03 billion worth of bonds achieved in 92 deals traded at the close of the previous trading session.
The derivatives segment on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted an increase in activity with 639 futures contracts valued at Kes 23,389,090 concluded, compared to the 1 single stock futures contract valued at Kes 11,100 that was concluded at the close of Wednesday session.
