At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 12,263,100 shares in 909 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 384,690,461.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, September 16), today’s data shows 33% decline in volume, 26% decline in turnover, and 15% decline in deals.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.78 trillion.
In the aggregate, 47 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 21✅ gainers and 14🔻 losers.
Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] led the gainers with 4.76% share price appreciation closing at✅ KES 0.22 per share, followed by:
✅ Liberty Holdings Plc [LBTY] (+3.63%)
✅ Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] (+3.5%)
✅ KCB Group Plc [KCB] (+3.41%).
On the losing side, Limuru Tea Plc [LIMT] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of🔻 8.57% at KES 320.00 per share, followed by:
🔻 CIC Insurance Plc [CIC] (-2.87%)
🔻 Jubilee Holdings Plc [JUB] (-2.71%)
🔻 HF Group Plc [HFCK] (-2%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 3.73 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ Co-operative Bank of Kenya [COOP] (1.88m)
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.55m)
➖ KCB Group Plc [KCB] (1.44m)
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] gained
2.23 points to close at 182.75
The NSE 20 Share Index gained 9.65 points to close at 2061.45
The NSE 25 Share Index gained 49.60 points to close at 4015.08
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a decline in activity with 20 single stock features valued at Kes 927,490 traded during today’s trading session compared to the 170 single stock features valued at Kes 6.49 million traded during the previous trading session.
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a rise in today’s trading session, with bonds valued at Kes 8.59 billion transacted in 190 deals compared to the Kes 6.09 billion worth of bonds achieved in 195 deals traded at the close of the previous trading session.
