Market Report; 20 September 2021

At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange

A total of 5,916,500 shares in 1,089 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 183,738,871.00, were traded.

Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, September 17), today’s data shows 52% decline in volume, 52% decline in turnover, but 20% improvement in deals.

The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.76 trillion.

In the aggregate, 44 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 8✅ gainers and 27🔻 losers.

Nairobi Securities Exchange Plc [NSE] led the gainers with✅ 6.05% share price appreciation closing at KES 9.82 per share, fololdings (+3.75%)

✅ Eaagads Plc [EGAD] (+4.09%)
✅ Liberty  Holdings  Plc [LBTY] (+3.75%)
✅ Carbacid Plc [CARB] (+2.6%).

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On the losing side, Total Kenya Plc [TOTL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of🔻 5.69% at KES 24.05 per share, followed by:

🔻Car & General Plc [CGEN](-4.91%)
🔻Eveready E.A  Plc [EVRD](-3.96%)
🔻TPS Eastern Africa Plc [TPSE] (-3.23%).

Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 1.65 million traded shares, followed by:

➖ KenGen Plc [KEGN] (1.19m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB](710,200)
➖ Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation [KNRE]](426,700)

The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] declined🔻 1.11 points to close at 181.64
The NSE 20 Share Index declined🔻 4.46 points to close at 2056.49
The NSE 25 Share Index declined🔻 20.89 points to close at 3994.19

Bonds & Derivatives on NSE

The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a decline in activity with 15 single stock features valued at Kes 596,000 traded during today’s trading session compared to the 20 single stock features valued at Kes 927,490 traded during the previous trading session.

Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a decline in today’s trading session, with bonds valued at Kes 6.67 billion transacted in 197 deals compared to the Kes  8.59  billion worth of bonds achieved in 190deals traded at the close of the previous trading session.