Market Report; 23 November 2021

At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange

A total of 11,929,500 shares in 923 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 391,616,835.00, were traded.

Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Monday, November 22), today’s data shows 36% decline in volume, 33% decline in turnover, and 8% decline in deals.

The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.48 trillion.

In the aggregate, 44 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 17✅ gainers and 20🔻 losers.

Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] led the gainers with 9.96% share price appreciation closing at✅ KES 2.87 per share, followed by:

✅ Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] (+9.33%),
✅Trans Century Plc [TCL](+8.33%)
✅ Bank of Kigali Group Plc [BKG] (+6.06%).

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On the losing side, Olympia Capital Holdings [OCH]came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 9% at🔻 KES 1.82 per share, followed by:

🔻Umeme Plc [UMME] (-5.8%)
🔻CIC Insurance Plc [CIC] (-5.29%)
🔻 Liberty Holdings Plc [LBTY] (-3.69%).

Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 6.19 million traded shares, followed by;

➖KCB Group Plc [KCB](2.79m)
➖ Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] (1.27m)
➖ Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (358,300).

The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] declined 1.03 points to close at 163.87
The NSE 20 Share Index gained✅ 2.35 points to close at 1878.46
The NSE 25 Share Index declined11.91points to close at 3667.92

Bonds & Derivatives on NSE.

The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded a decline in activity with 24 single stock features valued at Kes 919,420 traded during today’s trading session compared to the 44 single stock features valued at Kes 1.76 million traded during the previous trading session.

Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a decline in turnover during Today’s trading session, with bonds valued at Kes 2.83 billion transacted in 66 deals compared to the Kes  3.27 billion worth of bonds achieved in 85 deals traded at the close of the previous trading session.