At the end of today’s trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 20,326,600 shares in 1,094 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 588,155,756.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Wednesday, June 23), today’s data shows 27% decline in volume, 33% improvement in turnover, and 23% improvement in deals.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.61 trillion.
In the aggregate, 48 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 18✅ gainers and 24 ?losers.
Nairobi Business Ventures[NBV] led the gainers with 9.83% share price appreciation closing at ✅KES 7.60 per share, followed by:
✅ Williamson Tea Kenya Plc [WTK] (+9.7%)
✅BOC Gases Kenya Plc [BOC] (+9.35%)
✅Olympia Capital Holdings[OCH] (+9.14%).
On the losing side, TransCentury Plc [TCL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?6.67% at KES 1.40 per share, followed by:
?Longhorn Publishers Plc [LKL] (-3.85%)
? Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (-3.7%)
? Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] (-3.57%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 9 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Carbacid Plc [CARB] (3.4m)
➖Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (2.58m)
➖ KCB Group Plc [KCB] (1.96m)
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] declined 0.69 points to close at 171.69
The NSE 20 Share Index declined 8.38 points to close at 1890.30
The NSE 25 Share Index declined 16.78 points to close at 3736.36
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a rise in activity during Today’s trading session, with 76 single stock futures contracts valued at Kes 3.07 million concluded, compared to the 21 SSF contracts valued at Kes 859,820 concluded on the previous session.
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a rise in activity during today’s trading session with bonds worth Kes 7.02 billion transacted in 119 deals as compared to the Kes 6.35 billion worth of bonds achieved in 111 deals in the preceding session.