At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
A total of 68,021,400 shares in 1,213 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 2,501,308,775.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, November 25), today’s data shows 72% improvement in volume, 64% improvement in turnover, but 6% decline in deals.
The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.5 trillion.
In the aggregate, 46 NSE equities participated in trading, ending with 26✅ gainers and 13 🔻losers.
Nairobi Business Ventures [NBV] led the gainers with ✅7.17% share price appreciation closing at KES 5.68 per share, followed by:
✅ CIC Insurance Plc [CIC] (+5.5%)
✅ Uchumi Supermarkets Plc [UCHM] (+4.55%)
✅HF Group Plc [HFCK] (+4.35%).
On the losing side, Trans Century Plc [TCL] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of🔻 5.38% at KES 1.23 per share, followed by:
🔻 Unga Group Plc [UNGA] (-3.33%)
🔻 Jubilee Holdings Plc [JUB](-2.58%)
🔻 Stanbic Holdings Plc [SBIC] (-2.15%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 62.8 million traded shares, followed by:
➖ Absa Bank Kenya Plc [ABSA] (1.28m)
➖ KenGen Plc [KEGN] (733,700)
➖ Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY](719,000)
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] gained
2.63 points to close at 164.77
The NSE 20 Share Index gained14.42 points to close at 1886.35
The NSE 25 Share Index gained 33.11 points to close at 3668.11
Bonds & Derivatives on NSE.
The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded a slump in activity with 2 single stock features valued at Kes 56,430 traded during today’s trading session compared to the 3 single stock features valued at Kes 134,730 traded during the previous trading session.
Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a rise in turnover during Today’s trading session, with bonds valued at Kes 5.57 billion transacted in 130 deals compared to the Kes 4.88 billion worth of bonds achieved in 102 deals traded at the close of the previous trading session.