Market Report; 28 June 2021

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

A total of 18,713,100 shares in 1,025 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 632,959,530.00, were traded.

Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, June 25), today’s data shows 6% improvement in volume, 4% improvement in turnover, and 10% improvement in deals.

The current market capitalization of the Nairobi Securities Exchange is KES 2.61 trillion.

In the aggregate, 45 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 25✅ gainers and 12? losers.

Nation Media Group Plc [NMG] led the gainers with✅ 8.46% share price appreciation closing at KES 25.00 per share, followed by:

✅Nairobi Securities Exchange Plc [NSE] (+6.34%)
✅Nairobi Business Ventures[NBV] (+5.76%)
✅I&M Holdings Plc [IMH] (+4.27%)

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On the losing side, Crown PaintsPlc [CRWN] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of? 10% at KES 36.00 per share, followed by:

?Total Kenya Plc [TOTL] (-6.8%)
? BOC Gases Kenya Plc [BOC] (-2.97%)
? Umeme Limited [UMME] (-2.67%).

Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 5.1 million traded shares, followed by:

➖ Nation Media Group Plc [NMG] (4.54m)
➖ Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (4.16m)
➖ Kenya Power & Lighting Company Plc [KPLC] (1.75m)

The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] gained 0.21 points to close at 171.83
The NSE 20 Share Index gained19.55 points to close at 1918.66
The NSE 25 Share Index gained 14.93 points to close at 3764.12

Bonds & Derivatives on NSE

The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a drop in activity during Today’s trading session, with 35 single stock futures contracts valued at Kes 934,690 concluded, compared to the 28 contracts valued at Kes 1.10 million concluded on the previous session.

Trading on the secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange posted a decline in activity during today’s trading session with bonds worth Kes 3.74  billion transacted in 46 deals as compared to the Kes 4.27 billion worth of bonds achieved in 70 deals in the preceding session.