Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE)week on week Equity turnover stood at KSh 1.5 Billion on 49 Million shares against 1.57 Million shares on 45 Million shares traded the previous week.
Car&General is the weekly top gainer at the Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE) with its share price gaining 18.10% from KSh 58.00 to KSh 68.50.
It was followed by Express Kenya which gained 13.06% during the week from KSh 3.60 to KSh 4.07; Nairobi Business Ventures which rose 10.97% from KSh 4.65 to KSh 5.16; Kakuzi which appreciated by 8.835 from KSh 385.00 to KSh 419.00 and Olympia Capital Holdings which gained 5% from KSh 1.80 to KSh 1.89.
NSE INDICES
The NSE 20 Share Index was down 7.25 points to 1892.54 at the end of the week while the benchmark NSE All Share Index( NASI) lost 0.43 points to stand at 164.66. The NSE 25 Share Index shed 10.08 points during the week to settle at 3895.95.
The worst performers were led by Trans-Century which fell by 10.29% from KSh 1.36 to KSh 1.22 followed by Flame Tree which declined by 6.115 during the week from KSh 1.31 to KSh 1.23; Home Afrika which lost 5.26% from KSh 0.38 to KSh 0.36; Fahari I-Reit which declined by 4.92% from KSh 6.50 to KSh 6.18 and Kenya Power which lost 4.73% from KSh 1.69 to KSh 1.61
Safaricom was the most active counter during the week, transacting shares worth KSh 900 Million, which represented 58.06% of the week’s traded value. Its share price, however, declined by 1.06% to KSh 37.45 from KSh 37.85 the previous week.
The Banking sector moved shares worth KSh 573 Million or 36.94% of the week’s traded value. KCB share price dipped by 0.55% to KSh 44.90 from KSh 45.15 the previous week and traded shares worth KSh 286 Million. Equity Group was up 4.40% to KSh 51.50 and sold 4.3 Million shares valued at KSh 221 Million.
Other active counters included E.A Breweries which moved 26,000 shares worth KSh 4 Million at a price of KSh 159.00, Jubilee which sold 8,000 shares valued at 2.5 Million at a price of KSh 309.75 per share, BAT which moved 26,000 shares valued at KSh 11.8 Million at the price of KSh 448.00.
The secondary bond market had bonds worth KSh 9 Billion compared to KSh 19 billion the previous week.
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