The Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE) listed East African Portland Cement Company(PORT) as the top price gainer when trading ended at the bourse this Friday, 23rd July 2021, two consecutive times this week
Its share price was up 9.87% to close at KSh 8.68 per share this Friday. This is compared to Thursday when it was also the top price gainer, its share price rising 9.72% to close at KSh 7.90 from the previous KSh 7.20.
When the bourse closed this Friday, a total of 9,531,700 shares in 1,044 deals, translating to a market value of KSh 340,837,729.00, were traded.
Compared with Thursday, July 22nd, Friday’s data shows a 31% improvement in volume and 26% improvement in turnover and a 15% rise in the number of transactions.
The Nairobi bourse has a market cap of KSh 2,789.04 Billion.
NSE top gainers and losers
A total of 52 listed equities participated in Friday’s trading session, ending with 21 gainers and 18 losers.
PORT was followed by other gainers, including Sameer Africa, which was up 9.52% to KSh 3.45, Unga Group, which appreciated by 9.38% to KSh 29.75, STANLIB Fahari Income REIT which was up 7.19% to KSh 7.16 and NSE, which gained 6.65% on its share price to close at KSh 8.98.
The worst performing counters were led by Home Afrika, whose share price declined by 9.09% to close the day at KSh 0.40 per share, followed by Standard Group, which fell by 7.65% to KSh 17.50, Nairobi Business Ventures, which was down by 4.23% to KSh 9.06, Liberty Kenya Holdings whose share price which fell 4.21% to KSh 9.56 and Limuru Tea which lost 3.45% to close at KSh 280.00.
Safaricom was the biggest mover with a volume of 6.66 Million shares traded, followed by Britam Holdings (517,400), KCB Group (476,900), Kenya Power & Lighting Company (474,800) and WPP ScanGroup( 229,300).
In the Secondary Bonds Market, there was a turnover of KSh 4.2 Billion worth of bonds in 70 deals compared to KSh 4.1 Billion in 78 deals on Thursday.
The Derivatives Market posted 15 single stock futures contracts valued at KSh 675,000 concluded, compared to 33 contracts valued at KSh 796,350 transacted during the Thursday session.
Total Derivatives turnover was KSh 675,000.
The benchmark NASI All-Share Index was 178.98 compared to 179.01 on Thursday while the NSE 20 Share Index was 1981.91 compared to 1978.99 on Thursday. The NSE 25 Share Index was 3895.50 compared to 3896.89 on Thursday.
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