The Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE) saw the dominance of five listed firms, whose total market turnover was KSh 1.8 Billion, accounting for 91.2% of the total turnover.
The top five were Safaricom, which had a weekly turnover of KSh 1.3 Billion or 65.7%, followed by Equity Group (KSh 316.2 Million) or 16.3%, Standard Chartered Bank Kenya (KSh 85.3 Million) or 4.4%, Umeme (KSh 53.2 Million) or 2.7% and Stanbic (KSh 41.6 Million) or 2.1%.
Turnover at the NSE, at the close of the prior week, was dominated by Safaricom at KSh 961.4 Million of 71.8%, followed by Equity Group (KSh 105.23 Million) or 7.74%, KCB (KSh 103.7 Million) or 7.74%, SCBK (KSh 45.6 Million) or 3.40% and EABL (KSh 45.13 Million) or 3.37%.
According to the Barometer, an NSE Weekly Bulletin, the market’s capitalization closed the week at KSh 2,413.88 billion, a 2.14% increase from the prior week’s 2,466.54 billion.
Activity in the Secondary Bonds market decreased by 20.83% to close the week at KSh 12,182.13 Million from KSh 15,386.96 Million the prior week.
There was a net outflow of KSh750.83 Million made by foreign investors during the week, from last week’s outflow of KSh 574.49 Million.
The NSE 20-share index closed the week at 1,853.74 points, a 1.00% decrease from the preceding week’s figure of 1,872.39.
Equally, the All-share index decreased by 2.13% to close the week at 154.85 points from the prior week’s figure of 158.22 points.
The NSE 25 Share Index decreased by 1.69% to close the week at 3,528.49 points from the prior week’s figure of 3,588.99 points.
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