At the end of Thursday’s trading session at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), 15,687,400 shares were traded in 1,126 deals, corresponding to a market value of KSh 511,759,007.00. This is an improvement from Wednesday’s turnover of KSh 414Million.
NSE recorded an 8% decline in volume, a 23% improvement in turnover, and a 2% decline in deals from the previous day’s trades.
Longhorn Publishers led the gainers with 4.98% share price appreciation closing at KSh 5.06 per share, followed by Kakuzi (3.19%), Trans Century (3.07%) and Flame Tree Group Holdings (2.68%).
On the losing side, Bamburi Cement led with price depreciation of 9.38% closing at KSh 33.80 per share, followed by Britam Holdings (8.51%), Home Afrika (6.12%) and Stanlib (6.00%).
Safaricom recorded the highest volume of 9.4 Million traded shares, valued at KSh 292Million changing hands at between KSh30.70 and KSh31.00; this represented 57.07% of the day’s traded value.
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index [NASI] gained 0.02 points to close at 144.92. The NSE 20 Share Index dropped 32.43 points to close at 1971.93. The NSE 25 Share Index gained 4.04 points to close at 3344.27
The Derivatives market traded 4 KCB futures contracts valued at KSh 136, 000 and expiring on 17th September.
The secondary bond market recorded a moderate rise in activity with bonds worth KSh 1.46 Billion traded in 85 deals compared to the KSh 1.29 Billion worth of bonds transacted in the previous trading session.
