CTUM - Centum Investment Company

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CTUM share price on Nairobi Securities Exchange

Centum Investment Company Plc is East Africa’s leading investment firm providing investors with access to a portfolio of inaccessible, diversified investments. Headquartered in Kenya, but also operating in Uganda and Tanzania, the company invests in sectors including real estate, fast-moving consumer goods, and financial services. Centum’s business model currently focuses on companies in sectors with (1) growing domestic and regional markets targeted at households and private businesses; (2) basic goods and services whose demand increase as purchasing power increases; and (3) products and services with limited scope for import substitution.

Centum operates through four major segments: (1) The Growth Segment represents the trading subsidiaries or investments that have progressed to the cash generative stage. (2) The Real Estate Segment comprises all the group companies involved in real estate development such as Two Rivers, Vipingo, and Pearl Marina. (3) The Development Segment includes all companies whose business are still in the establishment, and ramp up phase such as those in the power, education, and agribusiness sectors. (4) The Marketable Securities Segment focuses on investment of funds in quoted equity and fixed income securities.

Centum Investment Company is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). Centum is traded on the NSE under the ticker symbol “CTUM”. The International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) of NSE:CTUM is KE0000000265. Centum Investment Company is currently the 24th most valuable stock on the NSE with a market capitalization of KES 8.98 billion, which makes about 0.293% of the Nairobi Securities Exchange equity market.

CTUM Stock Market Performance

The current share price of Centum Investment Company (CTUM) is KES 13.50. CTUM closed its last trading day (Thursday, January 22, 2026) at 13.50 KES per share on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). Centum began the year with a share price of 13.05 KES and has since gained 3.45% on that price valuation, ranking it 26th on the NSE in terms of year-to-date performance.

Centum Investment Company is the 27th most traded stock on the Nairobi Securities Exchange over the past three months (Oct 22, 2025 - Jan 22, 2026). CTUM has traded a total volume of 3.76 million shares—in 2,868 deals—valued at KES 53.5 million over the period, with an average of 59,615 traded shares per session. A volume high of 315,636 was achieved on November 6th, and a low of 1,220 on January 6th, for the same period. The table below details the last 10 trading days of activity of Centum Investment on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.

Profile of Centum Investment Company Plc

Centum Investment Company Plc was founded on March 31, 1967 and operates in the Financials sector, specifically, the Investment Services industry. Centum Investment Company contracts an estimated total number of 1,082 employees.

CTUM Industrial Market Competitors

Centum Investment Company Plc, issuers of the CTUM stock on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, have a number of market competitors who are also engaged in the Financials sector and/or Investment Services industry. The table below presents an overview of the market standing of the top 10 by year-to-date performance.

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