KCB - KCB Group
KCB Bank Kenya Limited, formerly Kenya Commercial Bank, is a Kenyan bank that provides corporate and retail banking services. It offers various personal banking products and services, such as savings and current accounts, personal loans, easy pay loans, salary advances, and credit facilities; Visa and MasterCard credit and prepaid cards; advantage banking services, and Biashara banking products. The company, which is overseen by the parent KCB Group Plc, also operates the Biashara Club that offers workshops on entrepreneurship and capacity building, networking, business advisory services, and business trips. Additionally, KCB provides corporate banking products such as custody and safe keeping services, transaction settlement, corporate actions administration, activity reporting, trustee, and capital and income services; asset finance and insurance premium finance services; corporate and trade finance products and services.
KCB Group is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). KCB is traded on the NSE under the ticker symbol “KCB”. The International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) of NSE:KCB is KE0000000315. KCB Group is currently the fourth most valuable stock on the NSE with a market capitalization of KES 96.4 billion, which is about 5.74% of the Nairobi Securities Exchange equity market.
| Last Trading Results | |
|---|---|
| Opening Price | |
| Day’s Low Price | 29.05 |
| Day’s High Price | 30.50 |
| Traded Volume | 11.8M |
| Number of Deals | 199 |
| Gross Turnover | 354M |
| Growth & Valuation | |
|---|---|
| Earnings Per Share | |
| Price/Earning Ratio | |
| Dividend Per Share | |
| Dividend Yield | |
| Shares Outstanding | 3.21B |
| Market Capitalization | 96.4B |
KCB Stock Market Performance
| 1WK | 4WK | 3MO |
|---|---|---|
| +11.1% | +17.4% | +43.2% |
| 6MO | 1YR | YTD |
|---|---|---|
| +50.8% | -11.5% | +37% |
The current share price of KCB Group (KCB) is KES 30.00. KCB closed its last trading day (Wednesday, April 24, 2024) at 30.00 KES per share on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), recording a 0.7% gain over its previous closing price of 29.80 KES. KCB began the year with a share price of 21.90 KES and has since gained 37% on that price valuation, ranking it second on the NSE in terms of year-to-date performance. Shareholders can be optimistic about KCB knowing the stock has accrued 17% over the past four-week period—fifth best on NSE.
KCB Group is the fourth most traded stock on the Nairobi Securities Exchange over the past three months (Jan 24 - Apr 24, 2024). KCB has traded a total volume of 127 million shares—in 6,246 deals—valued at KES 3.33 billion over the period, with an average of 2.02 million traded shares per session. A volume high of 15 million was achieved on March 21st, and a low of 2,100 on March 12th, for the same period. The table below details the last 10 trading days of activity of KCB on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
| Date | Volume | Close | Change | Change% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-24 | 11,784,500 | 30.00 | +0.20 | +0.67% |
| 2024-04-23 | 1,471,600 | 29.80 | +1.50 | +5.30% |
| 2024-04-22 | 46,200 | 28.30 | +0.35 | +1.25% |
| 2024-04-19 | 1,620,800 | 27.95 | +0.80 | +2.95% |
| 2024-04-18 | 2,857,100 | 27.15 | +0.15 | +0.56% |
| 2024-04-17 | 1,601,800 | 27.00 | -0.85 | -3.05% |
| 2024-04-16 | 847,500 | 27.85 | -1.10 | -3.80% |
| 2024-04-15 | 3,397,700 | 28.95 | -1.10 | -3.66% |
| 2024-04-12 | 3,708,400 | 30.05 | -0.25 | -0.83% |
| 2024-04-11 | 1,523,200 | 30.30 |
Profile of KCB Group Plc
KCB Group Plc operates in the Financials sector, specifically, the Banking industry.
Factsheet of KCB Group Plc
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry
- Banking
- Address
- Kencom House, Moi Avenue, P. O. Box 48400-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
- Telephone
- +254-20-228-7000, +254-732-187-001, +254-711-087-001
- Website
- kcbgroup.com
KCB Industrial Market Competitors
KCB Group Plc, issuers of the KCB stock on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, have a number of market competitors who are also engaged in the Financials sector and/or Banking industry. The table below presents an overview of the market standing of the top 10 by year-to-date performance.
| Code | Name | M. Cap. | Close | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EQTY | Equity Group Holdings Limited | 155B | 41.05 | +22% |
| ABSA | Absa Bank Kenya Plc | 72B | 13.25 | +15.7% |
| NCBA | NCBA Group Plc | 72.8B | 44.20 | +13.5% |
| IMH | I&M Holdings Plc | 28.4B | 17.15 | -2% |
| BKG | BK Group Plc | 31.4B | 35.00 | -2.23% |
| LBTY | Liberty Kenya Holdings Limited | 2.75B | 5.14 | +39.3% |
| COOP | Co-operative Bank of Kenya Limited | 81.8B | 13.95 | +22.4% |
| BRIT | Britam Holdings Limited | 13.8B | 5.46 | +14% |
| HFCK | HF Group Limited | 1.52B | 3.96 | +13.8% |
| DTK | Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Limited | 14B | 49.95 | +10.9% |
