KCB - KCB Group Limited
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 Limited 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 Limited is currently the fourth most valuable stock on the NSE with a market capitalization of KES 70.9 billion, which is about 4.68% of the Nairobi Securities Exchange equity market.
| Last Trading Results | |
|---|---|
| Opening Price | |
| Day’s Low Price | 21.90 |
| Day’s High Price | 22.90 |
| Traded Volume | 284,500 |
| Number of Deals | 144 |
| Gross Turnover | 6.27M |
| Growth & Valuation | |
|---|---|
| Earnings Per Share | |
| Price/Earning Ratio | |
| Dividend Per Share | |
| Dividend Yield | |
| Shares Outstanding | 3.21B |
| Market Capitalization | 70.9B |
KCB Stock Market Performance
| 1WK | 4WK | 3MO |
|---|---|---|
| -1.34% | -7.16% | -24.7% |
| 6MO | 1YR | YTD |
|---|---|---|
| -37.9% | -43.5% | -42.1% |
The current share price of KCB Group Limited (KCB) is KES 22.05. KCB closed its last trading day (Tuesday, September 26, 2023) at 22.05 KES per share on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), recording a 0.9% drop from its previous closing price of 22.25 KES. KCB began the year with a share price of 38.10 KES but has since lost 42.1% off that price valuation, ranking it 60th on the NSE in terms of year-to-date performance. Shareholders’ worries are compounded by the fact that KCB has lost 7% of the stock’s value from August 29th to date.
KCB Group is the fifth most traded stock on the Nairobi Securities Exchange over the past three months (Jun 30 - Sep 26, 2023). KCB has traded a total volume of 36.2 million shares—in 7,825 deals—valued at KES 995 million over the period, with an average of 574,940 traded shares per session. A volume high of 4.5 million was achieved on July 7th, and a low of 64,200 on August 4th, 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% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-26 | 284,500 | 22.05 | -0.20 | -0.90% |
| 2023-09-25 | 538,700 | 22.25 | -0.10 | -0.45% |
| 2023-09-22 | 119,800 | 22.35 | +0.05 | +0.22% |
| 2023-09-21 | 109,000 | 22.30 | -0.05 | -0.22% |
| 2023-09-20 | 190,400 | 22.35 | ||
| 2023-09-19 | 184,500 | 22.35 | -0.05 | -0.22% |
| 2023-09-18 | 268,000 | 22.40 | +0.10 | +0.45% |
| 2023-09-15 | 442,400 | 22.30 | -0.35 | -1.55% |
| 2023-09-14 | 502,000 | 22.65 | -0.40 | -1.74% |
| 2023-09-13 | 216,300 | 23.05 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BKG | BK Group Plc | 32.2B | 35.95 | +14.1% |
| IMH | I&M Holdings Plc | 29.1B | 17.60 | +3.53% |
| ABSA | Absa Bank Kenya Plc | 64.4B | 11.85 | -3.66% |
| NCBA | NCBA Group Plc | 61.8B | 37.50 | -4.7% |
| EQTY | Equity Group Holdings Limited | 138B | 36.65 | -17.6% |
| HFCK | HF Group Limited | 1.81B | 4.70 | +47.3% |
| GLD | Absa NewGold ETF | 645M | 2,580.00 | +19.2% |
| SBIC | Stanbic Holdings Limited | 46.5B | 117.50 | +15.2% |
| SCBK | Standard Chartered Bank Limited | 61.8B | 163.50 | +14.5% |
| CIC | CIC Insurance Group Limited | 5.7B | 2.18 | +11.8% |
