Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) Live
| NASI Index | Year-to-Date | Market Cap. |
|---|---|---|
| 157.56 (-0.63) | +5.45 (3.58%) | KES 2.37Tr |
The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), established in 1954 as Nairobi Stock Exchange, is the leading stock exchange in East Africa. It is based in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya - one of the fastest-growing economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The NSE, which demutualized and self-listed in 2014, operates under the jurisdiction of the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya, and is governed by an 11-member board of directors. The Exchange offers a world class trading facility for both local and international investors looking to gain exposure to the country's rising economy. In 2008, in order to provide a comprehensive measure of the performance of the stock market, the NSE introduced the NSE All Share Index (NASI) as a market capitalization-weighted index, with a base value of 100, consisting of all listed securities, effectively making it the benchmark index for the Kenyan stock market. The NSE 25 Share Index measures the top 25 companies.
| Top Gainers (15) | Bottom Losers (20) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XPRS | 3.60 | +8.76% | LBTY | 7.20 | -10.00% |
| HAFR | 0.39 | +8.33% | KNRE | 2.50 | -5.30% |
| LKL | 4.90 | +8.17% | KPLC | 1.64 | -5.20% |
| SBIC | 84.75 | +5.28% | BRIT | 7.10 | -4.83% |
| UCHM | 0.25 | +4.17% | WTK | 130.00 | -2.26% |
| FAHR | 6.32 | +2.93% | CTUM | 17.10 | -1.72% |
Listed companies/securities
The NSE maintains four market listing categories, namely, the Main Investment Market Segment, Alternate Investment Market Segment, Fixed Income Securities Market Segment, and Growth Enterprises Market Segment. The first three were created in 2001 to cater for stocks of large and medium-sized companies, and corporate and government bonds. In 2013, the Growth segment was launched to give small enterprises an opportunity to also access the capital markets.
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NSE TRADING SUMMARY FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2021: At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), a total of 11,543,300 shares in 967 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 364,221,335.00, were traded. Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Friday, January 15), today's data shows 52% decline in volume, 53% decline in turnover, and 5% decline in deals. The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.37 trillion.
In the aggregate, 43 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 15 gainers and 20 losers. Express Kenya led the gainers with 8.76% share price appreciation closing at KES 3.60 per share, followed by Home Afrika (+8.33%), Longhorn Publishers (+8.17%) and Stanbic Holdings (+5.28%). On the losing side, Liberty Kenya Holdings came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 10% at KES 7.20 per share, followed by Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation (-5.3%), Kenya Power & Lighting Company (-5.2%) and Britam Holdings (-4.83%). Safaricom recorded the highest volume of 8.3 million traded shares, followed by Bamburi Cement (531,700), Kenya Power & Lighting Company (486,400) and Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation (413,600).
Regarding the performance of NSE market indices, the benchmark NSE All Share Index (NASI) shed 0.63 (-0.4%) points to close at 157.56, representing a 1-week gain of 2.36%, a 4-week gain of 7.68%, and an overall year-to-date gain of 3.58%. Other remarkable indices that performed were the NSE 20 Share Index (-0.68%; +0.75% 1WK; +2.05% YTD), NSE 25 Share Index (-0.28%; +1.27% 1WK; +1.89% YTD), FTSE NSE Kenya 15 Index (-0.46%; +0.11% 1WK; +0.41% YTD), and FTSE NSE Kenya 25 Index (-0.48%; +1.53% 1WK; +2.62% YTD).
