Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) Live
| NASI Index | Year-to-Date | Market Cap. |
|---|---|---|
| 166.23 (-0.98) | -0.18 (0.11%) | KES 2.52Tr |
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 (19) | Bottom Losers (18) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C&G | 26.00 | +8.33% | UCHM | 0.25 | -7.41% |
| CARB | 9.08 | +6.82% | HAFR | 0.55 | -6.78% |
| UNGA | 34.65 | +6.62% | NBV | 0.70 | -5.41% |
| KQ | 2.39 | +5.29% | NMG | 35.80 | -5.29% |
| TCL | 2.40 | +4.80% | FIRE | 2.66 | -3.27% |
| HFCK | 6.12 | +4.79% | SASN | 17.85 | -3.25% |
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 FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020: At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), a total of 15,914,100 shares in 733 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 697,512,686.00, were traded. Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, January 16), today's data shows 29% decline in volume, 27% decline in turnover, and 15% decline in deals. The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.52 trillion.
In the aggregate, 48 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 19 gainers and 18 losers. Car and General (Kenya) led the gainers with 8.33% share price appreciation closing at KES 26.00 per share, followed by Carbacid Investments (+6.82%), Unga Group (+6.62%) and Kenya Airways (+5.29%). On the losing side, Uchumi Supermarket came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 7.41% at KES 0.25 per share, followed by Home Afrika (-6.78%), Nairobi Business Ventures Ltd (-5.41%) and Nation Media Group (-5.29%). Safaricom recorded the highest volume of 8.7 million traded shares, followed by KCB Bank Kenya (2.81m), Equity Group Holdings (1.44m) and East African Breweries (755,000).
Regarding the performance of NSE market indices, the benchmark NSE All Share Index (NASI) dropped 0.98 (-0.59%) points to close at 166.23, representing a 1-week loss of 2.99%, a 4-week gain of 3.95%, but an overall year-to-date loss of 0.11%. Other remarkable indices that performed were the NSE 20 Share Index (-0.02%; -1.18% 1WK; +0.56% YTD), NSE 25 Share Index (-0.12%; -2.51% 1WK; +0.04% YTD), FTSE NSE Kenya 25 Index (+0%; -3.06% 1WK; -0.22% YTD), and FTSE NSE Kenya 15 Index (+0%; -2.59% 1WK; -0.67% YTD).
