NSE Market Summary
(9th December, 2020)
At the end of today's trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), a total of 17,893,800 shares in 691 deals corresponding to a market value of KES 516,769,289, were traded. Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Tuesday, December 8), today's data shows 16% decline in volume, 22% decline in turnover, and 24% decline in deals. The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.251 trillion.
In the aggregate, 44 listed securities participated in trading, ending with 18 gainers and 21 losers.
Top Gainers
Sanlam Kenya led the gainers with 9.55% share price appreciation closing as KES 12.05 per share, followed by Bamburi Cement (+9.48%), Liberty Kenya Holdings (+8.45%) and Sameer Africa (+5%).
Top Losers
On the losing side, Eveready East Africa came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 8.13% at KES 1.13 per share, followed by Nairobi Business Ventures (-6.26%), Kenya Re-Insurance Corporations (-5.07%) and Stanbic Holdings (-4.46%).
Top Movers
Safaricom recorded the highest volume of a 9 million traded shares, followed by Equity Group Holdings (4.92m), Kenya-ReInsurance Corporation (795,500) and KenGen (789,600)
Recommended Stock Purchase
I would recommend that investors buy Kenya Re-Insurance which has;
Price = KES 2.06
PE Ratio = 3.404
EPS = 0.6375
Market Capitalization = 6,075,557,910
The PE Ratio implies that the stock is undervalued and investors will earn good capital gains as the economy recovers from Covid-19
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