NSE MONTHLY TRADING HIGHLIGHTS

April 2013

Market Indicators
CONTENT Table 1: Key Market Indicators -Monthly Comparisons
Market Indicator Mar.2013 Apr.2013 %Change
NSE 20 Share Index 4,861 4,765 (1.97)
Page NSE All Share Index (NASI) 118 118 -
Market Indicators--------------1 Market P/E Ratio 12 13 8.33
Market Capitalization (Kshs.billions) 1,600 1,602 0.13
No. of issued shares (billions) 80 80 -
Equity Market ------------------2 No. of shares traded (millions) 571 597 4.55
No. of equity transactions 34,443 39,859 15.72
Equity turnover (Kshs.millions)-ET 11,183 9,856 (11.87)
Bond Market -------------------3 % foreign participation to ET 48 43 (10.42)
Bond turnover (Kshs.billions) 26 35 34.62
Bond deals 342 452 32.16
Kshs/US Dollar currency exchange 86 84 (2.33)
No. of trading days 19 21 10.53

Table 2: Market Performance by Index for Selected African Markets

Market/Index Apr.25 2013 % change MTD %Change YTD
Rwanda RSE Index 217 0.73 34.52
Ghana-GSE ALSI 1,795 3.55 49.62
Zimbabwe-Industrial 189 2.82 24.06
Nigeria- All Share 33,271 (0.79) 18.49
BRVM-Composite 195.4 2.12 17.29
Uganda -All Share 1,525 (0.38) 26.74
Kenya-FTSE NSE 15 Index 154 (0.12) 22.66
Mauritius-Semdex 1,899 (1.37) 9.62
Botswana BSE DCI 8,699 3.56 15.83
Zambia-All Share 4,207 0.99 12.94
Namibia- Local 291 1.39 6.37
Tanzania -All Share 1,534 0.81 3.25
Tunisia- TUNIS 4,560 (3.51) (0.44)
South Africa-All Share 39,129 (1.84) (0.31)
Malawi- All Share 6,335 -0.14 5.32
Egypt-EGX 30 5,225 2.48 (4.34)
Swaziland- SSX All Share 287 - 0.41
Morocco-MORALSI 9,229 2.08 (1.39)
Source: respective markets, African Aliance Securities weekly report,
MTN-month to date, YTD-year to date

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 NSE MONTHLY TRADING HIGHLIGHTS
April 2013

Equity market
Year-to-date NSE 20 Share Index and FTSE NSE 15 gained 17.06 % and 25.73% to settle at 4765 and 155 points re-
spectively at the end of April 2013. Within the same month, market capitalization hit a historical mark of Kshs 1.6
trillion, gaining Kshs 214 billion in the period January-April 2013. Foreign investors’ participation slipped to 43% in
April 2013 from 48% in March 2013.

Actively traded counters during the month of April 2013 were: Safaricom, Kenya Commercial Bank, Mumias Sugar
Company, Equity Bank, Kenol Kobil,British-
Fig 1: NSE 20 Share Index American Investment Co.,CIC Insurance, The Coop-
5000
erative Bank, Barclays Bank of Kenya, KenGen and
4800 Kenya Power.
4600
4400
Index value

4200
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Fig 5: actively traded counters
3800 16,411,665.00 11,562,045.00 10,016,223.00
3600
19,175,945.00 15,525,649.00
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30,296,269.00
Fig 2: NSE All Share Index (NASI)
43,559,888.00
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Safaricom Kenya Commercial Bank

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Mumias Sugar Company Equity Bank
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Kenol\Kobil British-American Investments Co.(Kenya) Ltd
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CIC Insurance The Co-operative Bank
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 NSE MONTHLY TRADING HIGHLIGHTS
April 2013

Bond market

April 2013 bond turnover was up 35% to Kshs 35 billion from the previous month’s figure of Kshs 26.0 billion.

The most traded bond was a 12 year infrastructure bond, IFB1/2011/012, which had 174 deals at a high and low
yield of 13.50% and 10.30% respectively. It was followed by a 10 year bond, FXD1/2012/010, trading 118 deals on
high and low yield of 13.86% and 12.80% respectively.

Fig 6: Bond yields Fig 7: Bond turnovers

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Kshs.Billions

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Yield (%)

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Maturity (years)

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