Daily Market Brief
Stock prices were marginally up on Friday, 8th August 2025, gaining 0.1% up to push the market cap to 0.1% up to KES 2,539.53Bn. NSE 20 stocks gained the most at 0.8% followed by NSE 25 and NSE 10 with 0.4% and 0.2%, respectively.
Week on week, the stock prices were up 1.4% as measured by the Nairobi all share index (NASI).
Daily shares traded declined 61.6% from 21.02Mn to 8.08Mn to pull down the value traded 63.8% from KES 596.45Mn to KES 215.86Mn. EABL emerged the day’s top mover with KES 49.24Mn after trading 236,724 shares.
Equity Group followed with KES 43.84MN after trading 834,962 shares a head of its Q2-2025 financials set to announced on Monday, 11th August 2025. The Bank’s price improved 1.0% from KES 52.00 to KES 52.50 per share.
Secondary bonds value traded dropped 30.0% from KES 11.49Bn to KES 8.05Mn as the market focus remained on the recently opened normal papers, led by FXD1/2020/15 which traded KES 2.30Bn.
The National Treasury re-opened two infrastructure papers, IFB1/2018/015 (7.5-yrs) and IFB1/2022/019 (15.6-yrs) for August 2025 primary auction seeking KES 90 billion from the public. Watch out for our pre-auction advisory note.
