Daily Market Brief
Equities prices dropped marginally on Friday, 12th September 2025, held down by losses in the investment services, manufacturing and the energy sector which lost 1.9%, 1.5% and 1.0% respectively. Week on week, stock prices were up 0.2% on average.
Shares traded further declined 67.0% from 42.66Mn to 14.10Mn shares to pull down the turnover 67.2% down from KES 907.13Mn to KES 297.76Mn. KCB Group retained the mover position with KES KES 123.56Mn from 2.33Mn shares whose price stabilized at KES 53.00 per share.
Foreign activity remained low with a marginal rise from 10.4% to 11.4% with a decline in net foreign outflows from KES 101.36Mn to KES 43.64Mn.
Secondary bonds activity remained quite stable trading KES 7.21Bn from 181 deals compared to KES 7.69Bn from 188 deals traded on Thursday. Week on week, the value traded shrunk 18.9% from KES 48.54Bn to KES 39.36Bn as the market activity dropped 7.0% to 951 deals on impact from the ongoing primary sale.
The primary auction for FXD1/2018/020(12.5-yrs) of 13.20% coupon and FXD1/2022/025(22.2-Yrs) of 14.188% coupon is due next week on Wednesday, 17th September 2025. Watch out for our pre-auction advisory note.
