Daily Market Brief,
Stocks prices turned up 0.5% on average on Tuesday, 23rd September 2025. Major rises were noted in the Insurance sector, telecommunication and the exchange traded funds which recorded 1.3%, 0.7% and 0.4% average gains, respectively. NSE 10 gained 0.7% followed by NSE 25 and NSE 20 with 0.6% and 0.5% in that order.
Shares traded jumped 176.7% up from 11.23Mn to 31.08Mn shares to triple the day’s turnover from KES 337.54Mn to KES 1,055.35Mn.
KCB Group maintained the top mover position with KES 636.78Mn from 11.47Mn shares. This saw the Bank’s price expand 2.3% from KES 54.25 to KES 55.50 per share supported by its improved valuation. Safaricom came second with KES 125.66Mn from 4.35Mn shares whose price attracted 0.7% to KES 28.90 per share.
Foreign activity further shrunk to 10.0% on average with an improved net foreign inflows of KES 81.78Mn compared to an average of 29.9% of KES 76.35Mn net foreign outflows traded on Monday.
The re-opened FXD1/2022/25 (22.2years) paper, emerged the day’s top mover after trading KES 3.83Bn while its yield to maturity dropped 35.0bps from 14.1423% accepted in the primary to 13.9289% on its first trading day. Market attention also remained on IFB1/2018/15 and IFB1/2022/19 which were-opened in August 2025.
