Daily Market Brief
Equities were up 0.2% on Monday, 25th August 2025, with some major growths on the manufacturing, investment, energy & petroleum and the agriculture sectors. This was as market attention remained on the telecommunication (Safaricom), Banks, energy & petroleum and the manufacturing sectors to emerge the top movers.
Shares traded dropped 8.5% from 25.75Mn to 23.56Mn shares to pull down the day’s value 23.7% from KES 508.38MN to KES 387.75Mn. Safaricom, Equity Group and British American Tobacco emerged the day’s top three movers.
Foreign activity reversed down from a high of 60.4% to 38.3% with a negative foreign outflows of KES 12.78Mn compared to a foreign inflow of KES 73.46Mn recorded last Friday.
Secondary bonds market value traded declined further from KES 4.12Bn to KES 3.64Bn upon the value payment for last week’s tap-sale. We expect the activity to improve in the remaining days of the week and the month, supported by the on-the-run papers.
