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East African Cables Emerges Top Gainer of the Day

BY Soko Directory Team · April 8, 2016 03:04 pm

The top gainer of the day at the NSE was E.A Cables Ltd with a positive gain of 9.56 percent at a price of 7.45 shillings per share. The company was closely followed by Carbacid Investments Ltd with 8.11 percent at a price of 16.00 shillings per share while Mumias Sugar Company Ltd emerged with 7.14 percent at a price of 1.50 shillings per share. Home Africa Ltd and Eveready East Africa Ltd each gained 5.88 and 5.26 percent respectively at a price of 1.80 and 3.00 shillings per share respectively.

The table below gives a broader perspective of what happened among the top gainers

STOCK	DEMAND	SUPPLY	BID	PRICE	DEALS
CABL	50,100	11,700	6.15	7.45	7
CARB	237,800	42,800	14.75	16.00	2
MSC	1,828,100	385,500	1.30	1.50	40
HAFR	189,700	33,800	1.60	1.80	17
EVRD	69,000	173,000	2.60	3.00	34

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This is how things went down:

Longhorn Kenya Ltd was not lucky today. The company emerged as the top loser of the day having lost 9.43 percent at a price of 4.80 shillings per share. Express Ltd came in second with a negative deviation of 9.30 percent at a price of 3.90 shillings per share. Pan African Insurance Holdings Ltd, Sameer Africa Ltd and Sasini Tea and Coffee Ltd each lost 6.92, 5.71 and 5.50 percent respectively at a price of 37.00, 3.30 and 18.90 shillings per share respectively.

The table below shows how things went down among the top losers of the day:

STOCK	DEMAND	SUPPLY	BID	PRICE	DEALS
LKL	8,400	82,900	4.80	4.80	11
XPRS	10,000	5,200	3.90	3.90	1
PAFR	18,500	12,000	36.00	37.00	5
FIRE	221,800	342,100	3.00	3.30	26
SASN	40,500	113,100	18.50	18.90	9

See how things went down below:

The table below shows the top movers of the day led by Safaricom Ltd which presented a volume of 7.68 million and a market capital of 673.10 billion.

MOVERS	VOLUME	MARKET CAPITAL
SCOM	7.68 M	673.10 B
EQTY	3.38 M	153.78 B
KCB	2.19 M	127.05 B
KPLC	540,300	20.88 B
ARM	509,300	14.61 B

Article by Juma Fred.

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