The Nairobi Securities Exchange is home to some of the largest companies in Kenya and East Africa.
These are the best performing companies in the last WEEK.
Equity Bank Limited is a financial services institution in Kenya providing banking products and services for the personal, commercial and corporate sectors. The company offers a full-service offering ranging from transactional accounts and digital banking to school fees collection, custody investment and group accounts, trade finance, asset finance and microfinance loans.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: 31.84%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 3.85%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: 23.21%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 6.85%
TotalEnergies Marketing Kenya Plc formerly (Total Kenya Limited) is the largest oil and gas marketer in Kenya with an extensive network of service stations and fuel depots, liquefied petroleum gas filling plants and aviation depots. The Kenyan oil and gas company is a subsidiary of the global Total Group which is the fourth-largest publicly traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world with a presence in over 100 countries.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: 31.15%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 4.99%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: 5.25%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 4.73%
Longhorn Publishers Plc publishes and sells educational and general books and distributes them through retail and ecommerce channels to customers in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Rwanda. Formerly known as Longhorn Kenya Limited, the company changed its name to Longhorn Publishers Limited in 2014.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: 8.70%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 5.04%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: 19.05%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 0.81%
TPS Eastern Africa (Serena) Limited owns and operates hotels and lodges in Kenya for the business and tourist sectors. The company owns and operates 35 hotels as well as a selection of resorts, safari guest lodges, safari camps, palaces and forts located in strategic sites in Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Uganda, Mozambique, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: 33.64%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 5.76%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: 11.36%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 11.36%
Car & General Limited supplies power generation, automotive, engineering and agricultural equipment in Kenya. The company also imports and markets brands which are global leaders in various markets; including two- and three-wheeler vehicles, tractors, outboard engines, air compressors, laundry equipment and water pumps.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: -8.37%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 6.73%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: 3.37%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 1.55%
BK Group Plc (Formerly Bank of Kigali Limited) is the largest bank in Rwanda by total assets, with 36.1% market share as of 31 March 2014. The Bank has a distribution network comprising 65 branches, 66 ATMs and 620 agent outlets and serves over 223,000 individuals and 20,000 legal entities.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: -2.47%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 6.77%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: 8.23%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 1.43%
Nairobi Business Venture (NBV) Limited deals primarily in the sale of imported leather shoes and leather accessories which are rebranded und the name KShoes (previously ‘Kwanza’ shoes). The shoes and accessories are imported from China and India and rebranded for the Kenyan domestic market.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: -17.86%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 6.98%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: 15.00%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 5.02%
Express Limited is a transport and logistics company in Kenya which offers services for goods clearing and forwarding and warehousing. The company transports goods to the major towns and cities in Kenya and depots in South Sudan, North Sudan, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and the DRC.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: -4.96%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 9.52%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: -1.43%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 9.52%
BOC Kenya Plc (BOC), established in Mombasa, Kenya, in 1940, is a leading supplier of industrial, medical and special gases in East Africa. In 1947 the company started operations in Nairobi and later years, in Kisumu, Kampala, Mwanza and Dar-es-Salaam.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: 11.25%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 9.88%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: -4.81%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 12.66%
East African Portland Cement Company Limited manufactures and sells cement for the building and construction sectors in East Africa. The company produces a range of cement products including Portland cement and Portland pozzolanic cement for cementing, mortar and concreate building applications.
- ★ 1 YEAR return: 375.00%
- ★ 1 WEEK return: 21.45%
- ★ 3 MONTH return: 532.40%
- ★ 1 MONTH return: 15.85%