In this guide
The top of the page
Open Safaricom. A breadcrumb at the top reads Stocks, then the sector, then the company; the sector link opens every other company in that sector. Below it are the company's logo, its full name with the ticker (SCOM, the short code the exchange uses), and a line with the ticker, sector, exchange and currency. Then comes the price.
- Prices at close of: the session the figures belong to, for example Thu 22 Oct 2026. Everything on the page is from that session unless it says otherwise.
- KES price: the closing price of that session, in shillings and cents. Under Rule 7.6 of the NSE Equity Trading Rules a close is the volume-weighted average price of all the share's trades in the session, and if fewer than 100 shares trade, the previous average stands. It is not what you would pay right now.
- Change: the move from the previous close as a percentage, with an arrow and colour for up or down, and beside it the same move in shillings.
- Prev close: the session before, so you can see the two numbers the change was made from.
- Last close · with a date replaces the previous close when a share has not had a close for some time, because there the date is the information.
A suspended company shows a Suspended tag beside its last price: the NSE has stopped trading in the share, usually pending an announcement or restructuring.
Share price
The share price block is a line through the daily closes we hold. The tabs (1W, 1M, 3M, 1Y, 5Y, Max) change the window, and the change over the chosen window is shown beside them. A tab stays visible but cannot be selected when the window holds too few sessions, which is the case for a newly listed share.
For most companies the record runs back many years: Safaricom's starts on its listing day, 9 June 2008. If a stretch of sessions holds no closes, the line stops and restarts rather than being drawn across the gap as if prices were known.
- Dashed line on 1W and 1M: the previous close, so you can see the latest move against it.
- Crosshair: move a finger, the mouse or the arrow keys along the line to read the close on any date.
- Axis labels: the price scale on the side and the dates along the bottom.
Key figures
| Figure | How it is worked out | What it does not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | Last close × shares in issue | Whether the company is expensive or cheap; it is a size measure |
| Volume | Shares traded in the session, with the share of that day's total NSE volume | Who was buying or selling |
| Shares in issue | The number of shares in issue, from the company's filings | How many are freely traded; some are held by government or founders |
| 52-week range | The lowest and highest closes in the last year | Anything about the next year |
| P/E ratio | Price ÷ earnings per share from the latest results | Reads Not yet available until the figure is published |
| Dividend yield | Dividends per share in the last twelve months ÷ last close, marked Trailing 12 months | What the next dividend will be; reads Not yet available where no figure is held |
| Turnover | The shilling value of the shares traded in the session | Whether the trades were large or small |
| By market cap | The company's rank on the NSE by size and its share of the whole exchange | How the rank moves; it changes with every close |
| Share of NSE volume | The company's shares traded as a share of all NSE shares traded that day, with its rank | Whether a high share came from one large trade |
| From 52-week high | How far the last close sits below the highest close of the last year | Why the price moved |
| Listed since | The date the share was first listed on the NSE | How long the company has existed; that is in Company details |
Beneath the figures sit two cards. 52-week range places the latest close on a bar between the year's low and high and says how far along the range it is. Volume gives the exact number of shares traded, the company's share of NSE volume and the market's total, which is the quickest way to see whether a big price move came with real trading behind it or a handful of shares.
Backtest
The backtest block answers one question with the company's own history: if you had bought KES 1,000 of the share every month over the period shown (ten years, from 2016, for Safaricom), what would the shares be worth at the latest close? It shows what was put in, how many shares that bought, how many more came from reinvesting the dividends, and the value today with the gain or loss in per cent.
A different start date or amount gives a different answer. Open backtest takes you to the full backtester, where you choose the company, the amount, how often you buy and the period. It describes what happened, not what will happen.
Dividends
The dividends block lists the company's latest dividends: the type (interim, final or special, with the financial year), the amount per share in shillings, the book closure date and the payment date. A payment still to come is tagged Upcoming. The line at the top adds up the last twelve months, for Safaricom KES 2.00 per share, with the yield on the latest close (2.00 ÷ 34.10 = 5.87 % at the 22 October 2026 close).
Amounts are before withholding tax. A company with no dividend listed says so in one sentence. Book closure, the last day to buy and how tax is taken are explained in How dividends work in Kenya, which the block links to.
About, news and FAQs
About is a short hand-written description of what the company does and how it came to be listed; it appears only when written. News lists the newest headlines from Kenyan publishers that mention the company, each with the publisher's name and the date; the headline links to the publisher's own page, and a link below the list (All Safaricom news) opens the company's full list.
The FAQs block answers the things people ask a search engine about the company, from the same data: what the price is and on which date, what one share and 1,000 shares cost, its latest dividend, how actively it trades, how to buy it from Kenya or abroad, and its highest close on record. The answers follow the latest close, so they change after each session.
Company details
- Details: ticker, ISIN, sector, market segment, listing date, founding year, headquarters, shares in issue, currency and website, where we hold them.
- How to buy shares: the three steps in brief (open a CDS account, fund it, place your order), linking to the full guide.
On a wide screen these sit in a column beside the main blocks; on a phone they follow the main content.
Reading the page as a whole
The numbers answer narrow questions: what did it close at, how far is that from last year's high, was the volume unusual, how big is the company, what has it paid. Read together they describe where a share is today and where it has been. They do not describe where it is going, and KenyaStocks does not add opinion, ratings or projections to them. The NASI page gives the same day's picture for the whole market, and the sector pages put the company beside its peers.
Data by Mansa Markets. Every headline links to its publisher.
Sources
- KenyaStocks: data credits
- Mansa Markets
- Nairobi Securities Exchange: Equity Trading Rules, amended July 2025 (PDF), Rule 7.6 (closing price)
- Nairobi Securities Exchange: listed companies
Sources checked · General information, not investment advice.
