How to read a company page
A company page on KenyaStocks is a dozen numbers and a chart. Each one answers a specific question, and each has a limit to what it can tell you. This guide walks down the page block by block, using Safaricom as the example, and says where every figure comes from.
In this guide
The top of the page
Open Safaricom. The first row shows the company's logo, its full name, the ticker (SCOM, the short code the exchange uses) and its sector chip, which links to every other company in that sector. On the right is the price block.
- KES price: the last closing price, in shillings and cents. It is the price at 3.00 pm on the latest session the exchange has completed, not what you would pay right now.
- Change pill: the move from the previous close as a percentage, green for up, red for down, grey for unchanged. Beside it the same move in shillings.
- Prev close: yesterday's close, so you can see the two numbers the pill was made from.
- No date beside a current price: the figures belong to the latest session the exchange has closed, and the questions block at the foot of the page names it. A share that has stopped being priced shows Last close · with its date, and a suspended one Last traded ·, because there the date is the information.
A suspended company shows an amber Suspended pill and its last traded price in muted grey, with no chart: the NSE has stopped trading in the share, usually pending an announcement or restructuring. A company the price feed does not yet cover shows Not yet in feed everywhere a price would be, rather than a zero or a dash.
The chart
The chart is a line through the daily closes we hold, with volume bars along the bottom. The period pills (1W, 1M, 3M, 1Y, 5Y, Max) change the window. A pill is greyed out, not hidden, when the window holds fewer than two sessions, which is the case for a newly listed share.
The record runs from 2006 or 2007 to the latest session. Closes to the end of 2024 come from the University of Nairobi datasets published by B. Wanjawa under the CC BY 4.0 licence, with gaps filled from kwoshvick's NSE price crawler; 2025 and the first half of 2026 come from the same author's later datasets; and from July 2026 the official closes come each evening from Kingdom Securities' daily report (AIB-AXYS's report added traded volumes for July to September 2026), with Mansa Markets supplying the day's last traded prices, volumes and company figures. Every source is credited under How the numbers are produced. If a stretch of sessions ever holds no closes, the chart shows it as a hatched break labelled no data: the line stops and restarts, and is never drawn across a gap as if prices were known.
- Dashed line: the previous close, so you can see today's move against it.
- Price badge on the right axis: the last close.
- Line or candles: candles show the day's open, high, low and close wherever the record holds them, which is the university datasets up to 30 June 2026. For the sessions after that the sources print only the closing price, so the bar runs from the previous close to the close and is marked close only when you point at it.
- History starts note: under the chart while the record spans less than a year, naming the first date we hold.
Key figures
| Figure | How it is worked out | What it does not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | Last close × shares in issue. Safaricom's is the largest on the NSE, more than a third of the exchange | Whether the company is expensive or cheap; it is a size measure |
| Shares outstanding | 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 high and low | The highest and lowest closes in the last year of rows we hold | Anything about the next year |
| Volume | Shares traded in the session, and the share of that day's total NSE volume | Who was buying or selling |
| P/E ratio | Price ÷ earnings per share from the latest results | Reads Not yet available until the data source publishes it |
| Dividend yield | Last twelve months' dividends per share ÷ price | Reads Not yet available until a dividend table exists; see the dividends guide |
Beneath the figures sit two cards. 52-week range places today's close on a bar between the year's low and high. Volume compares the day's traded shares with the company's recent average and with the whole market, which is the quickest way to see whether a big price move came with real trading behind it or a handful of shares.
About, news and questions
About is a short hand-written description of what the company does, with its founding year and headquarters where we hold them; it appears only when written. News lists the newest headlines from Kenyan publishers that mention the company, each with the publisher's chip and the date; the headline links to the publisher's own page. Headlines are matched to companies by name and alias, and a match the software is not sure about is left out of this list.
The questions block answers the things people ask a search engine about the company, from the same data: what the price is and on which date, how it moved, and how to buy the share through a licensed broker. The answers are generated from the day's rows, so they change when the data does.
The right-hand column
- Details: ticker, sector, security type (ordinary share, preference share, REIT or ETF), ISIN, listing date and website.
- Most traded: the busiest companies on the market, each with its one-month sparkline.
- How to buy shares: the three steps in brief, linking to the full guide.
On a phone the column stacks under the main content, and a small sticky header with the ticker and price appears once the top of the page scrolls away.
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. Read together they describe where a share is today. 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.
Every figure on the page has a source: Mansa Markets for daily prices and NASI, the open datasets and broker reports for the history, company filings for shares in issue and the publishers for headlines. The footer names them, and the About page sets out how each is produced.
Common questions
Is the price on the company page today's trading price?
No. It is the closing price from the latest session the exchange has completed, published after 3.00 pm. Your broker app shows the bids and offers as they stand during the day.
How far back does the chart go?
To 2006 or 2007 for most companies, and to the listing date for younger ones. The closes come from open datasets up to June 2026 and from Kingdom Securities' daily report since July 2026, with last-traded prices, volumes and company figures by Mansa Markets; every source is listed on the About page.
Why does P/E or dividend yield say Not yet available?
Because the data source has not published the figure, or because KenyaStocks does not yet hold a dividend table. The page says so rather than estimating.
Sources
Last reviewed · General information, not investment advice.