1. Cigarette maker BAT Kenya

2. Standard Chartered Bank

3. Bamburi Cement

4. East Africa Breweries Limited

5. Barclays Bank of Kenya

These are companies that offered the highest returns to investors in 2010, earning them the top five positions in this year’s Capital Markets Awards.

KCB Bank, Nation Media Group, Safaricom, Jubilee Insurance and BOC Kenya completed the top 10 slots.

But where is Carbacid? Are these guys serious?


Then the sick boys of the industry are:

1. Equipment dealer A Baumann and Company, which equipment by the way.

2. Transport and logistics firm Express Kenya

3. Motor vehicle dealer Marshalls East Africa at Kamlesh Pattni

4. Flour miller Unga Group and Seaboard cousins

5. Investment company Olympia Capital Michael Matu and relatives

These are the companies that took the last five positions.

Isn't it fair to have these five de-listed or at least liquidated and the board heavily fined if found to have compromised on business ethics.

Must CMA wait till these sick guys are worth zero instead of salvaging the little still in place? Lakini, Express and Marshalls might survive.

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Is there something wrong with this paragraph

"BAT’s dividend pay-out of Sh14.75 per share was the highest in nominal terms, but earned the manufacturer the fifth position in dividend yield rankings, in a category that Safaricom, which paid a dividend of 40 cents per share took top position".

Highest returns in terms of what?
As far as am concerned returns to investors must be in the form of capital gains and to this BAT only increased by 51%, a far cry from Kakuzi's 156% or Eaagads 150% or even Scan's 141%!
To me dividend payout or return on Assets (ROA) doesnt matter to me if it doesnt trickle down to the Price!
Period!

Seems like this report is meant for the insider shareholder (aka business owners/directors) than the external shareholders...
Safcom took top position???

Actually the statement is ok, at an average price of 200 Bat's div yield was around 7% while at an average price of 4.50 safcom's was around 9%. The info is mostly targeted at large longterm investors.

You are right. I am also more keen on capital gain than dividend payouts. If you choose your buys well, you will always beat the dividend gains in some counters... actually, both the capital + dividend gains combined. eg mumias rose to over 300% in capital gains alone... i doubt some of the counters would reach that capital+dividend gains.

What is happening to KCB? It is now going backwards.

Elections? Elections arent there until sometime next year... i think that's far enough for any investors to have real election fever..... I'd think its other factors like - January being generally a slow month and with funds diverted, drought, the political bickering and ocampo fever (not sure where this might lead) etc

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Woi! What happened? You are now a 'User'. Pole sana lakini.