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KCB, NSE and Safaricom top corporate governance ranking

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 15 – KCB Group, Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), and Safaricom tied as the Top 3 companies with the best corporate governance practices among listed companies in Kenya in 2018.

This is according to the annual Cytonn Corporate Governance Report – 2018, that indicates firms with higher levels of corporate governance, outperformed those with lower levels of corporate governance, by 15 percent when looking at share price performance over the last five years.

The ranking is based on 24 metrics that consider different aspects of governance, including board composition, ethnic and gender diversity, board meeting attendance, board independence, remuneration, and overall transparency.

KCB Group, NSE and Safaricom all tied at the 1st rank, each having attained a comprehensive score of 85.4 percent, supported by, among others; gender and ethnic diversity in the board composition, a good proportion of independent directors, defined tenures to accommodate rotation, and high level of exposure to of board members to global markets.

Other Firms on the top ten best corporate governance practices include DTB Bank at fourth place, Standard Chartered Bank at fifth place, NIC Bank, Kenya Power, BAT Kenya, East African Breweries, Liberty and Jubilee Holdings.

The most improved firm in the ranking was Limuru Tea, with a comprehensive score of 41.7 percent, ranking them at Position 46, from a score of 16.7 percent and Position 49 in the 2017 Report due to increase of board members to an odd number, introduction of a female board member, and better disclosure on board member details, work experience, and remuneration.

The biggest decliner was ARM Cement, which recorded a decline to a comprehensive score of 58.3 percent, ranking them at Position 42, due to lack correlation between remuneration and earnings, a high shareholding level at the board, and evenness of the board.

“The top 24 companies in the Cytonn Corporate Governance Report (CGR) have delivered an absolute return of approximately 2.1 percent over the last 5-years compared to the bottom 23 companies, which have delivered an absolute return of (13 percent) over the last 5-years, meaning that the advantage to better governance delivered 15.1 percent better returns to shareholders,” the report notes.

Compared to last year’s ranking, there was an overall improvement in the comprehensive score, board attendance, proportion of non-executive directors as well as ethnic diversity in the 47 listed companies in the report

“Corporate governance reporting standards continue to improve in the country. Earlier in the year, the Capital Markets Authority’s Code of Corporate Governance practices came into full effect and we have witnessed compliance as companies adopted the provisions of the code in their annual reports for the financial year 2017,” the report indicates.

The survey was conducted on 47 companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange with a market capitalization in excess of Sh1. billion.

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Kenyan financials are your best bet at the moment. Look at the Q3 numbers coming up shortly

Those who get angry enough are getting listened to. The maize farmers, SME's, sijui who is next.The two believe in kutendea wanaosema shida zao.

Kenya made the biggest mistake electing those 2 fellows.....

I could use your kind of optimism. But a good number of respected economists are pointing to doom and gloom. Or do listen to David Ndii and the likes too much

At times like this the best you can do is buy more to lower ABP. But pesa imekosekana pia. 20% DOWN. Tuko Pamoja

How has all this been financed?

Ndii is a big joker and a puppet of his masters in Kaburuland. I knew he was not a serious fellow when he started prating about SGR not making a "profit" yet it is a public good. Since when did Uhuru highway make a profit? But he knows the average Kenyan does not read..he points this out over and over in his tweets, so they will believe anything he says as gospel. By the way why does he keep those "red kambas" on his glasses? I cannot remember ever seeing any other person with those things since the 1980s jameni.

I think we have done reasonably well on our borrowing prudence. But I am not a fan of the crazy KRA revenue target projections that keep increasing by funny numbers each year yet are never met. It doesn't make sense. Why increase revenue targets by 30% yet the previous 5 years not more than 15% was ever met? This is why I preferred Kibaki's way of handling such matters. Kenyans should seriously think of bringing stylo hiyo hiyo hapaaaana out of retirement to be honorary finance minister (supervising treasury). The guy ran a tight ship and laid the foundation for everything we are currently enjoying in our lovely country.