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Kenya Power: A Dip in the current
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After a record-breaking year powered by currency gains and tariff adjustments, Kenya Power’s lights dimmed in 2025 — as profit slipped nearly a fifth and revenue fell for the first time in over a decade.
Harry Njuguna analyzes…
Financial Snapshot:
🟢 Net profit dropped 18.7% to KSh 24.47 billion.
🔴 Revenue fell 5.1% to KSh 219.29 billion, the first annual decline since 2013.
🟢 Total assets rose 8.6% to KSh 389 billion.
🟢 Shareholder equity jumped 25% to KSh 109.3 billion.
🟢 Operating expenses fell KSh 3.9 billion through tighter cost controls.
🟢 A total dividend of KSh 1.00 per share will be paid in January 2026.
Read the full financial analysis here >>>>>
Kenyan Tea Losing Steam
By Harry Njuguna
The country's most reliable export is losing its rhythm. After a decade of steady growth, tea production has wilted; down 11% this year, as dry weather parched the highlands and global buyers trimmed orders.
The once-lucrative Mombasa auction has cooled, prices slipping to just over US$2 a kilo even as local sales rise on new tax breaks. Pakistan remains Kenya’s biggest buyer, but shipments to Britain and the Gulf are quietly fading, replaced by emerging demand from Oman and Kazakhstan.
The Tea Board now expects the country’s total output to fall to a five-year low, leaving farmers and factories alike waiting for the rains, and a price rebound, to return.
Read more details here >>>>>
When Financial Inclusion isn't enough…
By Chelsy Maina
Kenya has a new plan to fix a familiar problem: too many people with bank accounts and too little money that lasts.
The country’s first National Financial Inclusion Strategy promises to turn “access” into actual financial health; a shift from counting users to counting stability. It reads like a reckoning with the limits of mobile money, where millions can send cash but few can save it.
The goals are ambitious. From doubling the share of financially healthy adults, expanding insurance, and cutting household debt. But the real challenge may be cultural: teaching a nation that inclusion is not the same as financial security.
Read more here »»»»»
Opinion
Disorganised Data Is the Silent Revenue Killer for Many Kenyan Companies
By Veerakumar Natarajan
In Kenya’s rush toward digital transformation, data has become both the fuel and the fire. Boardrooms buzz about AI and cloud tools, yet beneath the surface, most companies are drowning in the chaos of their own fragmented systems.
Every spreadsheet, silo, and disconnected app chips away at efficiency, bleeding revenue in ways that never make the quarterly report. The irony is sharp: the more advanced the tools, the more fragile the foundation becomes. True innovation, it seems, will come not from the next technology upgrade; but from the quiet, unglamorous act of getting the data right.
Read this article here »»»»»
Happening This Week
The Kenyan Wall Street and Schneider Electric are hosting a c-suite roundtable on Thursday, October 9th from 7:30-11:00am at the Capital Club of East Africa.
This roundtable focuses on bringing through leaders and industry experts together at the Capital Club of East Africa to discuss how industries such as ICT, manufacturing, mining, and others are leveraging technology and how that transition is paying dividends for Kenyan companies.
Featuring industry leaders : Senior leadership from Schneider Electric East Africa, Raymond Kitunga, the Deputy MD of SPIRO, and Snehar Shah, CEO of IX Africa Data Centres. .
Since this event is invite-only and exclusive to a limited number of people, please be sure to RSVP in the link here »»»»»
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Yesterday's Poll Results
The CBK Monetary Policy Committee meets tomorrow. What’s your call for tomorrow’s MPC decision?
A majority polled ‘Cut for the 8th time’
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