Safaricom
Telecommunications · Educational listing
Illustrative share price
KES 16.85
Illustrative demo quote · not live
Demo / Illustrative — not live trading. Not investment advice. Selecting this listing opens a demo security only.
Recognizable name for product demos — maps to an internal demo security only. Not live trading.
- Market
- 🇰🇪NSE· Telecommunications
- Framing
- Educational / illustrative
- Illustrative performance only — not live prices or returns.
- 3M+1.9%
- 6M−2.4%
- 12M+8.6%
- Life+34.2%
- Demo instrument
- Safaricom (Demo) · SAFDEMO · Demo security
Summary
Educational NSE telecoms reference — mobile, data, and fintech adjacency — showing how Investä presents a well-known East African listed name for demos.
History
Illustrative timeline: Safaricom is a widely recognised Kenyan telecom and mobile-money reference on the NSE. Used here to teach how data ARPU, M-Pesa adjacency, and regulation appear in an Investä share profile — never as a live trade or endorsement.
2000s
GSM scale-up & brand leadership
M-Pesa era
Mobile money as a platform narrative
2010s+
Data, enterprise & ecosystem services
Today
Used as educational NSE telecoms reference only
Founders
Vodafone / Telkom partnership roots
Founding shareholders (educational)
Safaricom executive leadership
Consumer, enterprise & fintech (illustrative)
Due Diligence Matrix
Illustrative RAG-style scores for demo walkthroughs — not audited research.
| Dimension | Rating | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Business model | Strong | Mobile + data + payments ecosystem (illustrative teaching frame). |
| Market | Moderate | Competition and price wars can pressure ARPU in short windows. |
| Financials | Moderate | Capex for network quality; demo scores are not audited figures. |
| Governance | Moderate | Listed disclosure with major-shareholder dynamics to review live. |
| Regulatory | Watch | Spectrum, interconnect, and payments oversight are first-order. |
| Liquidity risk | Strong | Often among more liquid NSE names — still demo context only. |
Target investment horizon
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