<![CDATA[This study assesses whether Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange PLC’s adoption and scaling of the Mobile Trading Platform (“Hisa Kiganjani”) coincided with changes in accounting-based financial performance and market valuation. Using a paired pre–post design, it compares 2017–2020 (pre) with 2022–2025 (post), excluding 2021 as a transition year. Five ratios (CR, ROA, DAR, DER, TATO) are combined into a standardized composite Financial Performance (FP) index, and year-end closing price is used as a proxy for market valuation. With four matched pairs, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests indicate no statistically significant shift in the FP index (W = 2.0, p = 0.375) and a directional but statistically non-significant increase in share price (W = 0.0, p = 0.125). Descriptively, 2025 shows increased mobile participation and turnover alongside trading-rule reforms. Overall results suggest an indicative pattern consistent with a gradual absorption interpretation, where valuation effects strengthen as adoption scales and market design improves, while accounting ratios show no discrete change.]]>
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