Two Executives of Sagicor Group purchased a total of 4,979,956 shares, under the company’s Executive Long Term Incentive Scheme, on September 29, 2014, the company advised the Jamaica Stock Exchange. The purchase brings to 8,414,404 units acquired mostly by executives since June. Executives sold a total of 3,075,556 units during the same period.
The Group offers stock grants and stock options to senior executives as part of its long-term incentive plan. The Group has set aside 150,000,000 of its authorised but un-issued shares of $0.10 each for the stock grants and stock options. The lowest price option is dated March 2009 and would expire in March 2016 with an exercise price of $7.66 for 5,069,770 shares. All the rest that are vested, have an exercise price that are above the current stock price of $9.65. The exercise prices for the rest range between $10.45 for the 2010 vested amount of 4,039,454 with an expiry date of March 2017 and $14.10 for the 2012 vested amount of 1,813,036 shares, with an expiry date of 2019.
The Group also has in place a share purchase plan which enables its administrative and sales staff to purchase a pool of Sagicor Group shares at a predetermined discount rate of the closing bid price on December 31 each year. During 2013, the Staff Share Purchase Plan Trust purchased 3,417,136 shares over the Stock Exchange for a total value of $28,380,000.
Archives for October 2014
Jamaica’s Economy grows 1.8% in Q2
October 1, 2014 by
Agriculture was the star performer in Jamaica’s growth in the second quarter
The Statin report goes on to state, this performance reflects an improvement of 6.3 percent in the Goods Producing industries and a 0.5 percent increase in the Services industries.In the June quarter, Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing grew 16.6 percent, Manufacture 4.1 percent and Construction 1.2 percent. Mining & Quarrying industry declined by 0.4 percent.
Manufacture benefited from a 111.9 percent increase in the production of sugar and a 26.1 percent growth in petroleum refining. Higher output levels in Construction resulted mainly from an increase in expenditure on road work activities, including the continued work on the North-South leg of Highway 2000. Lower production levels in the Mining &Quarrying industry was due to a fall in alumina production, resulting from the stoppage of activities at one of the alumina refining plant. However, crude bauxite production increased by 13.3 percent.
Increased output was recorded for all industries within the Services industries with the exception of the Producers of Government Services, down 0.2 percent and Electricity & Water Supply, down 1.6 percent. Higher output levels were recorded for; Hotels & Restaurants 2.3 percent, Other Services 1.1 percent, Transport, Storage & Communication 1 percent, Real Estate, Renting & Business Activities 0.6 percent. The sharp jump in sugar production in the second which is not in line with increased production with the overall 2014 sugar crop, meant that growth in the first quarter would have been negatively affected by a late take off of the cane crop in 2014 which benefited the second quarter.
