Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange resulted in more stocks rising than falling leading to a moderate pick up in the market indices as trading levels declined sharply.
At the close of market activity, the prices of 11 securities rose, 9 declined, while 10 remained unchanged, leading the All Jamaica Composite Index to rise 832.12 points to close at 397,739.58 and the JSE Index gained 758.16 points to end at 362,385.78. The closing indices are different than the ones released by the stock exchange that is much lower than the close on Thursday.
Trading closed with 30 active securities in the main and US dollar markets, on Friday compared to 29 on Thursday. Trading closed with 2,082,014 units valued at $42,778,375 compared with 53,515,060 units valued $119,025,805 changing hands, on Thursday.
Main market trading closed with Carreras leading with 440,416 units trading, or 21 percent of the day’s volume, Scotia Group with 392,361 units and 19 percent of volume traded and Radio Jamaica with 259,000 units with 
12.4 percent of the day’s volume.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
Trading resulted in an average of 77,112 units valued at over $1,584,384, in contrast to 1,911,252 shares valued at $4,250,922 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 1,010,856 shares, valued $2,941,894. October closed, with an average of 290,851 shares, valued $5,213,901, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Caribbean Cement gained up $1.79 trading 1,055 shares to close at $43, Grace Kennedy rose $2 and ended trading with 27,576 shares at $57, Jamaica Broilers traded 19,491 stock units, at $29.71, after 
falling 29 cents, Jamaica Producers jumped $3.49 and finished trading 7,040 units at $28, Jamaica Stock Exchange dropped $1.50 to close at $10, in exchanging 207,374 shares, JMMB Group gained 48 cents to $32.50, trading 17,573 shares, Kingston Wharves lost 95 cents to close at $75 with 2,792 stock units trading, Mayberry Jamaica Equities traded 25,925 units but lost $1 to close at $10.50, Scotia Group gained $1.46 to $52.49, trading 392,361 units.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with, JMMB Group 5.75 percent preference share rising 3 cents exchanging 1,700 shares at $2.06, Proven Investments traded 4,360 units changing hands at 20 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments US dollar based ordinary share traded 11,820 units at 11 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index rose 0.09 points at 163.39.
Archives for November 2018
Junior Market slips again on Friday
Lasco Financial profit dropped 39% in 2018 Q2.
Lasco Financial posted 39 percent lower profit for the September quarter than in 2017 after the market closed on Thursday, the stock traded up to $5.95, shortly after the market opened but shortly before the close 10 million units were pushed through with the stock ending at $5.
Trading ended with 20 securities changing hands, versus 23 on Thursday, with 8 stocks rising, while 10 declining and 2 remained unchanged. At the end of trading the Junior Market Index declined 4.80 points to close at 3,268.71, with 10,752,516 units valued at $53,885,826 changing hands, compared to 1,326,877 units valued at $5,969,489 on Thursday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 6 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, while 2 closed with lower offers.
Trading ended with an average of a mere 537,626 units for an average of $2,694,291 in contrast to 57,690 units for an average of $259,543 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 280,916 units valued at $1,391,984. October, ended with an average of 69,421 units valued at $347,455 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, Access Financial closed with a loss of $2.73 at $49.27, with 750 shares trading, AMG Packaging ended with a loss of 10 cents at $1.85, with 318,796 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading of 4,940 
units at $6, Caribbean Cream ended trading 36,886 shares, 35 cents higher at $6, Consolidated Bakeries closed with a loss of 30 cents at $2, with 15,000 shares changing hands. Elite Diagnostic finished trading 25,351 stock units, with a loss of 16 cents to end at $3.02, Eppley settled with a loss of 10 cents at $8, with 3,000 units changing hands, Everything Fresh fell 5 cents in trading 53,824 shares, to close at $1.95, Express Catering ended trading of 400 shares and climbed 17 cents higher to $8, FosRich Group traded 13,152 shares and rose 1 cent higher to $3.20. GWest Corporation closed 10 cents higher at $1.80, with 84,012 stock units trading, Honey Bun ended 33 cents higher at $4.14, with 4,100 units changing hands, Indies Pharma closed with a loss of 30 cents at $3 exchanging 74,333 share, Jamaican Teas settled with a loss of 1 cent at 
$4.09, with 3,000 shares changing hands, KLE Group finished trading 3,321 shares at $3.90. Lasco Distributors ended at $4, with the trading of 53,571 shares, Lasco Financial concluded trading of 10,004,955 stock units with a loss of 40 cents at $5, Lasco Manufacturing finished 10 cents higher at $3.40, with 38,650 units, Main Event gained 35 cents to end at $6.45, with 14,211 shares changing hands and Stationery and Office finished trading 264 stock units and climbed 20 cents to $9.20.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Trading picks up modestly on TTSE
Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Friday remains low but picked up to 111,962 units valued at $1,415,895 compared to 16,715 shares with a value of $445,427, changing hands on Thursday.
Market activities ended with 11 securities trading against 15 on Thursday, 4 advanced, 3 declined and 4 remained unchanged with the Composite Index declined 1.40 points to 1,226.21. The All T&T Index lost 0.77 points to 1,692.28, while the Cross Listed Index fell 0.28 points to close at 102.24.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 4 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Stocks to Watch include, a number of companies that are exhibiting bullish tendencies and may be moving higher in the days ahead, the group includes, Ansa McAl, Grace Kennedy, Republic Holdings, Point Lisas and West Indian Tobacco.
Stocks closing with gains| Clico Investments rose 1 cent to close at $20.01, with 3,423 stock units changing hands, Republic Financial Holdings concluded trading and rose 1 cent to $106.61, after exchanging 5,986 shares, 
Sagicor Financial added 5.00 cents and ended at $7.50, with 5,313 stock units changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL gained 8.00 cents, settling at $29.49, after exchanging 17 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| First Citizens concluded trading with a loss of 4 cents and settled at $32.65, after exchanging 9,105 shares, JMMB Group fell 6 cents and ended at $1.64, after exchanging 79,682 shares and National Enterprises lost 1 cent to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $8.49, with 500 stock units changing hands.
Stocks trading with no price change| Guardian Holdings completed trading at $16.75, with 4,165 units, Massy Holdings ended at $46.75, after exchanging 3,403 shares, Prestige Holdings completed trading of 100 units at $7.50 and Unilever Caribbean ended trading at $25.00, with 268 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE starts November with a big fall
Having risen strongly on the last trading day for October, the Jamaica Stock Exchange slipped back to normal on Thursday with stocks giving back most of the gains of the previous day, in keeping with patterns seen at month ends and openings, going back several years.
Trading closed with 29 active securities in the main and US dollar markets, on Thursday compared to 33 on Wednesday. Prices of 8 securities rose, 16 declined, while 5 remained unchanged. At the end of market activity, the All Jamaica Composite Index dropped 3,848.34 points to close at 396,907.46 and the JSE Index dived 3,506.27 points to end at 361,627.62.
Trading closed with 53,515,060 units valued $119,025,805 compared with 36 6,766,220 units valued at $113,213,380 changing hands, on Wednesday.
Main market trading closed with 1834 Investments leading with 50,001,500 units trading, or 93.4 percent of the day’s volume, Mayberry Jamaican Equities with 1,029,435 units and 1.9 percent of volume traded and Ciboney with 764,000 units with 1.4 percent of the day’s volume.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
Trading resulted in an average of 1,911,252 units valued at over $4,250,922, in contrast to 225,541 shares valued at $3,773,779 on Wednesday. October closed, with an average of 290,851 shares, valued $5,213,901, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments gained $1 to close at $20, with 6,375 shares changing hands, Caribbean Cement gave up $2.79 trading 7,157 shares to close at $41.21, Grace Kennedy lost $1 and ended trading with 45,770 shares at $55, Jamaica Broilers traded 28,064 stock units, at $30 after falling $1, Jamaica Producers dropped $2.99 and finished trading 26,432 units, at $24.51, Jamaica Stock Exchange jumped $1.50 to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $11.50, exchanging 73,099 shares, JMMB Group fell $1.78 and ended at $32.02, trading 127,582 shares,
Kingston Wharves gained 95 cents and finished at $75.95 with 24,474 stock units trading, NCB Financial Group added 80 cents and ended trading 160,771 shares to close at $126.80, PanJam Investment closed with a loss of $2.01 to end at $61.99, trading 14,135 stock units, Sagicor Group settled at $45 after falling $1.85, with 7,156 shares traded, Sagicor Real Estate Fund lost 57 cents to settle at $11.43, exchanging 239,704 shares, Salada Foods ended trading just 258 stock units and dropped $3.70 to end at $21.10, Scotia Group fell $1.97 to $51.03, trading 122,623 units and Supreme Ventures dropped $2.26 to close at $17.54 with 197,166 shares changing hands.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with Margaritaville being the only stock trading to end with a mere 100 units changing hands at 24 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index remained unchanged at 163.30.
Junior Market opens November down
The pattern of mostly rising month end prices followed by mostly falling prices to start the new month was on show again, with the Junior Market recording just 4 stocks rising on first of November while 13 declined thus reversing the 11 to 5 advance decline ratio on the last day of October.
Trading ended with 23 securities changing hands, versus 25 on Wednesday, with 1,326,877 units valued at $5,969,489 changing hands, compared to 7,039,541 units valued at $46,203,913 on Wednesday. At the end of trading the Junior Market Index declined 33.05 points to close at 3,273.51.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 9 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, while 3 closed with lower offers.
Trading ended with an average of a mere 57,690 units for an average of $259,543 in contrast to 281,582 units for an average of $1,848,156 on Wednesday. October, ended with an average of 69,421 units valued at $347,455 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, AMG Packaging ended 15 cents higher at $1.95, in exchanging 3,230 stock units, before the company released full year results showing profit from continuing operations of $38 million versus $37 million in 2017 or 7 cents per share. The company incurred loss from discontinued operation of $68 million. CAC 2000 finished at $16, trading 30,520 shares, Caribbean Producers finished trading 53,086 units with a loss of 55 cents to close at $6, Derrimon Trading ended with a loss of 32 cents at $2.50, with 165,200 shares changing hands, Dolphin Cove concluded trading of 77,348 shares with a loss of 15 cents at $14.85. Elite Diagnostic closed 1 cent higher at $3.18, with an exchange of 19,090 stock units, Eppley settled with a loss of 5 cents at $8.10, trading 3,670 units, Everything Fresh fell 6 cents in trading 131,509 shares, to close at $2, Express Catering ended trading 3,500 shares with a loss of 2 cents at $7.83, FosRich Group traded 54,753 shares with the price rising 14 cents higher to $3.19. Honey Bun ended with a loss of 33 cents at $3.81, with an exchange of 82,875 units, Indies Pharma closed 
at $3.30 with 38,362 shares changing hands, Jamaican Teas settled 10 cents higher at $4.10, with 1,186 shares changing hands, Jetcon Corporation ended trading with of 27,349 stock units with a loss of 14 cents at $3.71, Knutsford Express closed with a loss of 20 cents at $11.80, trading 400 shares. Lasco Distributors ended at $4, while exchanging 258,017 shares, Lasco Financial concluded trading of 96,042 stock units, with a loss of 5 cents at $5.40. Subsequent to the close of trading the company reported net profit after tax falling 39 percent for the second quarter to September to $61 million. Lasco Manufacturing finished with a loss of 36 cents at $3.30, with 17,100 units changing hands, Main Event settled with a loss of 40 cents at $6.10, in swapping 12,504 shares. Medical Disposables ended trading 2,000 shares, with a loss of 1 cent to close at $9, Paramount Trading to close at $2.75, with 235,512 shares changing hands, SSL Venture Capital traded 1,827 shares at $2 and Stationery and Office finished trading 11,797 stock units with a loss of 50 cents to close at $9.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Mixed November start for TTSE stocks
Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange Head Quarters
Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange sank lower on Thursday to just 16,715 shares changing hands with a value of $445,427, compared to 69,698 shares traded with a value of $1,598,906, changing hands on Wednesday.
Market activities ended with 15 securities trading against 11 on Wednesday, 5 advanced, 5 declined and 5 remained unchanged, with 2 stocks closing at 52 weeks’ low. The Composite Index rose 0.70 points to 1,227.61. The All T&T Index declined 1.90 points to 1,693.05, while the Cross Listed Index rose 0.46 points to close at 102.52.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 5 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Stocks to Watch include, a number of companies that are exhibiting bullish tendencies and may be moving higher in the days ahead, the group includes, Ansa McAl, Grace Kennedy, Republic Holdings, Point Lisas and West Indian Tobacco.
Stocks closing with gains| First citizens ended trading with a rise of 4 cents and settled at $32.69, after exchanging 257 shares, JMMB Group finished trading 7 cents higher to $1.70, after exchanging 1,000 shares, National Flour rose 4 cents and completed trading of 1,000 units, at $1.69, Scotiabank added 1 cent to end at $64.75, with 1,000 units and West Indian Tobacco gained 7 cents and completed trading of 1,200 units at $90.10.
Stocks closing with losses| Clico Investments shares fell 15 cents and ended at $20, with 5,080 stock units changing hands, First Caribbean International Bank closed with a loss of 5 cents and completed trading at $8.45, 
with 1,163 units changing hands, Guardian Holdings shed 15 cents and completed trading at $16.75, after exchanging 40 units, National Enterprises lost 2 cents and ended at a 52 weeks’ low of $8.50, with 600 stock units changing hands and One Caribbean Media ended trading with a loss of $1.03 to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $11, after exchanging 900 shares.
Stocks trading with no price change| Agostini’s concluded at $23.40, after exchanging 575 shares, Angostura Holdings ended at $15.70, with 150 stock units changing hands, Ansa Mcal completed trading at $55.50, with 700 units, Calypso Macro Index Fund traded 800 shares to close at $15.81 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL settled at $29.41, after exchanging 2,250 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
