Archives for November 2019

Big gains for JSE main market

November 4, 2019 by

Proven Investments closed at a record high on the JSE main market.

Stocks continue to rebound on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday with a four-digit rise in the market index as trading volume rose 77 percent, with 39 securities traded with 15 advancing, 12 declining and 12 trading firm in the US dollar and main markets.
After falling moderately on Friday the market made strong gains on Monday as the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index climbed 2,578.73 points to close at 545,658.25, the JSE Index advanced 2,362.71 points to 496,939.21 and the JSE Financial Index gained 0.50 points to close at 134.91.
Main market activity, closed with 38 securities trading, leading to 19,703,423 units valued at $146,119,200 crossing the exchange, in contrast to 11,107,535 units valued at $113,371,137 on Friday also with 38 securities trading.
Sagicor Select Funds dominated trading with 12.7 million shares for 64 percent of total volume, followed by Wisynco Group with 2.5 million units accounting for 13 percent of the day’s trade following the release of a 53 percent rise in September quarter profit and Wigton Windfarm with 2.24 million shares for 11 percent of the market’s trade. Also trading more than 1 million shares was QWI Investments with 1.1 million units. Proven Investments closed at a 52 weeks’ high while MPC Clean Energy hit a record high of $275 but close back at Fridays’ close of $260.
The market closed with an average of 518,511 units valued at an average of $3,845,242 for each security traded, in contrast to 292,304 units valued at an average of $2,983,451 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 405,407 units valued at $3,414,347 for each security changing hands. The market closed out October with an average of 957,488 units valued at $13,947,047 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 10 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers. The PE ratio of the market ended at 17.1 with the main market ending at 17.9 times 2019 current year’s earnings.
In main market activity, Barita Investments lost 30 cents to close at $70.20 trading 63,281 shares, Berger Paints ended at $17.11, after losing 46 cents in exchanging 4,690 shares, following a release from the company that they changed general manager at the end of October. Caribbean Cement gained 50 cents to settle at $77.50, with 548,786 shares changing hands, Carreras closed 70 cents higher to $8.60, trading 6,050 shares, Eppley Caribbean Property Fund settled at $35, after gaining $1 in swapping just 100 units. Eppley climbed $1.50 to close at $16, in trading 500 shares, Jamaica Producers slid $2, ending at $22 with an exchange of 15,100 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange gained 90 cents to close at $30, with 5,509 shares crossing the exchange. JMMB Group closed 70 cents lower at $42 after trading 16,521 shares, Kingston Wharves lost $1.40 to close at $60, with 1,400 shares changing hands, PanJam Investment closed at $97.50, after losing 50 cents with 140 shares traded, Portland JSX gained 50 cents, ending at $9 after swapping 200 units. Proven Investments jumped $2 in trading 621 shares to end at a 52 weeks’ high of $47, Pulse Investments lost 50 cents exchanging 52,397 shares and closed at $3.90, Seprod climbed $2.10 to $54.60 with 5,558 units traded and Wisynco Group added 50 cents, in swapping 2,511,617 shares to close at $24 following release of very positive quarterly results last week.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with 751,000 units valued US$196,441 with the market index losing 8.72 points to close at 194.07 as Proven Investments, the sole trade, lost 1 US cent to close at 26.01 US cents after slipping 1 cent.

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Junior Market trading drops over 80%

November 4, 2019 by

Caribbean Cream closed at 52 weeks’ low of. $3.80

Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Market fell over 80 percent from Friday’s levels on Monday with 965,495 units valued at $4,089,873 changing hands, compared to 5,230,729 units valued at $27,124,560 on Friday.
The Market Index rose 1.09 points to end at 3,414.19 as 26 securities changed hands compared to 26 on Friday. Market activities resulted in the price of 4 securities rising, 10 declining and 12 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of just 37,134 units for an average of $157,303 in contrast to 201,182 units for an average of $1,043,252 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 119,158 units valued at $600,278 for each security traded. In contrast, October closed with an average of 186,927 units valued at $788,734 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Blue Power traded 2,026 shares, after rising 10 cents to end at $6.90, Caribbean Cream declined 45 cents in trading of 11,676 units to end at 52 weeks’ low of $3.80, Express Catering dipped 19 cents in trading of 5,481 units at $6.01, Everything Fresh climbed 2 cents and exchanged 18,879 shares at $1.20. Elite Diagnostic closed 30 cents higher at $5.80, with 18,830 stock units trading, General Accident closed with a loss of 9 cents at $8.15, in swapping 12,293 shares, GWest Corporation ended with a loss of 1 cent at 1.11 with 3,590 stock units changing hands. Honey Bun lost 10 cents in trading 4,030 units at $6.50, Jamaican Teas slipped 5 cents in trading 10,030 units at $6, Knutsford Express dipped 45 cents in trading of 3,468 units at $10.40. Lasco Financial declined by 10 cents trading 151,300 shares to settle at $5.10, Lasco Manufacturing closed 25 cents higher at $5.50, with 74,346 stock units trading, Limners and Bards shed 28 cents in trading of 116,064 units at $2.72 and SSL Venture ended with a loss of 1 cent at 1.59 with 66,344 stock units changing hands.

Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

 

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Mild pull back for TTSE – Monday

November 4, 2019 by

Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange market closed mixed on Monday with 13 securities being active against 16 on Friday as the market ended with 3 stocks rising, 6 declining and 4 remaining unchanged.
At the close of the market, the Composite Index inched 0.13 points to 1,399.55. The All T&T Index added 0.34 points to 1,754.48, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.01 point to close at 141.55.
Trading ended with 290,349 shares valued $7,081,786, compared to 68,899 shares valued $1,404,017 shares on Friday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 10 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 1 with a lower offer.
Gains| NCB Financial rose 5 cents and closed at $10.71, with investors exchanging 1,000 shares, One Caribbean Media gained 1 cent and ended at $10, with 10,000 units crossing the exchange and Trinidad & Tobago NGL rose 9 cents in exchanging 2,763 shares to close at $25.75.
Losses| Clico Investments Fund shed 7 cents and settled at $24.03, with 131,840 stock units trading, First Citizens Bank dropped 16 cents and completed trading at $40.83, with 5,273 stock units trading, JMMB Group declined 5 cents to end at $1.95, after swapping 20,000 shares. Republic Financial fell 32 cents and settled at $122.93, trading 18,858 shares, Sagicor Financial closed with a loss of 7 cents and ended at $10.61, with investors exchanging 528 shares and Scotiabank shed 1 cent and completed trading of 12,450 units at $59.46.
Firm Trades| Grace Kennedy settled at $3.36, swapping of 80,000 shares, Guardian Holdings ended at $18.35, after exchanging 6,605 shares, National Enterprises concluded trading at $5.70, with 82 stock units changing hands and Unilever Caribbean completed trading at $23.50, after exchanging 950 shares.

Prices of securities trading are those at which the last trade took place.

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Main Event leaps into IC TOP 10

November 4, 2019 by
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Main Event revenues growing nicely profit stalls.

Overall price movement on the Jamaica Stock Exchange was steadier ahead of the month-end but some stocks recorded notable price movements as the JMMB Group APO remained opened.
Main Event shot into the Junior Market TOP 10 list this week in the number 3 position with a switch to earnings for 2020 fiscal year. The company came under selling pressure recently with profit declining in the July quarter although revenues climbed a strong 29 percent over the outturn for the similar quarter in 2018. The company managed to record a modest increase in its nine months profit with earnings per share of 36 cents. If the growth in revenues maintains the trend for 2019 in 2020 and management controls cost that was out of line in 2019, then the company should go on to record a strong increase in profit in the 2020 fiscal year that starts this month.
Honey Bun returns to the Junior Market TOP 10 stocks while Caribbean Flavours and Access Financial with an earnings downgrade, following release of the six months results, are out of the IC TOP 10. Over in the main market, Eppley moved in at the expense of Scotia Group with the price climbing to $58.99 on Friday.
The top three Junior Market stocks, continue to be led by Caribbean Producers with projected gains of 237 percent, followed by Iron Rock Insurance with potential gains of 233 percent followed by Main Event with 226 percent.
Radio Jamaica remains the lead stock with projected gains of 176 percent, followed by Carreras in the number two spot with likely gains of 128 percent and Jamaica Broilers with projected growth of 107 percent is next.
The main market, closed the week with the overall PE of 17.8, up from 17.2 and the Junior Market at 12.1 from 11.8, based on current year’s earnings. The PE ratio for Junior Market Top 10 stocks averages 7.8 with the main market PE at 10.7 from 10.8 for the previous week.
The TOP 10 stocks now trade at a discount of 37 percent to the average for Junior Market stocks and main market stocks trade at a discount of 38 percent to the overall market.
IC TOP 10 stocks are likely to deliver the best returns to March next year. Projected earnings, along with the PE ratio for each company’s current fiscal year are used in determining potential gains with the likely gains ranked in descending order with highest-ranked being the most attractive. Potential values will change as stock prices fluctuate and will result in movements of the selection in and out of the lists for most weeks. Earnings per share are revised on an ongoing basis as new information is received that can result in changes in and out of the list.

This report is compiled by persons who may have an interest in the securities commented on.

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Terminator blazes to 13 shows daily

November 4, 2019 by

The legendary, Terminator in which Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future came to Palace Amusements’ four cinema houses on Friday with guns blazing.
Opening on Friday in all the four cinemas with two showings per day for a total of eight, the popular movie has since jumped to thirteen per day on Saturday with the recently opened Sunshine Palace having four per day. Schedules for Wednesday were not available but the odds favour the popular actioned packed movie continuing to dominate the screens well beyond this week. Based on recent popular movies, the hike in showings suggest that Terminator will last for about 6 weeks, taking it well into December when the popular Star Wars series come to town, with The Rise of Skywalker in mid-December.
This is only the second time since the Will Smith starring Gemini Man debuted on October 9 that a movie opened with 8 shows daily. Only Fast and Furious that started showing in July had more than 13 showings per day with opening with 15 and then moving to 17 in August. Gemini Man now in its fourth week is down to five shows per day and is one of the movies that have made space for this week’s leading movie. Also making way is Maleficent Mistress of Evil with Angelina Jolie that is now down to just three regular showings from six on Wednesday and the long-running Jokers that is down from two per day to just one starting Friday. Maleficent Mistress of Evil also has two early shows in the 2-2:30 pm time slot.

Gemini Man still holding the audience for 4 weeks

New at the movies last week were Black and Blue starring Naomie Harris and Tyrese Gibson, opening with seven daily shows in all cinemas and continues with 6 on Wednesday but fell to five showings from Friday to Tuesday this week.
Continuing with four daily shows in all cinemas are Downton Abbey the continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early 20th century, on Saturday the movie is now down to three showings in regular slot but on Sunday there was a special early show at Cineplex.  Mary, the tale of a family looking to start a charter-boat business, buying a ship that holds terrifying secrets once out on isolated waters opened on Wednesday with four shows but that gave way to the increased demand for Terminator on Saturday.
On Wednesday Harriet enters the Jamaican cinemas as the sole newcomer. Based on the story of iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman, ‘Harriet’ follows Tubman (Cynthia Erivo) on her escape from slavery and subsequent missions to free dozens of slaves through the Underground Railroad in the face of growing pre-Civil War adversity.

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Guyana to grow 86% in 2020

November 4, 2019 by

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is projecting a stunning 85.6 percent growth in Gross Domestic Product for Guyana in 2020 with oil production scheduled to begin in early 2020.
The huge increase in economic growth projected for 2020, will be up from a projected 4.4 percent increase in 2019 and 4.1 percent actual growth in 2018.
According to the IMF, economic growth for the current year continues as the domestic economy extends the broad-based expansion across all major sectors. Growth is driven by continued strength in the construction and services sector ahead of oil production in 2020 and strong recovery in mining. The oil sector is projected to grow rapidly, accounting for around 40 percent of GDP by 2024 and supporting additional fiscal spending annually of 6.5 percent of non-oil GDP on average. This would boost non-oil GDP growth by 3.5 percentage points on average.

Oil drilling offshore Guyana


The external outlook is expected to gradually improve after the start of oil production in 2020, the IMF stated. “The current account deficit is projected to narrow from negative 22.7 in 2019 to negative 18.4 percent of GDP in 2020, with the commencement of oil exports. The deficit will be financed largely by FDI inflows and donor-supported investment. In the medium term, the current account balance will improve further as oil-related imports subside with the completion of oil fields and as oil exports from Liza II commence in 2022.”
“Public debt is projected to peak at 56.6 percent of GDP in 2019 before declining sharply from 2020, reaching 15.8 percent of GDP by 2024, as the incoming oil revenue significantly reduces borrowing needs and increases GDP”, the IMF reported.

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Soft November start for JSE main market

November 1, 2019 by

The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange opened November with the major indices falling marginally as declining stocks beat out rising ones.
At the close, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index declined 674.79 points to close at 543,079.52; the JSE Index lost 611.43 points to 494,576.50 and the JSE Financial Index was down 0.15 points to close at 134.41.
Trading closed with 40 securities changing hands in the main and US dollar markets with 12 advancing, 18 declining and 10 traded firm. Main market activity ended with 38 securities trading 11,107,535 units valued at $113,371,137, in contrast to 38,125,741 units valued at $101,388,568 on Thursday with 40 securities trading.
Sagicor Select Funds dominated trading with 3.8 million shares for 34 percent of total volume, followed by Wigton Windfarm with 3.1 million units accounting for 28 percent of the day’s trade and Wisynco with 816,449 shares for 7 percent of the market’s trade.
The market closed with an average of 292,304 units valued at $2,983,451 for each security traded, in contrast to 953,144 units valued at an average of $2,534,714 on Thursday. The market closed out October with an average of 957,488 units valued at $13,947,047 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 9 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 with lower offers. The PE ratio of the market ended at 17 with the main market ending at 17.8 times 2019 current year’s earnings.
In main market activity, Barita Investments gained 50 cents to close at $70.50 after trading 55,812 shares, Caribbean Cement lost 50 cents to end at $77, after exchanging 52,135 units, Carreras dropped 90 cents trading 612,631 stock units to settle at $7.90, Eppley dropped $1.50 to close at $14.50, after swapping 680 shares. Grace Kennedy closed $1.49 lower to $66, with 77,510 stock units changing hands, Jamaica Producers gained $1.10, ending at $24 with 3,651 units traded, Jamaica Stock Exchange lost 40 cents to close at $29.10, with 43,202 shares crossing the exchange. JMMB Group closed 30 cents lower at $42.70 in trading 19,543 stock units, Mayberry Investments lost 35 cents, to settle at $7.15 with 215,225 shares changing hands, NCB Financial gained $2 to close at $205, after swapping 43,196 stock units. PanJam Investment closed at $98, after losing $2 with 19,021 units traded, Pulse Investments lost 30 cents exchanging 17,920 shares to end at $4.40, Sagicor Group declined $2 to $64, with 53,384 shares traded. Sagicor Real Estate Fund closed 39 cents lower at $11.50, in swapping 44,315 stock units, Salada Foods advanced $2.70 to $32, in exchanging 26,000 units, Scotia Group climbed $3.99 and ended at $58.99, trading 603,998 shares, Seprod closed $1.50 lower to $52.50 with 2,003 units traded. Stanley Motta lost 54 cents to end at $5.20, with 19,600 shares changing hands, Supreme Ventures gained 83 cents to close at $25.98, with an exchange of 472,471 shares and Wisynco Group surged $1.50 in swapping 816,449 shares to close at $23.50 as investors responded positively to the Group’s strong September quarterly results with profit jumping 53 percent.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with 42,285 units traded at US$1,396 with the market index gaining 0.23 points to close at 202.79. Sterling Investments gained 0.2 US cents trading 39,000 units to close at 2.4 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments exchanged 3,285 shares at 14 US cents.

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Steady Junior Market price movements

November 1, 2019 by

Price movements were almost evenly spread on the Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Market at the close on Friday as trading ended with 5,230,729 units valued at $27,124,560 changing hands.
Trading on Thursday saw trading of 31,699,661 units valued at $87,399,668.
The Market Index added 2.59 points to end at 3,413.10 as 26 securities changed hands compared to 24 on Thursday. Market activities resulted in the price of 10 securities rising, 9 declining and 7 remaining unchanged.
Trading ended with an average of 201,182 units for an average of $1,043,252 in contrast to 1,320,819 units for an average of $3,641,653 on Thursday. In contrast, October closed with an average of 186,927 units valued at $788,734 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial lost $5.40 in trading of 10,655 units to close at $34.50, Blue Power exchanged 4,912 shares, after rising 20 cents to end at $6.80, Caribbean Producers declined by 4 cents to settle at $4.75 after 20,280 shares were swapped. Derrimon Trading lost 5 cents in swapping 109,000 units at $2.45, Dolphin Cove traded 58,972 and dropped $1.98 to settle at $9. Elite Diagnostic lost 25 cents trading 9,770 shares to close at $5.50, Express Catering ended market activity exchanging 25,065 shares to close at $6.20 after falling 10 cents. Everything Fresh shed 2 cents in trading of 17,615 units at $1.18, Fontana swapped 372,646 shares and rose 30 cents to end at $8, Fosrich exchanged 14,201 shares, after rising 7 cents to end at $4.78, General Accident dipped 6 cents in trading of 46,404 units at $8.24. GWest Corporation ended trading with 21,082 shares and gained 7 cents to end at $1.12, iCreate closed 3 cents higher at 71 cents, with 4,306 stock units trading, Lasco Distributors closed with 111,180 units changing hands and gained 5 cents to end at $3.30, Lasco Financial climbed 25 cents and exchanged 51,666 shares at $5.20. Lasco Manufacturing closed trading of 3,500,905 units and gained 22 cents to end at $5.25, Limners and Bards climbed 14 cents in exchanging 665,000 shares to close at $3, Main Event climbed 2 cents after exchanging 700 shares at $5.22 and Stationery and Office Supplies declined 28 cents trading 5,800 units at $12.17.

Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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Pull back for TTSE – Friday

November 1, 2019 by

Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange market indices dropped at the close of trading on Friday with 16 securities being active against 13 on Thursday. The market ended with 5 stocks rising, 6 declining and 5 remaining unchanged.
At the close of the market, the Composite Index dipped 3.45 points to 1,399.42. The All T&T Index fell 6.51 points to 1,754.14, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.04 points to close at 141.56.
Trading ended with 68,899 shares valued $1,404,017, compared to 452,601 shares valued $19,844,573 shares on Thursday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended at 7 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 1 with a lower offer.
Gains| Clico Investments Fund gained 4 cents and ended at $24.10, with 8,118 units crossing the exchange, First Citizens Bank added 19 cents and settled at a 52 weeks’ high of $40.99 as 765 stock units changed hands, NCB Financial gained 1 cent to end at $10.66, after exchanging 60 shares. Scotiabank rose 7 cents to $59.47, with 675 units changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL inched 1 cent higher in exchanging 4,110 shares to close at $25.66.
Losses| Grace Kennedy fell 4 cents and ended at $3.36, with 774 units crossing the exchange, Guardian Media shed 25 cents and settled at $8.25, with 2,000 stock units changing hands, One Caribbean Media slipped 1 cent and ended at $9.99, with 2,000 units crossing the exchange. Republic Financial declined by 25 cents and closed at $123.25, with 1,970 units trading, Unilever Caribbean fell 50 cents and settled at $23.50, with 11,888 stock units changing hands and West Indian Tobacco ended trading 49 cents lower at $104.50, with 2,227 units crossing the exchange.
Firm Trades | Calypso Micro Index Fund traded 200 shares and closed at $15.75, Guardian Holdings ended at $18.35, with investors exchanging 500 shares, National Flour completed trading  of 13,425 units at $1.49, Sagicor Financial closed at $10.68, with 19,042 units crossing the exchange and Trinidad Cement ended at $2, after exchanging 1,145 shares.

Prices of securities trading are those at which the last trade took place.

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