Honey Bun ended at a 52 week’s closing high, on Thursday.
Trading on the Junior Market ended on Thursday with prices of 15 securities advancing, 16 declining and two remaining unchanged. The market Index fell 24.57 points to close at 3,170.85, the lowest point since July 2019.
The market closed with 33 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 10,271,447 units valued at $27,200,810 compared to 2,385,114 units for $6,854,458 from 35 securities on Wednesday. The average PE Ratio of the market ended at 13.4 based on earnings for 2019.
Trading ended with an average of 311,256 units at $824,267 for each security, in contrast to 68,146 units for an average of $195,842 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 165,393 units amounting to $611,189 and previously 165,921 units valued $596,164. In contrast, December closed with an average of 521,319 shares at $1,344,719 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows four stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and two with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial gained $1.40 to end at $31.90, trading just 140 shares, AMG Packaging exchanged 42,587 shares, after rising 4 cents to end at $2.04, Blue Power closed 10 cents higher at $4.15, with 24,210 stock units changing hands. CAC 2000 dropped $1.50 in exchanging 3,500 shares to close at $13.50, Caribbean Cream ended trading with 1,300 shares, after rising 10 cents to $4.10, Caribbean Producers climbed 19 cents and exchanged 400 shares at $4.99, Derrimon Trading ended market activity with 40,356 shares crossing the exchange to close at $2.21 after falling 35 cents. Elite Diagnostic closed 12 cents higher at $4.50, trading 192,700 stock units, Everything Fresh traded at a record low of 97 cents but closed with a loss of 4 cents at $1.01, in swapping of 428,650 shares, Express Catering fell 7 cents in trading of 26,805 units at $6.11. Fontana closed with 397,098 units changing hands and gained 5 cents to end at $7.10, Fosrich closed 18 cents higher at $4.50, with 329,988 stock units trading, General Accident climbed 24 cents and exchanged 24,152 shares at $6.99, GWest Corporation rose 2 cents and traded 44,533 units at $1.03. Honey Bun traded at an intraday record high of $9.90 in exchanging 441,936 stock units to close at $8.50 after falling 20 cents, iCreate fell 15 cents in trading 585,387 units at 70 cents, Indies Pharma ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.92 with 89,010 stock units changing hands. 
Iron Rock Insurance declined 48 cents to settle at $3.50 with an exchange of 500 shares, Jamaican Teas dipped 20 cents in trading 52,900 units at $6.30, Jetcon Corporation traded 101,844 shares and declined by 15 cents to settle at $1.40, Key Insurance lost 70 cents to settle at $3.10. Knutsford Express climbed 19 cents and exchanged 1,319 shares at $9.35, Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 1 cent at $3.20 with 166,869 stock units changing hands, Lasco Financial declined 8 cents in trading 1,220 units at $4.02, Lasco Manufacturing closed 12 cents higher at $4.30, in trading 66,399 stock units. Lumber Depot fell 5 cents with 707,508 shares changing hands at $1.62, MailPac gained 5 cents to $2.14, with 6,343,722 stock units crossing the exchange, Main Event lost 20 cents in trading 887 shares to close at 6.10 cents. Paramount Trading shed 3 cents in transferring 10,549 units at $1.70, SSL Venture gained 1 cent to end at $1.24, after trading 81,100 shares and Stationery and Office Supplies closed 99 cents higher at $10, with 19,845 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
The Jamaica Stock Exchange Main Market dived sharply on Wednesday with the All Jamaica Composite Index tumbling 7,018.30 points to close at 545,531.01 and the JSE Market Index declining 6,328.36 points to 496,866.39.
Other stocks trading more than one million units were Caribbean Cement with 1 million units, Jamaica Broilers with 1.1 million shares, Jamaica Producers Group with 1.5 million shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange with 1.2 million, Sagicor Group with 1.14 million and Sagicor Select Manufacturing and Distribution Fund with 1.7 million units.
Proven Investments climbed $5.45 to end at $54.95, in trading 8,166 shares, Pulse Investments gained 44 cents to end at $6.94, in exchanging 43,234 shares, Radio Jamaica closed 36 cents higher to $1.77 after transferring 33,244 shares. Sagicor Group lost 90 cents to end at $70, with an exchange of 1,137,836 shares, Scotia Group dropped $3.50 to close at $54 trading 24,100 shares, Seprod closed $2 higher at $49 exchanging 284,322 units. Stanley Motta closed at $5.80, after gaining 30 cents in swapping 400 units, Supreme Ventures climbed $2.95 and settled at $23.97, after transferring 96,284 shares, Sygnus Credit Investments closed $1.30 higher to $26.90, with 29,288 shares changing hands. Victoria Mutual Investments added $1 to end at a record high of $12.50, in swapping 519,848 shares and in the preference segment, Eppley 8.25% lost 50 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ low of 5.50 after trading 16,000 stock units.
Trading on the Junior Market ended on Wednesday with prices of 15 securities rising, 14 declining and 3 remaining unchanged as the market Index fell by 31.46 points to close at 3,195.42. 
Key Insurance climbed 2 cents and exchanged 146,242 shares at $3.80, KLE Group ended market activity exchanging 2,113 shares to close at $2.04 after falling 6 cents, Lasco Distributors closed 4 cents higher at $3.21, trading 100 stock units. Lasco Financial ended with 300 shares changing hands, after rising 8 cents to end at $4.10, Lasco Manufacturing ended market activity exchanging 39,572 shares to close at $4.18 after falling 30 cents. Limners and Bards climbed 3 cents and exchanged 29,860 shares at $2.88, Lumber Depot closed with a loss of 3 cents at $1.67, in swapping 438,893 shares. MailPac ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.09 with 434,121 stock units changing hands, Main Event dipped 10 cents trading 88,629 units at $6.30, Medical Disposables ended trading with 7,000 shares, after rising 5 cents to end at $6.75. Paramount Trading lost 17 cents transferring 39,200 shares to close at $1.73, SSL Venture added 3 cents in exchanging 469,165 shares at $1.23 and Stationery and Office Supplies fell $1.14 in trading 16,974 units to close at $9.01.
The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange closed down on Wednesday as no stock gained while First Caribbean International Bank closed at a 52 weeks’ low.
Trading on the Junior Market ended on Tuesday with prices of 10 securities rising, 15 declining and 3 remaining unchanged as the market Index slipped 8.19 points to close at 3,226.88. 
Jetcon Corporation declined by 15 cents to settle at $1.50 with 11,497 shares crossing the exchange, Key Insurance ended trading with 512,969 shares, after rising 8 cents to end at $3.78, Knutsford Express closed trading of 987 units and gained 5 cents to end at $9.16. Lasco Distributors closed 1 cent higher at $3.17, with 36,799 stock units trading, Lasco Financial shed 28 cents in trading of 2,734 units at $4.02, Lasco Manufacturing climbed 17 cents and exchanged 101,737 shares at $4.48, Limners and Bards fell 14 cents in trading 29,418 units at $2.85. Lumber Depot declined 10 cents to settle at $1.70 while exchanging 491,831 units, MailPac closed trading of 740,424 units and gained 3 cents to end at $2.10. Main Event lost 10 cents in trading 49,160 shares to close at $6.40, Medical Disposables fell 89 cents in trading of 19,000 units at $6.70 and tTech ended exchanging 9,400 shares, after rising 10 cents to end at $5.60.
The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 551,005 units valued at $2,508,438 for each security changing hands, compared to 528,016 units valued at $2,464,544 for each security traded. Trading in December resulted in an average of 595,143 units valued at $9,344,514 for each security.
Radio Jamaica lost 48 cents to settle at $1.41, with 246,227 shares changing hands. Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended 60 cents lower to close at $9 while trading 183,700 shares, Scotia Group added $1 to close at $57.50, after swapping 563,570 shares, Seprod dropped $2.95 to end at $47 while trading 11,255 units. Supreme Ventures tumbled to $21.02, after falling $3.98 and exchanging 56,530 shares, Sygnus Credit Investments closed $1.15 lower to $25.60, with 31,627 shares changing hands and Victoria Mutual Investments rose to a record high of $11.50, with a gain of 54 cents to end at $11.50, as 337,888 shares crossed the exchange.
National Enterprises closed with a gain of 20 cents and closed at $5.70, with a transfer of 10,000 units and Republic Financial gained 26 cents and closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $136.01, with 14,857 units changing hands.
Activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange Main Market began the week with the major indices losing ground with rising stocks edging out declining ones.
Jamaica Stock Exchange advanced by $3.14 to $32, in exchanging 56,550 shares, JMMB Group lost 45 cents to close at $48, with 107,892 shares changing hands. Kingston Wharves climbed $5.57 to $61.60, in transferring 32,070 units, Mayberry Jamaican Equities ended 31 cents lower at $11.01, with an exchange of 22,155 shares, 138 Student Living gained 42 cents to settle at $4.22 trading 3,000 shares. PanJam Investment ended at $102, with a gain of $1 after exchanging 8,876 shares. Portland JSX lost $1.29 to end at $7.70, with 92,980 shares changing hands, Proven Investments gained $1 to $49, after transferring 29,275 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended 55 cents higher to close at $9.60 after trading 7,657 stock units. Scotia Group added 50 cents to settle at $56.50, with 91,557 shares changing hands, Supreme Ventures ended at $25, gaining $1 exchanging 54,697 shares, Victoria Mutual Investments closed 36 cents higher at $10.96, after swapping 334,266 shares and Wisynco Group rose $1 to $23, in trading 74,342 units.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Monday with Market Index advanced by 26.06 points to close at 3,235.07 from an equal number of stocks rising and falling. 
Jamaican Teas ended market activity, exchanging 140,915 shares to close at $6.69 after falling 19 cents, Jetcon Corporation climbed 20 cents and traded 55,131 shares at $1.65, Key Insurance ended market activity, with 18,397 shares crossing the exchange to close at $3.70 after falling 10 cents, KLE Group finished trading with 319,823 shares, after rising 6 cents to end at $2.10. Knutsford Express dropped 84 cents in transferring 2,033 units at $9.11. Lasco Distributors fell 13 cents and completed market activity exchanging 79,999 shares to close at $3.16, Lasco Financial lost 10 cents trading 52,450 stock units to close at $4.30, Lasco Manufacturing climbed 15 cents and exchanged 98,768 shares at $4.31. Limners and Bards ended with a loss of 1 cent at $2.99, with 28,873 stock units changing hands. Lumber Depot climbed 19 cents and exchanged 1,018,540 shares at $1.80, MailPac rose 2 cents in transferring of 459,048 shares at $2.07. Main Event ended trading with 2,740 shares, after rising 10 cents to $6.50, Medical Disposables closed 59 cents higher at $7.59, with 2,433 stock units trading and Paramount Trading closed with 15,041 units changing hands and gained 20 cents to end at $1.90.
