The Main Market lost 2 percent in value for the week while the Junior Market inched a few points higher, in a period of falling interest rates that will be beneficial to stocks in the coming months. The market movement did nothing to prevent some sizable price changes in the TOP10 lists.
The All JSE TOP10 had no new listing this week but Caribbean Cream which headed the list last week dropped to the eighth position, following a downward revision in projected earnings. The All JSE TOP10 includes ten stocks listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange with the highest potential gains, based on projected 2024 earnings.
In the Junior Market TOP10, Cargo Handlers rose 14 percent to $9.08, followed by Caribbean Cream with a gain of 13 percent to $3.45 and Elite Diagnostic gained 10 percent to close at $1.75 and sits at the top of the ICTOP10 list, with both stocks in the All JSE TOP10.
Access Financial lost 12 percent to $19.03, Caribbean Assurance fell 10 percent to $3.10 as the price keeps bouncing around the $3.10 to $3.80 range, awaiting the approach of the next quarterly results. One Great Studio dropped 9 percent to 72 cents, Iron Rock Insurance and Stationery & Office Supplies shed 5 percent to close at $3 and $1.65 respectively.
Caribbean Cream released its first quarter results with revenues and profits surging as previously indicated. Revenues jumped a solid 26 percent to $764 million, with profit after tax more than doubling to $15 million from $7 million last year and almost tripling before tax to $20.4 million. The first quarter net profit represents 43 percent of 2024 full year earnings. ICInsider.com forecast is for earnings of 70 cents for the 2025 fiscal year results. The company stock is listed as the third most attractive one on the Junior Market.
In the Main Market, Key Insurance rose 7 percent to end at $2.98. Guardian Holdings dropped 10 percent to $288 and heads both the IC Main Market TOP10 and the All JSE TOP10. JMMB Group declined by 7 percent to $20.73 and Berger Paints slipped 4 percent to $6.10, with limited buying interest currently.
There were two changes to the Junior Market TOP10 listings for the week, with Image Plus and Lumber Depot coming in as Cargo Handlers and Access Financial dropping out.
The average PE for the JSE Main Market ICTOP 10 stands at 4.9, well below the market average of 13.9 and the Junior Market TOP10 sits at 6, just less than half of the market, with an average of 12.4.
The Main Market ICTOP10 is projected to gain an average of 333 percent by May 2025, based on 2024 forecasted earnings and providing better values than the Junior Market with the potential to achieve 240 percent over the same period.
In the Main Market ICTOP 10, a total of 16 of the most highly valued stocks representing 31 percent of the Main Market have PEs between 15 to 107, with an average of 29 and 20 excluding the highest PE ratios, and a PE of 23 for the top half of the market with the highest values and 17 excluding the stocks with overweight values.
In the Junior Market IC TOP10 are 7 stocks, 15 percent of the market, with PEs ranging from 15 to 22 and a PE of 17 for half of the market with the highest values.
ICTOP10 focuses on likely yearly winners, accordingly, the list includes some of the best companies in the market, but this is not always so. ICInsider.com ranks stocks based on projected earnings, allowing investors to focus on the most undervalued stocks and helping to remove emotions in selecting stocks for investments that often result in costly mistakes.
IC TOP10 stocks will likely deliver the best returns on or around May 2025 and are ranked in order of potential gains, computed using projected earnings for the current fiscal year. Expected values will change as stock prices fluctuate, resulting in weekly movements in and out of the lists. Revisions to earnings are ongoing, based on receipt of new information.
Persons who compiled this report may have an interest in securities commented on in this report.
