Big Wigton trade as Main Market dives

Wigton Windfarm dominated trading in the Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange with more than 560 million of its shares being traded as investors continue to gobble up the stock, with the pending lifting of the ten percent ownership limitation to be lifted this year, but the trade did nothing to lift the Main Market that plunged several thousand points on the day the JSE USD market closed at a new record high and the Junior Market inched up a few points following the surge in the number of stocks changing hands, with a hugely higher value than the previous day, resulting in prices of 40 shares rising and 37 declining.
At the close of trading, the JSE Combined Market Index nose dived 5,043.75 points to close at 343,893.14, the All Jamaican Composite Index plunged 5,613.72 points to 370,561.10, the JSE Main Index sank 5,393.37 points to end at 330,935.39. The Junior Market Index popped 1.64 points to 3,828.33 and the JSE USD Market Index gained 2.30 points to end at a record high of 269.04
At the close of trading, 575,019,706 shares were exchanged in all three markets, up sharply from 73,323,889 units on Wednesday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $627.86 million, up from $126.9 million on the previous trading day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 74,096 shares for US$22,194 compared to 268,496 units at US$15,237 on Wednesday.
Trading in the Main Market was dominated by Wigton Windfarm led trading with 561.55 million shares followed by Transjamaican Highway with 1.49 million stock units and Sagicor Select Financial Fund with 1.09 million units.
In the Junior Market, Lasco Distributors led trading with 4.65 million shares followed by Regency Petroleum with 522,994 units and Fosrich with 454,665 stock units.
The market’s PE ratio, the most popular measure used to determine the value of stocks, ended at 20.5 on 2022-23 earnings and 14.2 times those for 2023-24 at the close of trading. ICInsider.com PE ratio chart and the more detailed daily charts provide investors with regularly updated information to help decision-making.
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