Dolla Financial ended 2025 with an exchange of 532 million share trade in shares with a value of $1.6 billion, as Dequity Capital seems to offload their holdings in the company, resulting trading activity closed on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Wednesday, surging 2,391 percent valued 3,957 percent more than Tuesday with trading in 43 securities compared with 40 on Tuesday and ending with prices of 12 rising, 15 declining and 16 closing unchanged. The year closed with only 13 stocks gaining, with 34 declining.
The market closed with trading of 569,271,812 shares, with a value of $1,715,858,400, well over the mere 22,852,005 units at $42,292,961 on Tuesday.
Trading closed with an average of 13,238,879 shares at $39,903,684 compared with 571,300 stock units at $1,057,324 on Tuesday. Trading for the month to date, ended with an average of 1,003,109 stock units at $2,482,468, up from just 365,366 shares at $532,029 on the previous day and November that closed with an average of 224,300 shares at $353,285.
Dolla Financial led trading with 531.69 million shares for 93.4 percent of total volume followed by AMG Packaging which ended with 19.62 million stock units for 3.4 percent of the day’s trade, Jamaican Teas closed with 4.22 million stocks for 0.7 percent of the volume traded , RA Williams ended with 3.60 million units for 0.6 percent of the day’s volume, Kintyre Holdings closed with 3.23 million units for 0.6 percent of trading and Mailpac Group with 1.56 million units for 0.3 percent of market share.
At the close of trading, the Junior Market Index climbed 12.09 points to settle at 3,401.41, with a loss of 8.9 percent for the year following a decline in 2024 of just 2.9 percent. The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows seven stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and three with lower offers.
The Junior Market ended trading with an average PE Ratio of 14, derived by dividing the last traded price of a stock by the earnings per share.
ICInsider.com compiles the PE ratios in this report for companies with their financial year ending around August 2026.
At the close, Access Financial dropped 29 cents in closing at $18.50 after an exchange of 547 shares, Atlantic Hardware shed 10 cents to $1.48 after changing ownership of 796,489 stocks, Blue Power climbed 44 cents and ended at $4.50 after 107,762 shares passed through the market. Cargo Handlers lost 30 cents to close at $18.50 with a transfer of 1,200 stock units, Caribbean Flavours increased by 34 cents to finish at $1.85, with 177,674 units crossing the market, Consolidated Bakeries popped 24 cents to end at $1.84 in an exchange of 5,412 stocks. Dolla Financial rallied 67 cents in closing at $3.10 with investors trading 531,693,624 units, Everything Fresh rose 8 cents to $2.19 with 2,637 shares crossing the exchange, Fontana fell 20 cents and ended at $7.78 in the trading of 33,462 stock units. 
Honey Bun declined 10 cents to finish at $7.10 after an exchange of 5,130 shares, Kintyre Holdings sank 6 cents to end at 70 cents with investors swapping 3,226,652 stock units, after trading at an intraday 52 weeks high of 83 cents, Lumber Depot slipped 10 cents to close at $2.80 in switching ownership of 4,191 stocks. MFS Capital Partners sank 6 cents to 39 cents with investors dealing in 20,997 units, Omni Industries gained 12 cents in closing at $1.02 in an exchange of 216,239 stocks and Stationery and Office Supplies advanced 8 cents to close at $1.65 after closing with an exchange of 1,046,271 units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.