Friday’s trades ended with a 15 percent volume drop and a 17 percent lower value than Thursday at the close of the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday. Market activity resulted in trading of 40 securities compared to 39 on Thursday and ended with prices increasing for 18, while 10 declined and 12 closed unchanged, resulting in a market index bounce.
The market closed with trading of 7,013,935 shares for $7,728,227 after falling from 8,241,131 units at $9,318,536 on Thursday.
Trading averaged 175,348 shares at $193,206, dipping from 211,311 shares at $238,937 on Thursday, with the month to date, averaging 368,764 stock units at $531,442 in shrinking from 382,266 stock units at $555,054 on the previous day and higher than November, with an average of 224,300 shares at $353,285.
Kintyre Holdings led trading with 2.49 million shares for 35.5 percent of total volume, followed by Atlantic Hardware, ending with 1.26 million stock units for 18 percent of the day’s trade and Omni Industries with 900,063 stocks for 12.8 percent of the volume traded.
At the close of trading, the Junior Market Index climbed 11.52 points to 3,261.76. The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows four stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and two with lower offers.
The Junior Market ended trading with an average PE Ratio of 13, 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 financial year ending around August 2026.
At the close of the market, Atlantic Hardware popped 11 cents to close at $1.50 in trading of 1,261,359 shares, CAC 2000 dropped 7 cents to $2.22 with 474 stock units changing hands, Caribbean Assurance Brokers lost 50 cents to close at a 52 weeks low of $1.27 after an exchange of 3,000 shares. Caribbean Flavours advanced 14 cents to $1.89 in trading of 8,859 stocks, Dolla Financial dipped 10 cents and ended at $2.30 after an exchange of 118,796 units, Future Energy rose 8 cents to $2.87 after swapping of 116,119 shares. GWest Corporation gained 6 cents and ended at 70 cents in trading 1,946 stocks, 
Iron Rock Insurance rallied 50 cents to $3 with 82 stocks passing through the market, ISP Finance increased by 50 cents in closing at $17 as investors traded 113 units. Kintyre Holdings rose 6 cents to close at 48 cents, after ownership of 2,486,467 shares was switched, KLE Group sank 13 cents to close at 81 cents with investors swapping 25,107 stock units, Knutsford Express rose $1.49 to $11.99 in an exchange of 16 shares. ONE on ONE Educational rallied 7 cents to 85 cents with investors trading 15,856 stock units and Spur Tree Spices increased 6 cents to finish at $1.11 with 104,927 shares crossing the market.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.