Tuesday, 16th July 2013 | Caribbean Cream was the dominant trade today as 121.14 million units were crossed by Stock & Securities for a client in two blocks of 60.5 m units each. All traded at $1.10 for a total consideration of $133.26 million. At the time of the prospectus, Scoops Unlimited was shown as owning 121,141,801 units and this would have been the block that was traded and put into two new hands. The other dominant trade was National Commercial Bank which traded 1 million units at a value of $20.15 million. The stock traded up 44 cents on the day to close at $19.50.
A total of 30 companies traded 124 million stocks with a value at $172.67 million for the day. The advance decline ratio was exactly even with 7 stocks advancing and 7 declining. The indices declined sharply as Scotia Group dropped sharply on the day.
Trades of note Main Market | The all Jamaica Index gave up what was gained yesterday and more, as the index shed 2,310.88 points to close at 87,537.58 points. The JSE market index lost 1,312.62 points to close at 86,582.09 as Carreras traded 13,280 shares between $53.90 and $54.50. The stock closed off 87 cents at $54.50. Scotia Group traded 597,000 units and lost 92 cents to close at $21.08. Jamaica Producers lost 50 cents to close at $19.50 on 56,000 units, Pan Jamaican put on 39 cents to close at $51.50 while trading 5,000 shares.
Junior market | 12 stocks in the junior market traded as most of the stocks recorded moderate increases and the junior market index moved up by 7.03 points to 814.46. Caribbean Cream, fresh from its first quarterly report to the stock exchange which showed improved profit in the last quarter to May, traded 121.145 million units and closed at $1.06. AMG Packaging traded 200,000 units but remained firm at $4. 25, Blue Power traded 38,172 units to close at $10. Lasco Distributors has struggled to hold the higher prices it recently traded at and fell back to $1.50 while exchanging 155,517 shares. Lasco Financial is doing a little better having traded at a new all-time high during the day at $1.41 but closed at $1.40, the same close as Monday’s, as 227,500 units changed hands. Lasco Manufacturing traded 190,288 shares and gained a mere cent up to $1.66.
Market intelligence | The Cable & Wireless stocks on offer are now down to under 29 million shares at 15 cents. Gleaner has over 1.24 million units on the bid at $1.16 but there are 6.4 million units on offer at $1.50. RJR still has a bid for 4.9 million units that was at $1.23 and has seen the bid moved to $1.30.
IC bid-offer Indicator | At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer market sentiment indicator shows that bids for 5 stocks were higher with 2 stocks having offers lower than their last selling price.
