Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Monday with 29 securities changing hands, with the prices of 11 securities advanced, 8 declined and 10 remained unchanged and the Junior Market Index falling 18.43 points to 3,203.91.
Trading resulted in an exchange of 3,001,791 units valued at $10,821,358 compared to 2,589,319 units valued at $7,927,611 on Friday, from 23 securities changing hands. Trading ended with an average of 103,510 units for an average of $373,150 in contrast to 112,579 units for an average of $344,679 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 578,429 units valued at $2,341,491, previously 617,911 units valued at $2,530,504. In contrast, December ended with an average of 136,222 units at a value of $737,367 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling prices and just 2 closing with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activities, Access Financial closed with a loss of $1 at $49, in trading of 2,286 shares, AMG Packaging ended 10 cents higher at $2.80, with an exchange of 546,887 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading of 23,948 units at $4.95, Cargo Handlers settled 50 cents higher at a 52 weeks’ high of $15.50, with 1,000 shares changing hands. Caribbean Cream ended trading with 181,879 shares, rising 36 cents higher to $5.85, Caribbean Flavours traded 10,200 stock units, and gained $2 to close at $19, Caribbean Producers finished trading 38,890 units, for 1 cent higher at $4.97, Consolidated Bakeries closed with a loss of 5 cents at $2.10, in exchanging 28,740 shares. Derrimon Trading ended 35 cents higher at $2.95, with 18,012 shares changing hands, Elite Diagnostic finished 18 cents higher at $3.05, with 382,687 stock units trading, Everything Fresh rose 8 cents in trading 104,348 shares at $1.92, Express Catering settled at $8, with 129,312 units changing hands, Fontana lost 10 cents in trading 1,105,394 shares and closed at $3.20. FosRich Group ended trading 11,067 shares, for 10 cents higher at $4, GWest Corporation finished trading at $1.75, with an exchange of 4,931 shares. Honey Bun closed at $3.75, with 1,812 stock units trading, Indies Pharma fell 5 cents to end at $2.95, trading 85,832 shares, ISP Finance concluded trading of 6,995 shares at $13, KLE Group traded 1,039 units with a loss of 10 cents to end at $2.80, Knutsford Express traded 12,868 shares at $13. Lasco Distributors closed at $3.70, in trading 50,300 shares, Lasco Financial ended 10 cents higher at $4.45, in swapping 22,703 shares, Lasco Manufacturing concluded trading of 2,000 stock units, with a loss of 30 cents at $3.40, Main Event finished 8 cents higher at $6.98, with 33,323 units changing hands. Medical Disposables settled with a loss of 10 cents at $6.50, after 1,000 shares were exchanged, SSL Venture Capital exchanged 33,723 shares to close at $1.95, Stationery and Office traded 20,816 shares at $8.50 and tTech closed at $5.50, trading 35,022 units. In the junior market preference segment, CAC 2000 closed with a loss of 10 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ low of at $1, with 104,777 shares traded.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.