One on One Education, e-learning providers, closed trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Monday, with just under a third of the shares traded in the overall market, with a 61 percent drop in the volume of stocks traded with a 37 percent lower value than Friday following with trading in 44 securities on both Monday and Friday and ending with prices of 11 rising, 22 declining and 11 closing unchanged.
The market closed with trading of 8,741,477 shares for $14,081,470 down from 22,390,313 stock units at $22,377,409 on Friday.
Trading averaged 198,670 shares worth $320,033, well below the 508,871 stocks worth $508,577 on Friday with trading for the month to date, averaging 217,742 units at $320,157, in line with the 219,928 stock units at $320,171 on the previous day and below trading in February, ending with an average of 246,071 shares at $454,487.
ONE on ONE Educational led trading with 2.57 million shares for 29.5 percent of total volume followed by Derrimon Trading which ended with 1.43 million stocks for 16.3 percent of the day’s trade and Kintyre Holdings with 1.40 million stock units for 16 percent of total trades.
At the close of trading, the Junior Market Index skidded 48.35 points to close at 3,503.42. The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows 11 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and just two with lower offers.
The Junior Market ended trading with an average PE Ratio of 13.7, based on last traded prices in conjunction with earnings projected by ICInsider.com for financial years ending around August 2025.
At the close of market activity, Access Financial advanced 8 cents in closing at $16.40 with a transfer of just 3 stock units, AMG Packaging fell 10 cents to close at $2.80 with 54 shares crossing the exchange and Caribbean Flavours skidded 11 cents to finish at $1.18 with investors trading 7 stocks. Dolphin Cove popped 15 cents and ended at $18.65 in an exchange of 9,891 units, Everything Fresh sank 50 cents to close at $1.50 with traders dealing in 1,209 shares, Express Catering increased 30 cents to end at $2.90 in an exchange of 28,270 units. Fontana declined 14 cents to $8.84 with investors dealing in 184,964 stocks, Honey Bun climbed 49 cents and ended at $7.90 after a transfer of 13,456 stock units, Indies Pharma rose 13 cents to finish at $3.40 with 11,514 shares crossing the market. ISP Finance sank $9 in closing at $22 after an exchange of 20,967 stock units, 
Knutsford Express shed $1.92 to close at $12.30 with 590 units passing through the market, Limners and Bards dropped 11 cents to end at $1.09 with an exchange of 416 stocks. Medical Disposables lost 18 cents in closing at $1.35 with 11,501 units clearing the market, Omni Industries dipped 9 cents to 91 cents with 200,289 stocks switching owners, RA Williams slipped 6 cents to close at 63 cents with investors trading 106,800 shares. Regency Petroleum sank 7 cents and ended at $3.03 with 34,777 stock units changing hands, Spur Tree Spices gained 7 cents to finish at $1.39 in trading 56,604 shares and Tropical Battery rallied 14 cents to end at $2.50 with 843 stock units crossing the market.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.