Advancing and declining Junior Market stocks were evenly matched at the close of trading on Wednesday, after an exchange of 82 percent fewer stocks than Tuesday’s heightened level.
Trading ended with 31 securities changing hands compared to 33 on Tuesday and ended with the prices of 12 stocks rising, the prices of 13 stocks declining and six ended, with the prices remaining unchanged.
At the close, the Junior Market Index rose 41.15 points to settle at 2,644.56 and the average PE Ratio of the market ended at 10.6 based on IC Insider.com’s forecast of 2020-21 earnings.
The market closed with an exchange of 1,895,699 shares for $7,143,931, compared to 10,650,793 units at $25,292,615 on Tuesday. Mailpac Group led trading with 446,158 shares for 23.5 percent of total volume, followed by Lumber Depot with 308,194 units for 16.3 percent of the day’s trade and Lasco Manufacturing with 178,175 units for 9.4 percent market share.
Trading ended with an average of 61,152 units at $230,449, in contrast to 322,751 at $766,443 on Tuesday. For the month to date, the average trade resulted in 141,956 units exchanged at $385,982, in comparison to 154,964 units at $411,094 on Monday. Trading in July resulted in an average of 248,153 units trading at $668,727 for each security.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading for the market shows one stock ended with bid higher than their last selling price and four with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial dropped 89 cents in ending at $26.10, with 1,700 shares crossing the exchange, AMG Packaging slipped 20 cents to end at $1.54 trading 12,100 units, Blue Power gained 20 cents to end at $3.40 in exchanging 2,166 shares. Caribbean Assurance Brokers rose 9 cents to end at $2.24 while exchanging 19,410 stocks, Caribbean Cream advanced by 15 cents to settle at $4.25, with 35,001 stock units passing through the market, Caribbean Producers shed 4 cents to close at $2.40 trading 65,450 units. Derrimon Trading declined by 30 cents to settle at $2.70 with 70,079 shares changing hands, Elite Diagnostic carved out a gain of 45 cents in finishing at $3.65, while trading 5,000 shares. Express Catering climbed 45 cents to settle at $3.90, with 740 shares changing hands, Fontana shed 1 cent to end at $5.01 and clearing the market with 89,132 units, Fosrich advanced 20 cents and closed at $3.90 in exchanging 500 stocks. General Accident fell 1 cent in ending at $7.49, with 77,647 stocks passing through the market, iCreate gained 1 cent to settle at 63 cents trading 9,600 stock units, Indies Pharma dropped by 5 cents to end at $2.90 in exchanging 47,138 units. 
Jamaican Teas carved out a gain of 2 cents in closing at $5.02 and exchanging 100,297 shares, Knutsford Express increased 5 cents to close at $6.90 in trading 28,804 stocks.
Lasco Distributors climbed 1 cent and closed at $3.21, with 166,500 stock units changing hands. Lasco Manufacturing lost 13 cents to settle at $3.77 in trading 178,175 stock nits, Limners and Bards slipped 11 cents to $2.79 after 9,680 stock units passed through the market, Lumber Depot gained 3 cents to end at $1.04, with 308,194 shares clearing the market. Mailpac Group fell 5 cents to close at $2.10, with 446,158 stock units crossing the market, Medical Disposables lost 7 cents to finish at $4.93 with 205 stock units changing hands, SSL Venture lost 3 cents to end at 75 cents finishing with an exchange of 12,412 stock units and tTech declined by $1.20 to close at $4.75 in exchanging 28,090 stock units.
In the preference shares segment, Derrimon Trading preference shares rose 20 cents to close at $2 in an exchange of 5,000 stock units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
