The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange inched higher at the close on Wednesday, with the value of stocks trading jumping by 67 percent with the volume traded rising by 23 percent over trading on Tuesday, with Dolla Financial Services contributing 34 percent to the volume traded and a little over 55 percent of the total value of stock trades. Trading ended with an exchange of 44 securities, slipping from 46 on Tuesday and ending with prices of 17 rising, 19 declining and eight closing unchanged.
The market closed with trading of 16,450,367 shares for $22,859,222 climbing up from 13,321,936 units at $13,727,515 on Tuesday.
Trading averaged 373,872 shares at $519,528, after an increase from 289,607 stock units at $298,424 on Tuesday. Trading for the month to date, ended with average 331,211 units at $420,028 compared to 310,808 stock units at $372,441 on the previous day and down from January, with an average of 469,885 shares at $594,149.
Kintyre Holdings led trading with 6.47 million shares for 39.3 percent of total volume, followed by Dolla Financial, ending with 5.63 million stocks for 34.2 percent of the day’s trade and Fosrich with 1.61 million shares for 9.8 percent of the day’s trade.
At the close of trading, the Junior Market Index advanced 14.88 points to settle at 3,358.54. The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows seven stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and five with lower offers.
The Junior Market ended with an average PE Ratio of 13.5, 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 their financial year ending around August 2026.
At the close of trading, AMG Packaging rallied 26 cents in closing at $2.42 following an exchange of 109,432 shares, CAC 2000 rose 30 cents to $2 closed at 402 stock units, Dolla Financial gained 10 cents and ended at $2.40 with 5,631,037 shares crossing the exchange. Dolphin Cove fell $1.02 to end at $10.96 with investors trading 2,271 units, GWest Corporation popped 10 cents to finish at 85 cents after an exchange of 419 stocks, Honey Bun climbed 24 cents to close at $6.59 with 21,565 units crossing the market. Image Plus increased 8 cents to 93 cents with traders switching ownership of 1,081 stocks, Iron Rock Insurance advanced 60 cents in closing at $3.40 after a transfer of 76 shares, 
ISP Finance sank 15 cents to finish at $14.80 with investors trading a mere one stock unit. Jetcon Corporation rose 9 cents and ended at $2.29 after an exchange of 13,191 shares, Knutsford Express advanced by $1.08 to end at $11.11 after trading of 1,107 stocks, Lumber Depot popped 14 cents to close at $2.74 in an exchange of 56,772 units. Mailpac Group shed 8 cents to end at $2.79 with 120,468 stock units crossing the market, Medical Disposables fell 20 cents and ended at $1.15 in trading 85,006 shares, Regency Petroleum skidded 7 cents to end at $3.88 with 69,309 stocks changing hands and Stationery and Office Supplies lost 12 cents in closing at $1.55 with investors swapping 101,454 units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.