Kingston Wharves dominates JSE trading

Trading surged on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Tuesday Kingston Wharves traded 17.7 million shares valued at $496 million and swelled the overall trade for the day sharply higher than on Monday with all three markets rising at the close with Transjamaican Highway continuing to hit record highs and closed at $2.21.
Trading ended with the JSE Combined Market Index popping 826.66 points to 342,175.85, while the All Jamaican Composite Index rallied 810.40 points to 362,087.53, the JSE Main Index climbed 469.12 points to 329,000.52. The Junior Market Index jumped 42.50 points to close at 3,844.90 and seems to be breaking out from wedge-shaped chart formation, while the JSE USD Market Index popped 4.19 points to  238.13.
Preference shares with notable price movements but are not in the Main Market TOP10 graphs are Eppley 7.25% preference share declined $2.85 in closing at $16.15, Eppley 7.50% preference share added $1.19 to end at $7.39, Jamaica Public Service 7% gained $2 in closing at $52, Jamaica Public Service 9.5% fell $22 to close at $2978. 138 Student Living preference share rose $6.99 and ended at $87.99 and Productive Business Solutions 9.75% preference share dipped $14.50 to $91.50.
At the close, investors exchanged 60,867,391 shares in all three markets on Tuesday compared to 22,548,034 shares on Tuesday. The value of stocks trading in the Junior and main markets was $609.18 million, up sharply from $90.9 million on Tuesday. Trading on the JSE USD market resulted in investors exchanging 132,703 shares for US$3,992 compared to 2,048,216 units at US$53,374 on Tuesday.
The market’s PE ratio ended at 18.2 on 2022-23 earnings and 11.4 times those for 2023-24 at the close of trading.
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