Holdings, formerly iCreate and Jamaican Teas, beverage input producers commanded 84 percent of the volume of shares traded on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday, following a 72 percent increase in the shares traded in the market, with the value in line with Thursday’s level with trading in 47 securities up from 42 on Thursday and ending with prices of 21 rising, 11 declining and 15 closing unchanged as the Junior Market Index dropped 24.63 points to 3,717.37 and pushing the market back into negative for the year to date.
The market closed with 22,554,448 shares being traded at $24,909,066 compared with 13,148,598 units at $24,952,294 on Thursday.
Trading averaged 479,882 shares at $529,980 versus 313,062 stocks at $594,102 on Thursday with the month to date, averaging 217,458 units at $349,822 compared to 145,330 stock units at $300,304 on the previous day and January with an average of 350,850 shares at $615,775.
Kintyre Holdings led trading with 13.26 million shares for 58.8 percent of total volume followed by Jamaican Teas with 5.72 million stocks for 25.4 percent of the day’s trade and Omni Industries with 1.03 million stock units for 4.6 percent of stocks traded.
At the close of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows two stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and three with lower offers.
The Junior Market ended trading with an average PE Ratio of 13.3, based on last traded prices in conjunction with earnings projected by ICInsider.com for financial years ending around August 2025.
At the close of trading, Access Financial advanced 94 cents to $17.99 with investors swapping 496 stocks, Blue Power increased 41 cents to close trading at $5.52 in an exchange of 842 units, Everything Fresh climbed 35 cents to close at $2.05 with an exchange of 4,906 shares. Fosrich dipped 7 cents and ended at $2.20 after a transfer of 100,196 stock units, Future Energy increased 7 cents to close at $3.50 with 93,896 shares clearing the market, Indies Pharma rose 8 cents to finish at $3.60 with an exchange of 5,005 stocks. 
Iron Rock Insurance gained 6 cents and ended at $4.20 with 148 units changing hands, Jamaican Teas sank 27 cents to $2.23 with a transfer of 5,719,042 stock units, Knutsford Express rallied 32 cents to close at $12.82 with 1,285 shares crossing the exchange. Lumber Depot rose 10 cents in closing at $2.90 with traders trading 14,098 stocks, Paramount Trading slipped 6 cents to finish at $1.10 in an exchange of 5,088 units and tTech sank 40 cents to end at $1.56 with investors dealing in 18,736 stocks.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.