Trading on the Junior Market ended on Friday with prices of 15 securities advanced, 13 declined and 4 remained unchanged. The Junior Market Index declined by 10.36 points to close at 3,160.49.
The market closed with 33 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 2,690,069 units valued at $8,684,726 compared to 10,271,447 units for $27,200,810 from 33 securities on Thursday. The average PE Ratio of the market ended at 13.6 based on earnings for 2019.
Trading ended with an average of 81,517 units at $263,174 for each security, in contrast to 311,256 units, for an average of $824,267 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 160,209 units amounting to $589,682 and previously 165,393 units costing $611,189. In contrast, December closed with an average of 521,319 shares at $1,344,719 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows two stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and two with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Access Financial fell $1.40 in trading 4,312 units at $30.50, AMG Packaging climbed 4 cents and exchanged 500 shares at $2.08, Blue Power closed 5 cents higher at $4.20, with 10,292 stock units changing hands. Caribbean Cream ended market activity exchanging 17,916 shares to close at $4 after falling 10 cents, Caribbean Producers closed trading of 186,519 units and gained 1 cent to end at $5, Derrimon Trading climbed 29 cents and exchanged 125,226 shares at $2.50. Everything Fresh traded 431,669 shares, after rising 3 cents to end at $1.04, Express Catering declined 3 cents in trading of 43,873 units at $6.08, Fontana dipped 10 cents in exchanging of 142,186 units at $7. Fosrich ended with a loss of 1 cent at $4.49 with 76,788 stock units changing hands, General Accident shed 98 cents in swapping of 82,339 units at $6.01, GWest Corporation declined 3 cents trading 213,682 units at $1. Honey Bun climbed 17 cents after exchanging 33,378 shares to close at $8.67, iCreate swapped 13,145 shares, after rising 9 cents to end at 79 cents. Indies Pharma shed 2 cents with 126,233 units changing hands at $2.90, Iron Rock Insurance climbed 49 cents and exchanged 15,100 shares at $3.99, Jetcon Corporation closed 15 cents higher at $1.55, with 10,500 stock units trading. 
Key Insurance closed 69 cents higher at $3.79, with 102,403 stock units changing hands, Knutsford Express closed 85 cents higher at $10.20, with 3,574 stock units trading, Lasco Distributors shed 4 cents in transferring of 96,444 units at $3.16. Lasco Financial ended market activity, with 45,874 shares changing hands to close at $3.96 after falling 6 cents, Lasco Manufacturing shed 15 cents in trading of 74,364 units at $4.15. Limners and Bards ended with 31,893 shares, crossing the exchange after rising 2 cents to end at $2.90, Lumber Depot gained 1 to end at $1.63, in trading 231,475 shares, MailPac ended with a loss of 1 cent at 2.13 with 420,737 stock units changing hands, Main Event fell 4 cents in trading 5,940 units at $6.06. Medical Disposables closed market activity with 45,797 units and gained 75 cents to end at $7.50, SSL Venture dipped 16 cents in trading of 1,900 units at $1.08 and tTech closed with 100 units changing hands and gained 40 cents to end at $6.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
