RA Williams captured just over 90 percent of all the shares traded on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday and contributed to 65 percent of the value exchanged. The volume of stocks traded increased by 430 percent, with 221 percent greater value than on Friday, as investors traded in all 47 listed securities, up from 39 on Friday and ending with prices of only 14 rising, 22 declining and 11 closing unchanged.
A total of 48,900,696 shares were exchanged for $25,636,425, up steeply from 9,227,293 units at $7,983,321 on Friday.
Trading ended with an average of 1,040,440 shares at $545,456, and jumped from 236,597 stock units at $204,701 on Friday, with the month to date, averaging 280,456 stock units at $327,929 compared with 222,658 stocks at $311,385 on the previous day and January with an average of 469,885 shares at $594,149.
RA Williams led trading with 44.15 million shares for 90.3 percent of total volume, followed by Dolla Financial with 1.43 million units for 2.9 percent of the day’s trade and Kintyre Holdings with 703,438 stocks for 1.4 percent of the volume traded.
At the close of trading, the Junior Market Index declined 9.01 points to settle at 3,328.59. The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows seven stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and two with lower offers.
The Junior Market ended trading with an average PE Ratio of 13.8, 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 the market, Access Financial slipped 80 cents and ended at $17.10 with investors trading a mere 73 shares, AMG Packaging sank 23 cents to $2.02 with 57,129 stock units passing through the market, CAC 2000 skidded 50 cents in closing at a 52 weeks low of $1.50 with investors dealing in 400 shares. Caribbean Assurance Brokers climbed 7 cents to $1.90, after investors swapped 37,830 units, Caribbean Cream increased 27 cents to finish at $1.90 with trading of 1,737 stocks, Derrimon Trading popped 7 cents to end at $1.70 with 73,908 units crossing the market. Dolphin Cove lost 70 cents and closed at $10.90 with investors trading 3,756 stocks, 
Elite Diagnostic dropped 8 cents to $1.42 with 141 shares changing hands, Fontana fell 10 cents to close at $7.55 in an exchange of 18,542 stock units. Iron Rock Insurance gained 20 cents to finish at $2.70, following trading of 1,612 shares, ISP Finance rose $1.21 and ended at $13.25 after a transfer of 22 stock units, Jetcon Corporation advanced by 7 cents to $2.30 as investors exchanged 5,644 units. Lumber Depot declined 9 cents to $2.30 with 136,469 stocks crossing the market, Medical Disposables sank 18 cents and ended at $1.16 in an exchange of 6,042 shares and Regency Petroleum dipped 35 cents to end at $4.10 with 4,220 stock units clearing the market.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.