The Jamaica Stock Exchange Main Market ended trading on Wednesday with the market recovering some of Tuesday’s losses, with an equal number of stocks rising and falling after investors exchanged 3 percent more shares than Tuesday and 33 percent less in value.
Eppley closed at a 52 weeks’ high on Wednesday.
At the close, the All Jamaican Composite Index rose 3,138.65 points to settle at 403,810.64, the Main Index carved out a gain of 2,872.53 points to settle at 368,546.40, the JSE Financial Index increased 0.60 points to settle at 97.15.
Trading ended with 43 securities changing hands compared to 40 securities on Tuesday and ended with the prices of 18 stocks rising, the prices of 18 stocks declining and seven remaining unchanged and the average PE Ratio of the market ended at 15.5 based on IC Insider.com’s forecast of 2020-21 earnings.
The market closed with an exchange of 22,689,448 shares for $201,190,246 compared to 15,897,876 units at $260,424,238 on Tuesday.
Transjamaican Highway led trading with 11.06 million shares for 48.8 percent of total volume followed by Sagicor Real Estate Fund with 5.38 million units for 23.7 percent of the day’s trade, QWI Investments with 1.55 million units for 6.8 percent market share and Wigton Windfarm ended with 1.17 million shares changing hands for 5 percent of total shares changing hands.
Trading ended with an average of 527,662 units changing hands for the day at $4,678,843 for each security, in comparison to an average of 397,447 shares at $6,510,606 on Tuesday. The average trade for the month to date ended at 451,449 units at $2,990,347 for each security, in contrast to 446,707 units at $2,885,266. Trading month to date compares exceeds, July with an average of 392,128 shares for $2,444,356.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading for the market shows six stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and three with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Caribbean Cement climbed $2.99 to close at $44, with 205,670 shares passing through the market, Carreras lost 50 cents to end at $6.08 in exchanging 110,391 stock units, Eppley rose 99 cents to settle at a 52 weeks’ high of $22.99 with an exchange of 903 units. 
Eppley Caribbean Property Fund gained 50 cents to end at $50 after 6,411 units passed through the market, Grace Kennedy carved out a loss $1.48 to settle at $55.01, with 99,348 stocks passing through the market, Jamaica Broilers Group gained $1.30 to end at $24.80 in exchanging 6,351 stock units. Jamaica Stock Exchange lost 80 cents to settle at $19 after 23,485 stocks crossed the exchange, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy shed $5 to close at $150 in an exchange of 66 shares, NCB Financial Group gained $1.48 in closing at $139.98, trading 728,385 stocks. Proven Investments dropped by $1.90 in closing at $36.10, with 700 stock units changing hands, Sagicor Group gained $1.45 to close at $45.50, after 266,558 stocks passed through the market, Scotia Group jumped $4.50 to close at $49.50 with an exchange of 36,229 stock units and Seprod advanced by $2.99 in closing at $54 and exchanging 7,026 shares.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
