The highlights this past week is that after one week back in the ICInsider.com TOP10 list, Dolphin Cove’s price surged from $9.86 to the week’s high of $12.50 for a rise of 27 percent but closed the week at $11.60 for a healthy 18 percent gain for the week.
Dolphin Cove’s price bounced last week.
RJR just held on to the TOP 10 with a gain of 135 percent for the year to date, but the stock that is trading with good volume traded as high as $4.78 during the week.
Proven Investments joins the Main market TOP10 and replaces Scotia Group while Jetcon Corporation price dipped to 91 cents and replaces tTech, with the price rising to $4.79 from $4.40 last week. Elsewhere, Future Energy Source, one of ICInsider.com BUY RATED stocks when the IPO came to market in April, gained 311 percent to date, but with projected earnings of 13 cents per share and the price at $3.29, the PE is a rich 25 times earnings and seems overpriced based on prices of other Junior Market stocks. Radio Jamaica, as previously suggested by ICInsider.com, the directors will be meeting on September 6 to consider a dividend payment.
The charting of the Junior and Main Market indices shows early signs of the markets bouncing from the mild summer correction. We may be seeing early signs of a longer term rebound, with the Main and Junior Markets closing at the highest levels this week since July 23.
Outside the Junior and Main markets TOP10, investors should keep an eye on AMG Packaging and Sterling Investments.
The top three Main Market stocks are Berger Paints, with the potential to gain 273 percent, followed by Guardian Holdings and JMMB Group, with expected gains of 214 to 273 percent for the three, versus last weeks’ 202 to 277 percent.
The top three stocks in the Junior Market are Elite Diagnostic, followed by General Accident and Lasco Financial. All three have the potential to gain between 217percent and 283 percent, compared to 227 and 268 percent last week. Stationery and Office Supplies closed the previous week at $5.75 to sit at number 2 in the Junior Market list enjoyed a bounce in price to $6.50 and moved down to the 8th spot this week.
This past week the average gains projected for the Junior Market dropped from 207 percent to 191 percent and Main Market stocks from 172 percent to 168 percent.
The Junior Market closed the week with an average PE of 11.8 based on ICInsider.com’s 2021-22 earnings and currently trades well below the target of 20 as well as the historical average of 17 for the period to March this year, based on 2020 earnings. The TOP 10 trades at a PE of 7, with a 40 percent discount to the PE of that market and the potential to rise 69 percent to march next year, based on an average PE of 20.
The JSE Main Market ended the week with an overall PE of 15.6, a little distance from the 19 the market ended at in March, suggesting a 12 percent rise at a PE of 19 and 28 percent at a PE of 20 from now to March 2022. The Main Market TOP 10 trades at a PE of 7.7, with a 50 percent discount to that market’s average PE, well off the potential of 20.
The TOP10 stocks are not always the best stocks in the market but are most likely to be the best winners within a fifteen-month period. IC ranked stocks to filter out the big winners, allowing investors to focus on potentially big winners and help to keep out emotional attachments to stocks.
IC TOP10 stocks are likely to deliver the best returns up to March 2022 and ranked in order of potential gains, based on likely increase for each company, taking into account the earnings and PE ratios for the current fiscal year. Expected values will change as stock prices fluctuate and result in weekly movements in and out of the lists. Revisions to earnings per share are ongoing, based on receipt of new information.
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