Steady Jamaica Stock Exchange activity on Tuesday ended with a big fall in the volume of stocks exchanged, at a lower value than on Monday, resulting in all three markets slipping marginally, resulting in prices of 30 shares rising, 45 declining and 31 remaining firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index slipped 97.83 points to finish at 319,882.42, the All Jamaican Composite Index increased by just 2.00 points to settle at 355,133.02, the JSE Main Index dipped 80.17 points to 308,775.28, the Junior Market Index lost just 2.94 points to end at 3,436.80 and the JSE USD Market Index shed 1.25 points to finish at 203.69.
At the close of trading, 10,985,037 shares were exchanged in all three markets, down from 39,650,572 units on Monday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $52.94 million, down from $113.82 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 90,425 shares for US$17,687 up from 75,504 units at US$8,352 on Monday.
In Main Market activity, Transjamaican Highway led trading with 4.52 million shares, followed by Wigton Energy with 1.43 million stocks and JMMB Group 7.35% – 2028 with 603,691 units.
In Junior Market trading, Tropical Battery led with 549,104 shares, followed by Fontana with 483,158 stock units and Derrimon Trading with 375,500 units.
In the preference segment, Jamaica Public Service 7% sank $6.63 to $37, Productive Business Solutions 10.5% dipped $20 to end at $1,060 and Sygnus Credit Investments 10% popped $4.45 in closing at $108.
The market’s PE ratio, the most used measure to value stocks, ended at 13.7 based on 2024-25 earnings and 16.2 based on historical earnings.
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