Stocks rebounded sharply in trading on Wednesday, wiping out 72 percent of Tuesday’s big loss in the Jamaica Stock Exchange Junior Market index putting it in close touch of the 2,900 points level again.
Trading ended with 38 securities changing hands down from 40 on Tuesday with the prices of 15 stocks rising, 15 declining and eight closing unchanged.
The Junior Market Index jumped 34.13 points to 2,887.33. The average PE Ratio ended at 16.4 based on ICInsider.com’s forecast of 2020-21 earnings.
Investors exchanged 37 percent fewer shares at 45 percent less value than on Tuesday, resulting from trading of 5,551,072 shares for $15,784,558, down from 8,845,580 units at $27,670,299 on Tuesday.
Jamaican Teas led trading with 20.7 percent of total volume of 1.15 million shares, followed by Derrimon Trading with 20.2 percent, with a transfer of 1.12 million units and Mailpac Group with 14.1 of the day’s trade for 782,591 units.
Trading averaged 146,081 units at $415,383 in contrast to 221,140 at $691,757 on Tuesday. The month to date averaged 203,082 units at $581,565, down from 231,583 units at $664,656 on Tuesday. February closed with an average of 365,365 units at $881,118.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows four stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and none with lower offers.
At the close, Access Financial dropped $2.10 to $20.90, trading 2,830 shares, Caribbean Assurance Brokers fell 8 cents to $1.77 with 76,811 stocks changing hands, Caribbean Flavoursclimbed 40 cents to $2.50 trading 601,102 units. Caribbean Producers slipped 5 cents to $2.98 with 47,814 shares passing through the market, Everything Fresh declined by 16 cents to close at 84 cents with a transfer of 30,224 stocks, Express Catering jumped 55 cents to $3.62 with an exchange of 750 stock units. Fosrich advanced 33 cents to $4.93 with 16,765 shares changing hands, GWest Corporation fell 10 cents to 81 cents with 37,500 units traded, iCreate dropped 15 cents to 65 cents with 219,224 stocks passing through the market. Iron Rock Insurance shed 20 cents to $3.60 trading 60 stock units, Jamaican Teas rose 5 cents to $3.14 with an exchange of 1,146,572 shares, Jetcon Corporation gained 6 cents to 79 cents with 6,935 units changing hands. Knutsford Express fell 10 cents to $6.60 with 299 stocks traded, Lasco Distributors increased by 10 cents to $3.70 with 22,964 stock units passing through the market, Lasco Financial rose 11 cents to $2.65 trading 10,120 shares. Lasco Manufacturing advanced 34 cents to $4.60 with an exchange of 13,486 units, Lumber Depot rose 5 cents to $2.70 with 647,253 stocks changing hands, Mailpac Group increased by 14 cents to end at $3.49 with 782,591 stock units traded. Main Event climbed 32 cents to $3.47 with 900 shares passing through the market, Paramount Trading dropped 18 cents to $1.32 with a transfer of 449 stocks, SSL Venture slipped 6 cents to 58 cents with an exchange of 128,962 units and tTech rose 10 cents to $4.40 trading 90,000 units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.