The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed trading with 27 securities changing hands resulting in an exchange of 1,399,513 units valued at $6,305,138.
At the close of market activities on Monday 22 securities leading to 806,611 units valued at $3,430,741 being exchanged. Trading ended with the prices of 9 securities advancing, 10 declining while 7 remained unchanged. At the close, the Junior Market Index declined 4.43 points to 2,928.25.
Market activity ended with an average of 51,834 units for an average of $233,524 in contrast to 36,664 units for an average of $155,943 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 94,470 units with an average value of $355,656 and previously 104,394 units with an average value of $384,083. April closed with an average of 121,622 units at $506,803, for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, AMG Packaging ended at $2, with 18,131 stock units, CAC 2000 finished with a loss of 99 cents at $8.01, with 300 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading 4 cents higher at $4.65, with 6,000 shares, Caribbean Flavours traded $1 higher at $12, with 10,600 stock units, Caribbean Producers finished trading at $5.29, with 4,750 units. Consolidated Bakeries closed at $1.85, with 4,506 shares, Derrimon Trading concluded trading with a loss of 35 cents at $10.15, with 5,800 shares, Dolphin Cove finished at $17, with 2,000 stock units, Elite Diagnostic settled at $3.25, with 167,349 units. Express Catering traded 14 cents higher at $5.65, with 304,276 shares, FosRich Group finished trading with a loss of 14 cents at $2.35, with 158,014 shares, General Accident closed at $3.15, with 5,029 stock units, 
GWest Corporation ended with a loss of 5 cents at an all-time closing low of $2.30, with 62,876 units. Honey Bun concluded trading with a loss of 20 cents at $4.60, with 33,064 shares, Iron Rock finished with a loss of 50 cents at $3, with 5,000 shares, Jamaican Teas ended trading 55 cents higher at $5, with 154,883 stock units, Jetcon Corporation traded at $4, with 15,158 units. KLE Group closed with a loss of 25 cents at $2.25, with 90,509 shares, Knutsford Express ended with a loss of 90 cents at $13, with 4,000 shares, Lasco Distributors concluded trading 2 cents higher at $4.30, with 5,249 stock units, Lasco Financial finished with a loss of 3 cents at $5.52, with 211,952 units. Lasco Manufacturing settled 21 cents higher at $3.95, with 5,324 shares, Main Event ended trading with a loss of 19 cents at $6.81, with 12,217 shares, Paramount Trading finished trading 1 cent higher at $2.71, with 100 stock units, Stationery and Office closed 10 cents higher at a all-time high of $6.30, with 95,993 units and tTech concluded trading 28 cents higher at $6, with 14,981 shares. In the junior market preference segment, Eppley 8.75% settled at $6, with 1,452 shares, changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
7 stocks rose on TTSE – Tuesday
First Citizens closed at a 52 weeks’ high on Tuesday
Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday with trading in 12 securities against 11 on Monday, with 7 advancing, 1 declining and 4 remaining unchanged.
The market ended with the total volume traded being 142,483 shares with a value of $2,071,522, compared to 199,710 shares with a value of $3,368,323.
At close of the market the, Composite Index At close of the market the Composite Index increased 3.44 points on Tuesday to 1,246.41, the All T&T Index gained 5.25 points to 1,716.70, while the Cross Listed Index rose 0.21 points to close at 104.46.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows the market continuing to be weak as it closed with 3 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 8 with lower offers, an indication of the continuation of a weak market currently.
Gains| Clico Investments closed with a gain of 3 cents and completed trading at $20.20, with 30,000 units, First Citizens gained 62 cents and concluded at a 52 weeks’ high of $35, after exchanging 3,546 shares, LJ Williams B Share finished trading with a gain of 1 cent and concluded at $0.72, after exchanging 10,000 shares, National Flour closed with an increase of 10 cents and settled at $1.85, with 46,392 shares changing hands, Trinidad Cement ended trading with a rise of 33 cents and settled at $2.99, exchanging 2,308 shares, Unilever Caribbean finished 50 cents higher and concluded trading at $34, with 2,050 shares and West Indian Tobacco gained 1 cent and ended at $88.51, with 404 stock units changing hands.
Losses| Trinidad & Tobago NGL ended trading 1 cent lower to close at $29, in exchanging 36,108 shares.
Firm Traded| Grace Kennedy completed trading at $3.10, with 9,587 units, JMMB Group ended at $1.80, with 1,000 stock units changing hands, Massy Holdings ended at $47.25, with 588 stock units changing hands and Scotiabank settled at $63.23, after exchanging 500 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Junior Market drops – Monday
GWest dropped to an all-time low of Monday of $2.35.
The Junior Market Index declined 35.85 points to close at 2,932.68 in trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday with 22 securities changing hands, compared to 26 on Friday.
At the close of market activities 806,611 units valued at $3,430,741 were exchanged, compared to 1,252,974 units valued at $5,418,449, on Friday. Trading ended with the prices of 6 securities advancing, 12 declining while 4 remained unchanged.
Market activity ended with an average of 36,664 units for an average of $155,943 in contrast to 48,191 units for an average of $208,402 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 104,394 units with an average value of $384,083 and previously 120,246 units with an average value of $437,478. April closed with an average of 121,622 units at $506,803, for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
At the close of the market AMG Packaging ended 6 cents higher at $2, with 1,500 stock units trading, 
Blue Power concluded trading at $30, with 100 units, Cargo Handlers settled with a loss of 15 cents at $9.85, with 6,247 shares, Caribbean Producers finished trading with a loss of 21 cents at $5.29, with 1,600 units changing hands, Consolidated Bakeries closed with a loss of 20 cents at $1.85, with 123,000 shares. Elite Diagnostic settled at $3.25, with 76,190 units, Eppley ended trading 2 cents higher at $9.22, with 55,000 shares, Express Catering traded 1 cent higher at $5.51, with 3,523 shares, FosRich Group finished trading with a loss of 1 cent at $2.49, with 3,349 shares. General Accident closed with a loss of 5 cents at $3.15, trading 5,637 stock units, GWest Corporation ended with a loss of 5 cents at a 52 weeks’ low of $2.35, while exchanging 22,537 units, Honey Bun concluded trading at $4.80, with 1,006 shares,
Jamaican Teas ended trading with a loss of 55 cents at $4.45, with 100,409 stock units. Jetcon Corporation traded with a loss of 9 cents at $4, with 173,947 units, after trading at a 52 weeks’ low of $3.50, KLE Group closed 5 cents higher at $2.50, with 6,204 shares, Lasco Distributors concluded trading with a loss of 2 cents at $4.28, with 98,131 stock units, Lasco Financial finished at $5.55, with 78,200 units. Lasco Manufacturing settled with a loss of 11 cents at $3.74, with 29,470 shares, Main Event ended trading 21 cents higher at $7, with 11,500 shares, Paramount Trading finished trading with a loss of 30 cents at $2.70, with 2,000 stock units, Stationery and Office closed 15 cents higher at $6.20, with 6,091 units and tTech concluded trading with a loss of 3 cents at $5.72, with 970 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Trading falls on TTSE – Monday
Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange Head Quarters
Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange dipped sharply on Monday, from the heightened level on Friday, leading to continued decline in the market indices.
The market ended with 11 securities changing hands similar to the number on Thursday, leading to 2 securities advancing, 2 declining and 7 remaining unchanged. Total volume traded was 199,710 shares with a value of $3,368,323, compared to 1,503,086 shares on Friday valued at $30,992,486.
At close of the market the, Composite Index lost 0.17 points on Monday to end at 1,242.97, the All T&T Index fell 0.33 points to 1,711.45, while the Cross Listed Index remained unchanged points to close at 104.25.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows the market continuing to be weak as it closed with 6 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 7 with lower offers, an indication of the continuation of a weak market currently.
Gains| First Citizens increased 13 cents to conclude trading at $34.38, after exchanging 1,600 shares and Trinidad Cement rose 1 cent and settled at $2.66, after exchanging 591 shares..
Losses| Massy Holdings shares fell 15 cents and ended at $47.25, with 474 stock units changing hands and National Flour closed with a loss of 5 cents and settled at $1.75, after exchanging 6,003 shares.
Firm Traded| Clico Investments completed trading at $20.17, with 92,794 units, First Caribbean International Bank settled at $8.90, after exchanging 19,900 shares, NCB Financial Group concluded market activity at $5.75, in exchanging 317 shares, Sagicor Financial completed trading at $7.75, with 58,093 units, Scotiabank settled at $63.23, with an exchange of 3,033 shares, Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed trading at $29.01, with 15,305 units and West Indian Tobacco ended at $88.50, with 1,600 stock units changing hand.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Sagicor Group out of TOP 10 stocks
Sagicor Group profit climbed just 7% for 2017.
Sagicor Group out of TOP 10 stocks this past week as the price jumped to $42 and is replaced by Salada Foods and are the only two major change to the TOP 10 listings this week.
Other changes of note were the rise in price of Berger Paints to $22 from $19 at the end of the previous week, Caribbean Cement move to $38.60 from $36.50 and Barita Investments moving to $10.49, more importantly, selling by investors dried up towards the end of the week. Most importantly, the main market continues to hit new record highs during the week and ending the week at a record high level with signs of more gains during the coming week as more company results are released this week and the effect of falling interest rates and a stable Jamaican dollar playing big roles in increasing interest in the market.
At the close of Friday, the average PE ratio for Junior Market Top stocks ended at 6 compared to an average PE for the overall main market of 10 based on 2018 estimated earnings. The main market PE is 7.3 for the top stocks, compared to a market average of 13.
IC Insider.com’s TOP 10 stocks now trade at an average discount of 40 percent to the average for the Junior Market Top stocks but it’s a third of what the average PE for the year is likely to be of 20 times earnings and main market stocks traded at a discount of 44 percent to the market.
The Stocks to Watch this week are Stationery and Office Supplies that should release first quarter results early this week with profits that could double over the 2017 first quarter. It should be interesting to see how investors treat with the lack of supplies for Barita and Berger while Palace could jump in price with continued success of movies now being shown. NCB Financial could be another interesting stock to watch.
Record close for JSE main market – Friday
Investors pushed the Jamaica Stock Exchange the market up strongly to reach the highest levels ever on Friday with the price of 11 stocks rising, 5 falling and 11 trading firm.
Friday’s record move is fourth day for the week that the main market closed at new record highs.
At the close, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index jumped 3,775.73 points to end at 332,501.11 and the JSE Index climbed 3,440.11 points to a record close of 302,946.08. Only Wisynco Group traded more than 1 million shares, ending with 1,188,978 units to be followed by JMMB Group 7.5% preference share with 841,700 stock units.
At the end of market activities, 27 securities traded, compared to 24 on Thursday, in the main and US dollar markets. Caribbean Cement rose $1 to close at $38.60, JMMB Group fell 99 cents to $26.01, NCB Financial ended with a rise of $1.20 to $99.95, and Sagicor Group jumped $4 to $42.
Trading activity resulted in 4,887,322 units valued at $81,394,524 changing hands, compared 39,156,142 units valued at $3,462,726,542 trading on Thursday.
Trading resulted in an average of 187,974 units valued at an average of $3,130,559 for each security traded. In contrast to 1,702,441 units for an average of $150,553,328 on Thursday. The average for the month to date is 613,556 shares with a value of $37,585,846 and previously 765,133 shares with a value of $49,857,592. In contrast, April closed with an average of 708,206 shares with a value of $6,395,518 for each security traded.
In the US dollar market, Proven Investments traded with 5,860 shares at 23 US cents and the market index ended at unchanged at 177.12.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 closing with a lower offers.
For more details of market activities see – JSE trading back to norm on Friday.
Modest gains for Junior Market – Friday
Blue Power in big drop to close at $30.
Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Friday with 26 securities changing hands, compared to 25 on Thursday.
At the close of market activities 1,252,974 units valued at $5,418,449 were exchanged, compared to 3,622,077 units valued at $8,835,894, on Thursday. Trading ended with the prices of 8 securities advancing, 7 declining and 11 remained unchanged and the Junior Market Index advanced by 9.51 points to close at 2,968.53.
Market activity ended with an average of 48,191 units for an average of $208,402 in contrast to 144,883 units for an average of $353,436 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 120,246 units with an average value of $437,478 and previously 147,796 units with an average value of $529,433. April closed with an average of 121,622 units at $506,803, for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 3 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, Blue Power concluded trading with a drop of $6.85 cents to a 52 weeks’ low of $30, with 1,859 units, Cargo Handlers settled at $10, with 2,217 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading at $4.61, with 2,200 shares, Caribbean Producers finished trading 20 cents higher at $5.50, with 124,930 units, Dolphin Cove finished at $17, with 2,755 stock units. Elite Diagnostic settled at $3.25, with 53,409 units, Eppley ended trading with a loss of 30 cents at $9.20, with 73,571 shares, Express Catering traded with a loss of 50 cents at $5.50, with 37,300 shares, FosRich Group finished trading 5 cents higher at $2.50, with 53,467 shares. General Accident closed 20 cents higher at $3.20, with 500,363 stock units, GWest Corporation ended at $2.40, with 28,513 units, Honey Bun concluded trading 20 cents higher at $4.80, with 10,000 shares, ISP Finance settled 80 cents higher at $18, with 1,000 shares. Jamaican Teas ended trading at $5, with 39,880 stock units, Jetcon Corporation traded with a loss of 4 cents at $4.09, with 14,500 units, 
Key Insurance finished trading at $3.90, with 10,000 shares, Knutsford Express ended 43 cents higher at $13.90, with 5,290 shares. Lasco Distributors concluded trading 10 cents higher at $4.30, with 87,570 stock units, Lasco Financial finished at $5.55, with 24,986 units, Lasco Manufacturing settled 10 cents higher at $3.85, with 9,140 shares, Main Event ended trading with a loss of 46 cents at $6.79, with 8,560 shares. Paramount Trading finished trading with a loss of 10 cents at $3, with 70,851 stock units, Stationery and Office closed with a loss of 15 cents at $6.05, with 10,346 units and tTech concluded trading at $5.75, with 29,327 shares. In the junior market preference segment, Derrimon Trading 9% ended at $2, with 2,390 stock units, Eppley 8.75% concluded trading at $6, with 48,550 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Clico Investments dominates TTSE
Trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Friday, surged in monetary terms with Clico Investments trading 96 percent of the day’s volume traded and 84 percent of the value.
The market ended with 11 securities changing hands against 13 on Thursday as the volume traded fell sharply from Thursday’s level.
At the market close, 5 securities advanced, 2 declined and 4 remained unchanged with 170,404 shares with a value of $30,992,486 trading compared to 170,404 shares with a value of $1,308,158 on Thursday.
At close of the market the, Composite Index gained 1.39 points on Friday to 1,243.14, the All T&T Index rose 2.42 points to 1,711.78, while the Cross Listed Index inched 0.04 points to close at 104.25.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows the market continuing to be weak as it closed with 3 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 6 with lower offers, an indication of the continuation of a weak market currently.
Gains| Clico Investments concluded trading with a rise of 17 cents to settle at $20.17, with 1,445,462 units with a value of $29,114,196, First Citizens added 15 cents and ended at a 52 weeks’ high of $34.25, after exchanging 170 shares, Prestige Holdings increased 29 cents and concluded trading at $10.30, after exchanging 92 shares, Republic Financial Holdings rose 5 cents to $101.65, with 2,397 stock units changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed with a gain of 1 cent and settled at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $29.01, with 49,961 units changing hands.
Losses| Sagicor Financial shares fell 5 cents and settled at $7.75, with 1,303 units and Scotiabank share fell 1 cent and concluded trading at $63.23, after exchanging 1,595 shares.
Firm Traded| Ansa Merchant ended at $40, after exchanging 1,282 shares, Guardian Holdings concluded trading at $15.30, after exchanging 250 shares, Massy Holdings completed trading at $47.40, with 120 stock units changing hands and National Enterprises settled at $9.65, with 454 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
JSE trading back to norm on Friday
The Jamaica Stock Exchange main market closed at a record on Friday as the market continues to gradually grind its way forward.
Trading activity declined in main market on Friday, but the market gained much ground to land at a new record close, as 4,887,322 units valued at $81,394,524 traded, compared with 39,156,142 units valued at $3,462,726,542 on Thursday.
The main market closed with 26 securities changing hands, 11 securities rose, 5 declined and 10 traded firm, as the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index surged 3,775.73 points to end at a record high of 332,501.11 and the JSE Index jumped 3,440.11 points to a record close of 302,946.08.
In market activity, Barita Investments closed at $10.49, with 429 shares, Carreras concluded trading at $10.60, with a loss of 12 cents trading 581,969 units, Caribbean Cement jumped $1 and finished at $38.60, with 100,100 shares, Grace Kennedy ended trading at $49, with 40,820 shares, Jamaica Broilers traded at $20.49, with 1,570 stock units. Jamaica Stock Exchange last 5 cents and closed at $6.80, with 22,500 shares, JMMB Group fell 99 cent and ended at $26.01, with 124,624 shares, Kingston Properties concluded trading at $6.65, with 12,801 shares, Kingston Wharves gained 85 cents to finish at $48.90, with 7,735 stock units. Mayberry Investments lost 13 cents in settling at $6, with 23,702 units traded, NCB Financial Group climbed $1 and ended trading at $99.95, with 189,977 shares, 1834 Investments traded at $1.16, with 440,607 shares, PanJam Investment rose 55 cents and closed at $45, with 17,145 stock units. Portland JSX ended at $10, with 57,715 units, Radio Jamaica finished at $1.10, after rising 2 cents with 142,000 shares, Sagicor Group jumped $4 and settled at $42, with 53,733 shares and Sagicor Real Estate Fund gained 50 cents to close at $15, with 12,628 shares, Scotia Group added 25 cents to trade at $50, with 506,317 units changing hands. 
Seprod finished trading at $35, with 3,100 shares, Sterling Investments closed at $13, with 2,025 shares trded, Supreme Ventures rose 35 cents nd ended at $12.20, with 14,890 shares, Victoria Mutual Investments concluded trading at $4.25,fter declining 5 cents with 497,877 stock units trading and Wisynco Group rose 13 cents and finished at $10.68, with 1,188,978 units. In the main market preference segment, Jamaica Money Market 7.5% traded unchanged at $2, with 1,280 stock units, JMMB Group 7.25% concluded trading at $1.50, with 1,100 shares, JMMB Group 7.5% finished at $1, with 841,700 stock units, changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “Record close for JSE main market – Friday.”
Record breather for JSE main market – Thursday
NCB had 35 million shares of its shares trading on Thursday.
Trading surged on the Jamaica Stock Exchange main market on Thursday as NCB Financial dominated trading with 35 million shares but the market ended down at the close as it took a break from three days of record close.
The All Jamaican Composite Index lost 923.48 points to end at 328,725.38 and the JSE Index declined 841.39 points to a record close of 299,505.97.
At the close, 24 securities traded, compared to 23 on Wednesday and ended with the prices of 9 stocks rising, 9 falling and 7 trading firm, in the main and US dollar markets.
At the close of trading, Berger Paints closed at $22 with a rise of $2 and Kingston Wharves lost $1.75 to $48.05. All other price changes were at 50 cents and below.
NCB Financial Group dominated trading on Tuesday on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange with an exchange of 35,067,960 units accounting for 89.56 percent of the volume traded. Wisynco Group with 1,606,426 units was the next big trade followed by Ciboney with 722,522 units as trading activity resulted in 39,156,142 units valued at $3,462,726,542 compared 14,312,143 units valued at $130,374,672 trading on Wednesday.
Trading resulted in an average of 1,702,441 units valued at over $150,553,328, in contrast to 650,552 shares valued at $5,926,121 on Wednesday. The average for the month to date is 765,133 shares with a value of $49,857,592 and previously 333,972 shares with a value of $3,537,553. In contrast, April closed with an average of 708,206 shares with a value of $6,395,518 for each security traded.
In the US dollar market, Proven Investments traded with 330 shares at 23 US cents and the market index ended at unchanged at 177.12.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 closing with a lower offers.
For more details of market activities see – NCB dominates JSE trading on Tuesday.
