The Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange indices all fell on Wednesday with National Enterprises leading the declines with a fall of 44 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ low of $8 while heavily weighted First Caribbean International Bank shed 8 cents, to weigh heavily on the market.
Market activities ended with 21 securities trading versus 19 on Wednesday, with 9 advancing, 9 declining and 3 remaining unchanged. The market closed with two stocks ending at 52 weeks’ low as 326,195 units valued at $6,427,017 traded, compared to 119,782 units valued at $2,475,785 changing hands on Wednesday.
The Composite Index dropped 5.68 points to 1,231.48. The All T&T Index declined 25.10 points to 1,689.91, while the Cross Listed Index fell 0.43 points to close at 105.62.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 4 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Angostura Holdings closed with a gain of 5 cents at $15.75, with 28,543 stock units changing hands, Ansa Mcal gained 1 cent and ended at $55.01, with 800 units trading, Ansa Merchant finished trading with a gain of 1 cent at $38.26, after exchanging 500 shares, First Citizens closed with an increase of 10 cents and completed trading at $32.75, after exchanging 1,698 stock units, Grace Kennedy closed with a rise of 1 cent to $2.82, with 3,000 stock units changing hands. JMMB Group finished 7 cents higher and settled at $1.84, after exchanging 80,000 shares, LJ Williams B share gained 5 cents and completed trading at $0.75, after exchanging 30,000 stock units, Prestige Holdings added 1 cent and ended at $7.31, with 1,000 units changing hands and Trinidad Cement gained 1 cent and settled at $2.71, after exchanging 3,000 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| Clico Investments shed 11 cents and concluded trading at $20.04, with 20,370 stock units changing hands, First Caribbean International Bank lost 10 cents and ended at a 52 weeks’ low of $8.05, exchanging 1,135 units, Guardian Holdings ended trading 2 cents lower at $16.98, with 1,200 units, Massy Holdings concluded trading with a loss of 3 cents and settled at $46.80, after exchanging 1,621 shares, National Enterprises traded with a loss of 44 cents and ended at $8, with 1,000 stock units changing hands, One Caribbean Media closed with a loss of 1 cent and settled at $11.99, trading 2,843 shares, Sagicor Financial closed with a loss of 9 cents and ended at $7.30, with 26,820 stock units changing hands, Scotiabank shed 11 cents and ended at $64.39, trading 70,468 units and Trinidad & Tobago NGL lost 8 cents and completed trading at $29.41, after exchanging 2,640 shares.
Stocks trading with no price change| Guardian Media settled at $15, after exchanging 957 shares, National Flour ended at $1.68, with 6,500 units and NCB Financial Group completed trading at $6.50, after exchanging 42,100 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
TTSE falls again on Thursday
Republic in big fall takes TTSE with it
Republic Financial dropped $7.24 and the large capitalized stock, First Caribbean International Bank shed 15 cents along with 7 other companies declined to put a big dent into the market indices on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
Market activities ended with 19 securities trading versus 16 on Tuesday, 3 advancing, 9 declining and 7 remaining unchanged. The market closed with one stock trading at 52 weeks’ high and two at 52 weeks’ low as 119,782 units valued at $2,475,785 traded, compared to 135,571 units valued at $824,024 changing hands on Tuesday.
The Composite Index dropped 14.27 points to 1,237.16. The All T&T Index declined 25.10 points to 1,689.91, while the Cross Listed Index fell 0.43 points to close at 105.62.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 3 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Agostini’s rose 20 cents and completed trading at $23.40, after exchanging 285 shares, Angostura Holdings closed with an increase of 10 cents and settled at $15.70, with 800 stock units changing hands and West Indian Tobacco ended trading of 1,070 units after rising 50 cents to $95.
Stocks closing with losses|Ansa Mcal shares fell 50 cents and concluded trading of 78 units at $55, Clico Investments closed with a loss of 5 cents and settled at $20.15, with 1,077 stock units changing hands, First Caribbean International Bank shed 15 cents and concluded market activity at $8.15, with 15,901 units trading, First Citizens lost 35 cents and ended at $32.65, after exchanging 5,617 shares, Grace Kennedy ended trading of 1,000 stock units having fallen 19 cents to settled at $2.81, JMMB Group concluded trading with a loss of 3 cents at $1.77, after exchanging 5,000 shares, Republic Financial Holdings dropped $7.24 and completed trading at $103.76, after exchanging 4,921 shares, Trinidad & Tobago NGL shares fell 2 cents and ended at $29.49, in exchanging 6,225 shares and Unilever Caribbean closed with a loss of 50 cents and settled at a multi-year low of $23, with 1,738 stock units changing hands.
Stocks trading with no price change| Guardian Holdings concluded trading 10,877 units at $17, Massy Holdings completed trading at $46.83, after exchanging 940 shares, National Flour ended at $1.68, with 4,500 units trading, NCB Financial Group ended at $6.50, after exchanging 46,733 shares, Prestige Holdings concluded trading of 2,000 units at $7.30, Sagicor Financial settled at $7.39, with 10 stock units changing hands and Scotiabank ended at $64.50, trading 11,010 units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Early Xmas present for Jamaicans
The price of West Texas Crude oil is now down to 55.73 per barrel for the first time in almost a year. The price was at US$55.33 at the start of November last year and started to climb sharply after December to hit US$71 by mid-May this year and just over US$76.40 at the beginning of October before it started a steep decent to today’s level. The technical chart suggest that it could go lower still with excess supplies on the world market and slowing demand.
The cut in price has several implications for Jamaica that is a big importer of the product. It could mean savings in Foreign exchange around US$40 million per month at the current price. It will ease consumers cost as prices of petrol and electricity fall, but government will collect less taxes from petrol and GCT from JPS bills.
The fall also has implications for Bank of Jamaica with their inflation targeting, pitched extremely high originally at more than 4 percent and revised recently down to 3.5 percent on the low end for the fiscal year to March 2019. Those targets seem off as the fall in the price of oil coupled with the sharp revaluation of the local dollar is set to push the country through another round of deflation once more.
Sterling’s stock split effective November 27
The record date of the recently approved 5 for 1 stock split for Sterling Investments will be November 27, the company announced.
The split aimed at increasing the liquidity of the stock was approved by shareholders at an Extraordinary General Meeting on October 8.
Sterling’s most recent results to September, showed that the company’s fundamentals to be healthy, with gross revenues for the period hitting $134 million for the nine months to September 2018, an increase of 44 percent over revenues of $93 million in the similar period in 2017. Profit after tax grew 53 percent to $90 million for the nine months ended September, compared to $59 million in 2017.
For the September quarter, revenues rose to $56 million from $31 million in 2017, resulting in profit after tax for the quarter of $38.7 million versus $16 million in 2017. The 2018 result compares well with the full year results for 2017 when profit of just $52 million was realized from $92 million in revenues.
Sterling garnered $74 million in foreign exchange gains for the nine months period compared to just $11 million for the similar period in 2017 and $35 million versus $9 million in the quarter. Some of that seems set to be reversed in the final quarter of the year as the Jamaican dollar has since revalued and is unlikely to be reversed before year end.
The company reported that details of the upcoming rights issue will be announced shortly. IC Insider.com gathers that the plan was originally, for the split to have followed the rights issue, but that seems to have changed with the announcement of the date for the split.
Shareholders’ equity increased from $895 million at September 2017 to $922 million at September 2018 while total assets under management amounted to $1.27 billion.
The stock last traded at $20.50 on the Jamaica Stock Exchange up from from $14.50 at the time the proposed split was announced in mid September.
Republic & Witco climb again on TTSE
Republic Financial climbed $1 to a 52 weeks’ high of $111 and West Indian Tobacco rose 30 cents on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Tuesday and remained poised for more gains.
West Indian Tobacco closed higher slightly higher but closed with the bid at $94.20 to buy 3,950 shares with none on offer at the close, as investors respond to improved results and a pending stock split.
Market activities ended with 16 securities trading versus 12 on Monday, 8 advancing, 5 declining and 3 remaining unchanged. The market closed with one stock trading at 52 weeks’ high and two at 52 weeks’ low as 135,571 units valued at 824,024 traded, compared to 449,177 units valued at 8,056,501 changing hands on Monday.
The Composite Index climbed 3.03 points to 1,251.43. The All T&T Index rose 4.81 points to 1,715.01, while the Cross Listed Index rose 0.16 points to close at 106.05.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading closed with 3 stocks ending with higher bids than the last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Clico Investments ended trading with a rise of 20 cents to close at $20.20, with 3,205 stock units changing hands, First Citizens finished 26 cents higher and completed trading at $33, after exchanging 4,061 shares, JMMB Group concluded trading of 105,700 shares and gained 8 cents to settle at $1.80, National Flour added 6 cents and ended at $1.68, with 500 units trading, Republic Financial Holdings gained $1 in settling at $111, after exchanging just 10 shares. Trinidad & Tobago NGL increased 1 cent and completed trading at $29.51, after exchanging 8,284 shares, Trinidad Cement rose 5 cents and settled at $2.70, exchanging 4,100 shares and West Indian Tobacco closed with a gain of 30 cents and ended at $94.50 trading 245 units.
Stocks closing with losses|Agostini’s lost 20 cents and settled at $23.20, after exchanging 421 shares, Angostura Holdings ended trading 10 cents lower at $15.60, with 64 stock units changing hands, Massy Holdings concluded trading of 1,269 shares with a loss of 17 cents to close at $46.83, Prestige Holdings traded with a loss of 20 cents and ended at a 52 weeks’ low of $7.30, with 1,000 units and Sagicor Financial closed with a loss of 1 cent and ended at a 52 weeks’ low of $7.39, with 2,050 stock units changing hands.
Stocks trading with no price change| National Enterprises closed at $8.44, with 100 stock units changing hands, NCB Financial Group completed trading at $6.50, after exchanging 3,949 shares and Scotiabank ended at $64.50, as just 613 units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.