Guardian jumps on NCB takeover news

December 19, 2018 by

Guardian Holdings jumps $1.05 as NCB Financial revices offer to buy up 62%,

Guardian Holdings (GHL) jumped $1.05 to $18 in market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Wednesday following NCB financial announcement that it will shortly be making a revised offer to acquire up 62 percent ownership in GHL.
Trading ended with 14 securities changing hands against 16 on Tuesday, and finished with 4 advancing, 2 declining and 8 remaining unchanged.
At close of the market, the Composite Index added 9.24 points to 1,303.66, the All T&T Index rose 1.39 points to 1,703.65, while the Cross Listed Index gained 2.37 points to close at 122.11. Trading ended with 271,435 units valued at $6,434,321 compared to 364,521 units valued at $11,132,908 on Tuesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 3 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 with a lower offer.
Stocks closing with gains| Guardian Holdings rose $1.05 and ended at $18, with 26,256 units traded, JMMB Group concluded trading with a rise of 1 cent at $1.77, after exchanging 20,000 shares, NCB Financial Group added 35 cents and completed trading at $8.50, after exchanging 6,553 shares and Republic Financial Holdings increased 25 cents and settled at $107.25, after exchanging 14,266 shares.
Stocks closing with Losses| Scotiabank fell 16 cents and ended at $64.25, with 13,106 units changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed with a loss of 15 cents at $29.10, after exchanging 50,000 shares.
Stocks closing firm|  Ansa Merchant completed trading at $38.26, after exchanging 4,586 shares, Clico Investments concluded at $20.20, with 75,029 stock units changing hands, First Citizens completed trading at $34, after exchanging 2,077 shares, National Enterprises closed at $8, with 6,982 stock units changing hands, National Flour ended at $1.65, while trading 32,866 units, One Caribbean Media settled at $10.50, after exchanging 8,099 shares, Prestige Holdings ended at $7.50, with and exchange of 11,500 units and West Indian Tobacco ended at $95.40, with 115 units changing hands.

Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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NCB to go for 62% of Guardian

December 19, 2018 by

NCB Financial Group is to go after 62% of Guardian Holdings.

NCB Financial is to make a revised offer to acquire 62 percent of the Trinidad based Guardian Holdings (GHL), at a revised price of US$2.79, the group said today, in a release.
This is in line with the original offer made in 2017 but at higher price and above the 51.85 percent at US$2.65 they agreed to, after being investigated by the Trinidad Exchange Commission. The revised offer which will be published soon, with the exact timing is yet to be determined. The acquisition is to be partially funded by US$45 million to be provided by way of vendors’ loan from selected shareholders.
The acquisition is set to make a major impact on the NCB Group and ultimately the stock price. For one GHL is being bought for just less than 10 times earnings while NCB is selling at 15 times 2018 earnings as such the impact on the price of NCB shares will be seen in 2019 as GHL profit will be

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valued more to NCB shareholders. Most importantly, majority ownership will permit it to reshape the group by merging the separate insurance companies and securities operations into one and allow it to rationalize various back office operations within the group into one unit and thus cut considerable cost out of the enlarge group.
NCB already owns 29.99 percent of Guardian. The GHL shares last traded in Trinidad at TT$16.95 or approximately US$2.53. NCB closed trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange at $148.

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JSE stocks mostly fall on Tuesday

December 18, 2018 by

PanJam traded at a record high of $77.

The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, lost more grounds at the close trading on Tuesday with the All Jamaican Composite Index falling 1,078.94 points to 407,856.64 and the JSE Index declining by 983.04 points to end at 371,603.52.
Trading ended with 7,677,766 units valued at $240,095,42, compared with 3,443,415 units valued at $195,803,075 on Monday. A total of 32 securities changed hands in the main and US dollar markets, with prices of 12 rising, 16 declining and 4 remaining unchanged compared to 36 securities trading on Monday. At the end of trading, Barita Investments and PanJam Investment ended at record closing highs.
At the close, an average of 274,206 units valued at over $8,574,837 traded, in contrast to 114,781 units valued at over $6,526,769 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 134,585 units with a value of $5,187,011, compared to 122,630 units with a value of $4,870,814, previously. November closed, with an average of 405,528 valued at $7,755,942, for each security traded.
Carreras led trading for the second consecutive day with 2,160,966 units in accounting for 28.2 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Mayberry Equities with 1,138,231units or 14.8 percent of the overall volume and Scotia Group with 952,302 units and 12.4 percent of the day’s volume.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 closing with lower offers.
In main market activity, Barita Investments climbed $1.01 and ended at an all-time closing high of $33.50, with an exchange of 7,764 shares, Berger Paints dropped $4.20 to ended at $19 with 1,770 stock units changing hands, Caribbean Cement dived $4.02 to close at $38.50, with 50,000 shares traded, Grace Kennedy shed $2.50 and ended trading at $59.50, with 112,478 shares. Jamaica Producers jumped $4.35 finished trading 14,340 units at $26.85, JMMB Group lost 45 cents in trading 110,925 shares to close at $32.05. Kingston Wharves finished at $77, after jumping $4 in trading 256,450 stock units, Mayberry Investments finished with a loss of 80 cents at $9.10, with 16,891 stock units changing hands. Mayberry Equities rose 49 cents at $10, with 1,138,231 stock units changing hands. PanJam Investment rose $1 to close at a record high of $75, with an exchange of 7,023 stock units, Sagicor Group  lost 99 cents and finished at $40, with 545,715 shares trading, Sagicor Real Estate Fund  lost 50 cents to end at $10 in exchanging 302,950 units, Scotia Group  dropped $3.98 and ended trading 952,302 stock units at $52.02 and Seprod  traded 541,759 units and rose $1.49 to end at $31. In the preference sector Productivity Business Solution  dropped $2.99 and ended trading of 115,000 shares to close at $105.01.
Trading in the US dollar market amounted to 90,900 units valued at over $50,904 with Proven Investments ended trading of 2,530 shares with a rise of 3 cents to end at 23 US cents Sygnus Credit Investments traded 15,643 stock units and lost 2 cents and settled at 9 US cents. In the preference sector JMMB Group 5.75% concluded trading of 1,028 shares with a fall of 6 cents and completed trading at US$2 and JMMB Group 6% fell 2 cents to completed t trading at $1.05 with 2,035 stock units. The JSE USD Equities Index rose 5.18 points to close at 171.73.

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Sharp jump for Junior Market

December 18, 2018 by

The Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed trading on Tuesday with the Market Index jumping 43,88 points to close at 3,157.54 as the prices of 8 securities rising, 4 falling and 10 remaining unchanged
The market closed with 22 securities changing hands, resulting in an exchange of 1,541,445 units valued at $5,341,261 compared to 1,343,967 units valued at $5,105,838 on Monday from trading in 25 stocks.
Trading ended with an average of 70,066 units for an average of $242,785 in contrast to 53,759 units for an average of $204,233 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 193,704 units at a value of $1,076,071, versus 204,672 units at a value of $1,149,992, previously. November, ended with an average of 190,475 units valued at $653,358 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 9 stocks ended with higher bids than their last selling price and 3 with lower offers.
At the close of the day’s activity, Access Financial closed with a loss of 3 cents at $47.50, trading 207 shares, Cargo Handlers settled at $15, with an exchange of 3,000 shares, Caribbean Cream ended trading 105,800 shares and rose 60 cents higher to $6, Caribbean Producers finished trading at $5.30, with 26,157 units changing hands, Consolidated Bakeries closed with a loss of 10 cents at $1.90, with trading in 500 shares. Derrimon Trading ended at $2.55, with an exchange of 26,666 shares, Elite Diagnostic closed 2 cents higher at $2.89, with 19,246 stock units changing hands, Eppley settled at $9, with trading in 2,460 units, Everything Fresh ended trading of 431,780 shares to close at $1.30, Express Catering closed trading of 37,000 shares and rose 50 cents to $8. FosRich Group traded 9 cents higher to $3.94, with 68,815 shares trading, Honey Bun ended at $3.50, with 3,000 units changing hands, Indies Pharma traded 112,128 shares to close at $3.20,  Jetcon Corporation  ended trading with 32,100 stock units and rose 1 cent higher to $3.01,  Knutsford Express  closed at $11.50, with an exchange of 13,167 shares. Lasco Distributor  ended 5 cents higher at $3.80, trading 553,428 shares, Lasco Financial  concluded trading of 10,225 stock units and rose 15 cents to $4.15,  Lasco Manufacturing  finished 45 cents higher at $3.50, after trading 41,640 units, Medical Disposables  ended trading of 2,457 shares, rising 30 cents higher to $6.80. Paramount Trading closed with a loss of 7 cents at $2.45, with 20,669 shares changing hands, SSL Venture Capital traded 1,000 shares and ended at $2 and Stationery and Office finished trading of 30,000 stock units with a loss of 40 cents to close at $8.10.

Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

 

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5 TTSE stocks rose 3 fell – Tuesday

December 18, 2018 by

Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday with trading in 16 securities against 17 on Monday, with 5 advancing, 3 declining and 8 remaining unchanged.
At close of the market, the Composite Index lost 6.65 points to close 1,294.42, the All T&T Index rose 4.53 points to 1,702.26, while the Cross Listed Index declined 2.48 points to close at 119.74. Trading ended with 364,521 units valued at $11,132,908 compared to 199,899 shares at a value of $3,145,094 on Monday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 3 stocks with bids higher than the last selling price and 2 with lower offers.
Stocks closing with gains| Clico Investments rose 2 cents and ended trading at $20.20, with 10,826 stock units changing hands, First Citizens closed with a gain of 85 cents and settled at $34, after exchanging 1,983 shares, Trinidad & Tobago NGL gained 1 cent and settled at $29.25, in an exchange of 54,665 shares, Trinidad Cement finished trading 4,000 shares with a gain of 5 cents and ended at $2.70 and Unilever Caribbean closed with an increase of 5 cents at $23, with 2,000 stock units changing hands.
Stocks closing with Losses| Grace Kennedy lost 5 cents and ended at $3, with 33,194 stock units changing hands, JMMB Group fell 1 cent and concluded trading at $1.76, after exchanging 56,000 shares and NCB Financial Group shed 35 cents and settled at $8.15, in trading 8,269 shares.
Stocks closing firm| Calypso Macro Index Fund completed trading at $15.50, after exchanging 250 shares, Massy Holdings closed at $47, after exchanging 186,100 shares, National Enterprises ended at $8, with 130 stock units changing hands, One Caribbean Media concluded trading at $10.50, after exchanging 5,000 shares, Prestige Holdings ended trading of 900 units at $7.50, Republic Financial Holdings closed at $107, after exchanging 740 shares, Scotiabank traded 364 units at $64.41 and West Indian Tobacco completed trading at $95.40, with 100 units changing hands.

Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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ICreate to open January

December 18, 2018 by

The ICreate initial public offer of shares is expected to open on January 4 with the prospectus set to be released either later this week or next week.
Information gleaned by IC Insider.com is that 74 million ordinary shares will be offered for sale to the public at approximately $1 each and is slated to list on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange. Revenue is said to be running at just under $50 million per annum with prospects for strong growth going forward. Already the company is making a small profit IC Insider.com gathers. The business is the training of students in graphic designs and animation.
The majority shares are owned by EMedia Limited with Sagicor Investments holding a minority position in it.

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Crude oil sinks below U$49

December 18, 2018 by

The price of crude oil on the world market sank to US$48.49 in early morning trading, the lowest levels since October 2017. The price peaked at US$76.10 in early October this year.
The trend suggests that the price will go even lower with increasing supplies said to be coming from production in the USA and concerns that the global economy is slowing and would use less oil.
The change in price has significance for the Caribbean region that are mostly net importers of oil, as well as Trinidad and Tobago who are producers of oil, and will earn far less income from the lower price. For Jamaica, it is likely to tame inflation as it did in November, when the country recorded zero inflation. It will also make the Bank of Jamaica’s inflation target of 4 to 6 percent targeting for the current fiscal year that the Country’s Central bank states was set by the Minister of Finance and the Public Service in September 2017, far more challenging than it was before.
If the price remains below the US$50 mark for a prolong period, then Jamaica could save somewhere in the region of US$$300 million per annum and that could positively affect the exchange rate, for the local currency.

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IC Insider.com article stings JSE into action

December 18, 2018 by

Marlene Street Forrest – General Manager of the JSE is said to have intervened to reset the price Express Catering could trade at on Tuesday.


The article, The stock exchange needs radical overhauling seems to have stung the exchange into action as all the errors that were left unattended for months, are now corrected.
Delisted stocks that were being carried as if they were still listed are now out of the trading sheet. Eppley 7.5% preference share that was recently listed, is now correctly placed in the preference section. Barita Investments 52 weeks’ high is now at $33.50 instead of $60 that was being carried for weeks. Hopefully, the exchange would have corrected all other erroneous highs and lows that resulted from cancellation of trades in the past. Importantly, the errors in the All Jamaica Composite Index for the early days of November are now correctly stated.
The Stock Exchange is to be commended for moving speedily to correct the errors that were brought to their attention. It would also be good in order to better protect their integrity that compensated investors who were firstly advised of an allocation of 16.56 percent of Seprod shares only to see it adjusted down to 16.26 percent. That would be the correct thing to do in the circumstance that prevail that led to the adjustments that took place. The phrase, the customer is right is still a valid principle to operate by.
When all is said and done just correcting the errors IC Insider.com pointed out is only a first step, the exchange needs to put in place quality control mechanisms to prevent such occurrences. It also appears that the exchange needs a qualified lawyer and accountant on board with sufficient securities experience to help police the systems effectively. If they do it could prevent matters such as prospectuses and financial statements being issued with the types of errors that are showing in the public space.

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Big gains push TTSE index – Monday

December 17, 2018 by

Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Monday with trading in 17 securities against 13 on Friday, with 4 advancing, 4 declining and 9 remaining unchanged.
At close of the market, the Composite Index gained 8.62 points to close at 1,301.07, the All T&T Index climbed 22.32 points to 1,697.73, while the Cross Listed Index declined 0.75 points to close at 122.22. Trading ended with 199,899 shares at a value of $3,145,094 compared to 113,059 shares at a value of $1,694,615 on Friday.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer ended with 2 stocks with bids higher than the last selling price and 1 with a lower offer.
Stocks closing with gains|Agostini’s rose 40 cents to $23.40, after exchanging 300 shares, Angostura Holdings added 20 cents to settle at $16, with 100 stock units changing hands, Ansa Mcal increased by 45 cents to $55.45, with 71 units trading and Massy Holdings rose 95 cents and completed trading at $47, after exchanging 182 shares.
Stocks closing with Losses| Clico Investments fell 2 cents and settled at $20.18, with 117,121 stock units changing hands, Guardian Holdings closed with a loss of 5 cents at $16.95, with an exchange of 4,007 units, NCB Financial Group shed 10 cents and ended at $8.50, after exchanging 1,175 shares and Sagicor Financial lost 5 cents and settled at $9.45, with 850 stock units changing hands.
Stocks closing firm| First Citizens ended at $33.15, after exchanging 289 shares, Grace Kennedy settled at $3.05, with 2,740 stock units changing hands, JMMB Group completed trading at $1.77, after exchanging 40,300 shares, National Enterprises settled at $8, with 70 stock units changing hands, National Flour concluded trading of 17,352 units at $1.65, Prestige Holdings concluded at $7.50, with 250 units trading, Republic Financial Holdings completed trading at $107, after exchanging 1,443 shares, Trinidad & Tobago NGL ended at $29.24, in exchanging 13,449 shares and Unilever Caribbean settled at $22.95, with 200 stock units changing hands.

Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

 

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Big drop for JSE stocks on Monday

December 17, 2018 by

The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed mixed on Monday, with declining stock just edging out advancers but the market indices dropped sharply.
A total of 36 securities changed hands in the main and US dollar markets, with prices of 12 rising, 14 declining with 10 remaining unchanged compared to 28 securities trading on Friday. At the close of the market, the All Jamaican Composite Index dived 4,293.22 points to 408,935.58. and the JSE Index dropped 3,911.61 points to close at 372,586.56.
Trading ended with 3,443,415 units valued at $195,803,075 changing hands, compared with 3,068,694 units valued at $164,573,042 on Friday.
At the close, an average of 114,781 units valued at over $6,526,769 traded, in contrast to 113,655 units valued at over $6,095,298 on Friday. The average volume and value for the month to date, amounts to 122,630 units with a value of $4,870,814, compared to 123,423 units with a value of $4,686,819, previously. November closed, with an average of 405,528 valued at $7,755,942, for each security traded.
NCB Financial led trading for the third consecutive day with 702,122 units in accounting for 20.4 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Grace Kennedy with 606,009 units or 17.6 percent of the overall volume and Sagicor Group with 530,562 units and 15.4 percent of the day’s volume.
IC bid-offer Indicator|The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 5 closing with lower offers.
In main market activity, Barita Investments lost 96 cents and ended at $32.49, with an exchange of 31,329 shares, Berger Paints rose $1.20 to close at $23.20, with just 5,000 stock units changing hands, Caribbean Cement fell 43 cents to close at $42.52, as 21,950 shares traded, Grace Kennedy ended trading 606,009 shares with an increase of $2 to end at $62. Jamaica Producers finished trading 17,375 units with a decline of $2.20 to close at $22.50, Jamaica Stock Exchange lost 89 cents to close at $9.16, in trading 15,650 shares, JMMB Group shed $1.50 in trading 178,591 shares to close at $32.50. Kingston Wharves finished at $73, after falling $2.30 trading 15,042 stock units, NCB Financial Group rose 90 cents in ending trading of 702,122 shares at $148, PanJam Investment rose $2 to close at $74, with an exchange of 20,835 stock units, Sagicor Group fell $1.01 to close at $40.99, with 530,562 shares changing hands, Scotia Group climbed $1.99 in trading 240,745 units to close at $56 and Seprod fell $2.09 trading 142,852 shares to close at $29.51.
Trading in the US dollar market amounted to 116,255 units valued at $31,628 with Margaritaville gained 1 cent and ended at 25 US cents with 100 shares trading, Productivity Business ended trading 100 shares and increased 3 cents to 59 US cents, Proven Investments traded 100 stock units and lost 2 US cents to end at $20 us cents and Sygnus Credit Investments US dollar based ordinary share traded 719 units and rose 2 cents to end at 11 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 0.33 points to close at 166.55.

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