All Jamaica drops 8,000 points – Friday

October 26, 2018 by

NCB Financial dropped $8 on Friday.

The Jamaica Stock Exchange closed on Friday with big losses in heavily capitalized companies with NCB Financial leading with a fall of $8 and Grace Kennedy falling $4 that pulled the market down 2 percent with the 5th largest points decline in the market’s history and the second big fall in October.
The market ended with the prices of 8 securities rising, 15 declining while 6 remained unchanged leading to the All Jamaica Composite Index diving 8,031.01 points to 393,833.61 and the JSE Index dropping 7,317.16 points to close at 358,826.99.
Trading closed with 29 active securities in the main and US dollar market compared to 30 on Thursday but with higher volume and value as 4,241,799 units valued at $75,795,522 traded, compared with 8,202,147 units valued at $132,503,743 changing hands, on Thursday.
Main market trading closed with JMMB Group 7.5% preference share leading with 1,652,103 units trading, or 39 percent of the day’s volume and Jamaica Broilers with 713,975 units and 16.8 percent of volume traded. Jamaica Stock Exchange leading with 448,893 units and 10.6 percent of the day’s volume, followed by
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers, an indication that falling prices are likely to be dominant on Friday.
Trading resulted in an average of 151,493 units valued at over $2,706,983, in contrast to 292,934 shares valued at $4,732,277 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 300,895 shares, valued $5,350,785 and previously 308,613 shares, valued $5,494,805. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Grace Kennedy dropped $4, trading 120,588 shares to close at $55, Jamaica Broilers added $2 in trading 713,975 stock units, and closed at $30, Jamaica Producers lost $1 to close at $26 with 17,624 units changing hands, Jamaica Stock Exchange climbed 95 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $9.20, with 448,893 shares, JMMB Group lost 80 cents and ended at $34, exchanging 60,884 shares., NCB Financial Group dropped $8 to $120, trading 207,683 shares, PanJam Investment closed at $65.70, after declining $1.30 in trading 1,890 stock units, Portland JSX lost 50 cents in ending at $8 with 136,300 units, Sagicor Group dropped $2 to end at $45, trading 49,349 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund dropped $1.70 to $13.20, with 13,594 shares changing hands. Scotia Group climbed $2.50 in trading 33,416 units to close at $54, Supreme Ventures rose 25 cents to end at $16.50, in an exchange of 10,000 shares and Wisynco Group finished at $10.10, in trading 138,251 units after posting a loss of 20 cents.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with Proven Investments trading 2,152 to close at 21 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index rose 2.97 points to close at 164.66.

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Republic hits new high on TTSE – Friday

October 26, 2018 by

Republic broke through resistance in the summer months and headed higher with more to come.

Republic Financial Holdings jumped $3.50 to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $110, in trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Friday after exchanging just 18 shares.
Market activities ended with 17 securities trading against 15 on Thursday, 4 advanced, 6 declined and 7 remained unchanged, leading to trading of 375,557 shares valued $7,316,814, compared to 254,860 shares valued $1,543,091 changing hands on Thursday.
Trading closed, with the Composite Index gaining 4.99 points to 1,236.14. The All T&T Index rose 13.41 points to 1,710.53, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.50 points to close at 102.42.
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 to Watch include, a number of companies that are exhibiting bullish tendencies and may be moving higher in the days ahead, the group includes, Agostini’s, Ansa McAl, Grace Kennedy, Republic Holdings, Point Lisas and West Indian Tobacco.
Stocks closing with gains| Point Lisas gained 2 cents and ended at $3.64, with 24,143 stock units changing hands, Scotiabank finished trading 3,846 units after gaining 75 cents to close at $64.75 and Trinidad & Tobago NGL closed with an increase of 20 cents at $29.50, after exchanging 1,129 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| Angostura Holdings concluded trading with a loss of 2 cents at $15.73, with 150 stock units changing hands, First Citizens lost 5 cents and completed trading at $32.65, after exchanging 2,354 shares, One Caribbean Media fell 5 cents and settled at $11.95, exchanging 100 shares, Sagicor Financial closed with 229,145 stock units changing hands and declined 2 cents to $7.50, Trinidad Cement shed 5 cents and settled at $2.60, after exchanging 5,231 shares and Unilever Caribbean lost 50 cents and concluded trading at $25, with 20,388 stock units changing hands.
Stocks trading with no price change| Clico Investments concluded trading at $20.20, with 122 stock units changing hands, Grace Kennedy closed at $2.78, with 23,050 stock units being exchanged, Guardian Holdings ended at $16.90, trading 15,353 units, Massy Holdings settled at $46.92, after exchanging 3,191 shares, National Enterprises concluded market activity at $8.96, with 500 stock units changing hands, NCB Financial Group completed trading of 729 shares at $6 and West Indian Tobacco ended at $90, after exchanging 45,908 units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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Iron Rock’s first profitable quarter

October 26, 2018 by

Iron Rock hits 52 weeks’ high of $4.07 on Friday.

Improvement in its bottom-line of Iron Rock Insurance continued into the September quarter, with profit of $1.1 million, the first quarterly profit in its short history. For the nine months’ period, the company suffered a loss of just $7.6 million down from $60.4 million in 2017.
For the quarter, gross premium income (GPI) increased to $99.4 million from $83.9 million in 2017 with net premium written of $41 million and net earned premium of $48.3 million. For the nine months of 2018, GPI grew 48 percent to $382 million, up from $257 million in 2017 and net earned premium increased 272 percent to $129 million from just $47 million in 2017.
Operating expenses inched up to $36.5 million in the quarter from $35 million in 2017 and grew 11 percent to $111 million from $100 million in 2017. Insurance claims jumped to $23 million from $12 million for the quarter and $61 million for the nine months, from $34 million last year.
Other income totaled $13.5 million for the quarter, from $10 million previously and $35 million for the period to September, versus $24 million. The company is projected to end the year with an overall profit.
Shareholders’ equity now stands at $525 million, down from $512 million at the end of September last year. Cash and investments now amount to $617 million, while Insurance liabilities, claims and other payables amount to $373 million.
The stock now trades on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange at $4.80.

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More profits & stocks for WI Tobacco

October 26, 2018 by

Watch Witco stock in coming days

Pretax profit increased 10.2 percent at Trinidad based West Indian Tobacco to $438.7 million, for the nine months to September 2018, over the similar period in 2017 while Profit after tax increased 10 percent to $303 million over 2017, from increased revenues of 9.5 percent to $862 million from $787 million.
For the September quarter, revenues grew 6.4 percent to $292 million from $274 million and resulted in profit after tax rising 12.5 percent to $109.6 million. The company benefitted from improved gross profit margins in both periods, with 65 percent in the quarter versus 61.5 percent in 2017, while the nine months improved to 61.8 percent from 60.44 percent in 2017. Distribution cost more than doubled to $8.4 million in the quarter from $3.5 million in 2017 and rose sharply from $9.9 million in 2017 to September to $18.7 million. Administrative and other operating expenses declined for the quarter to $18 million from $23.7 million while the nine months rose from $68 million to $77 million.
Profit for the 2018 fiscal year, declined to $380 million from $515.5 million in 2016 as increased taxation on profits and cigarettes negatively impacted sales and the results.
Earnings per share for the quarter amounted to $1.30 and $3.60 for the nine months, with the full years likely to exceed $5 and resulting in a PE ratio of 18 times earnings.
The stock will be split into three shares for each existing one held by shareholders and will make the price and liquidity going forward, more attractive for investors. The stock last traded at $90 on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange.
The Board approved the payment of a third interim dividend of $1.17 per ordinary share payable on 26 November 2018, to shareholders of record at close of business on November 5.

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Some banks offloading US dollars

October 25, 2018 by

National Commercial Bank sold off US$ on Thursday.

The Jamaican dollar closed below the J$130 to the US dollar on Thursday, with the selling rate to buyers ending at an average of $129.62. The rate fell as National Commercial Bank bought just US$6.2 million and sold $14.8 million while JN Bank offloaded US$5.3 million while buying a mere $190,000.
On Wednesday, Scotiabank offloaded nearly US$23 million against buying $13.6 million. For the week to date, dealers bought US$182 million and sold US$204 million. In the previous full week, purchases amounted to $192 million and selling $188 million. With one more day of trading to come for this week, inflows will be well ahead of last weeks’ level which included purchases of US$10 from Bank of Jamaica (BOJ). No sale of foreign exchange was done by the central bank this week, and none are planned for the next four weeks. BOJ sold US$19 million to the market up to November 15 last year.
For the current week dealers also bought 5.9 million of Pound sterling and sold 3.4 million and purchased $21.2 million Canadian dollars and sold $18.9 million.
In 2017, for the first four days of the fourth week of October, purchases of all dealers and Cambios amounted to $196 million which including purchases from BOJ of US$10 million with sales of US$179 million.

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All Jamaica jumps 4,000 points – Thursday

October 25, 2018 by

Sagicor Group & PanJam hit new closing highs.

Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Thursday saw the All Jamaica Index surging 6,201.47 with just less than 35 minutes left in the trading session with the index hitting the 404,000 mark before losing some steam in the final 30 minutes of trading.
The market ended with the prices of 10 securities rising, 15 declining while 5 remained unchanged leading to the All Jamaica Composite Index jumped 4,065.81 points to 401,864.62 and the JSE Index climbed 3,704.41 points to close at 366,144.15.
Trading close with 30 active securities in the main and US dollar market compared to 36 on Wednesday but with higher volume and value as 8,202,147 units valued at $132,503,743 traded, compared with 2,854,732 units valued at $50,801,535 changing hands, on Wednesday.
Main market trading closed with Wisynco Group leading with 5,337,134 units and 65 percent of the day’s volume, followed by JMMB Group 7.5% preference share trading 1,058,439 shares or 7.5 percent of the day’s volume and Kingston Wharves with 358,384 units and 4.4 percent of volume traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 2 closing with lower offers, an indication that falling prices are likely to be dominant on Thursday.
Trading resulted in an average of 292,934 units valued at over $4,732,277, in contrast to 101,955 shares valued at $1,814,341 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 308,613 shares, valued $5,494,805 and previously 309,467 shares, valued $5,538,737. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Berger Paints fell 49 cents to finish at $22.01, trading 2,875 shares, Grace Kennedy rose $1.50, trading 28,698 shares at $59, Jamaica Broilers lost $2 in trading 231,668 stock units, and closed at $28, Jamaica Producers lost $2 to close of $27 with 22,481 units changing hands, Kingston Wharves lost $5 and finished at $70, with 358,384 stock units changing hands, Mayberry Investments rose 45 cents to $10.50 with 4,000 units trading, NCB Financial Group fell 25 cents to $128 trading 31,645 shares, PanJam Investment ended at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $67, after jumping $3.01 trading 23,000 stock units, Pulse Investments jumped 58 cents in trading a mere 200 shares at $2.98, Sagicor Group jumped $3.80 to a 52 weeks’ high of $47, trading 51,871 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund jumped $1.65 and settled at $14.90, with 54,320 shares changing hands. Salada Foods fell 50 cents and ended trading 19,850 stock units, to at $21.50, Scotia Group shed $1.50 in trading 249,590 units to close at $51.50, Seprod finished trading 2,000 shares, with a fall of $1 to close at $32, Sterling Investments fell 50 cents to finish trading 6,438 shares at $22, Supreme Ventures lost 75 cents to end at $16.25, in an exchange of 37,075 shares and Wisynco Group finished at $10.30, in trading 5,337,134 units after posting gains of 30 cents.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 19,733 units valued at $12,220 changing hands as JMMB Group 5.75% lost 2 cents to close at $2.03 with 4,500 shares trading, Proven Investments ended with a rise of 1 cent trading 15,233 to close at 21 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index fell 0.91 points to 161.69.

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Junior Market gains on low volume – Thursday

October 25, 2018 by

The Junior Market Index rose 32.22 points to close at 3,297.35, on Thursday with just 22 securities trading, compared to 30 on Wednesday. At the close 8 advanced, 2 declined and 12 remained unchanged.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 7 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, while 6 closed with lower offers.
The market traded a mere 649,685 units valued at $2,602,109 compared to 427,247 units valued at $2,611,085 on Wednesday.
Trading ended with an average of a mere 29,531 units for an average of $118,278 in contrast to 14,242 units for an average of $87,036 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 64,288 units valued at$294,990 and previously 65,954 units valued at $303,460. September, ended with an average of 484,335 at $2,628,299 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, AMG Packaging ended at $1.80, with 67,500 stock units trading, CAC2000 finished trading 7,935 shares at $16, Caribbean Cream closed trading 55 cents higher at $5.90, swapping 955 shares, Caribbean Producers finished trading 6,100 units at $6.84, Derrimon Trading ended at $2.82, with 14,300 shares changing hands. Dolphin Cove concluded trading 1,030 shares after rising 10 cents to $14.90, Elite Diagnostic finished with a loss of 5 cents at $3.40, with 15,100 stock units changing hands, Everything Fresh gained 16 cents in trading 33,310 shares to close at $2.04, Express Catering ended trading 72,810 shares at $8, FosRich Group traded 65 cents higher at $3.75, with 16,584 shares changing hands. GWest Corporation closed at $1.60, trading 30,078 stock units, Honey Bun ended 10 cents higher at $4.15, with an exchange of 8,444 units, Indies Pharma ended trading at $3 with 107,461 shares changing hands, Iron Rock concluded trading of 15,000 shares after rising 7 cents to close at $4.80, Jetcon Corporation ended trading at $3.85, with 70,044 stock units changing hands. Knutsford Express closed at $12, with 1,250 shares trading, Lasco Distributors ended 10 cents higher at $4, with 97,607 shares changing hands, Lasco Financial concluded trading of 14,903 stock units, after gaining 20 cents to $5.50, Lasco Manufacturing finished at $3.50, with 31,901 units changing hands. Main Event settled with a loss of 5 cents at $5.95, exchanging 1,332 shares and Paramount Trading closed at $2.75, in exchanging 26,306 shares. In the junior market preference segment, Eppley 8.25% concluded trading of 9,735 units at $6.06.

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

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TTSE makes gains on Thursday

October 25, 2018 by

Stocks mostly fell in trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Thursday, with trading in 15 securities against 13 on Wednesday, 4 advanced, 1 declined and 10 remained unchanged.
The market ended trading of 254,860 shares valued $1,543,091, compared to 190,234 shares valued $7,710,433 changing hands on Wednesday.
Trading closed, with the Composite Index gaining 1.62 points to 1,231.15. The All T&T Index fell 0.67 points to 1,697.12, while the Cross Listed Index gained 0.54 points to close at 102.92.
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 3 with lower offers.
Stocks to Watch include, a number of companies that are exhibiting bullish tendencies and may be moving higher in the days ahead, the group includes, Agostini’s, Ansa McAl, Grace Kennedy, Republic Holdings, Point Lisas and West Indian Tobacco.
Stocks closing with gains| First Caribbean International Bank closed with a gain of 10 cents and completed trading at $8.50, with 575 units, First Citizens gained 5 cents and settled at $32.70, after exchanging 2,950 shares, JMMB Group finished trading with a gain of 2 cents at $1.63, after exchanging 100,000 shares and Republic Financial Holdings closed with an increase of 14 cents and ended at 52 weeks’ high of $106.50, after exchanging 4,383 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| Trinidad & Tobago NGL fell 20 cents to close at $29.30, in exchanging 750 shares.
Stocks trading with no price change| Clico Investments ended at $20.20, with 5,020 stock units changing hands, Grace Kennedy closed at $2.78, in swapping 26,950 stock units, Massy Holdings ended at $46.92, after exchanging 209 shares, National Enterprises closed at $8.96, with 7,611 stock units changing hands, National Flour completed trading of 47,679 units at $1.70, One Caribbean Media concluded activity at $12, after exchanging 200 shares, Prestige Holdings completed trading of 653 units at $7.50, Sagicor Financial ended at $7.52, with 57,500 stock units changing hands, Scotiabank completed trading at $64, with 130 units and Unilever Caribbean ended at $25.50, with 250 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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15 stocks fall 6 rise on JSE – Wednesday

October 24, 2018 by

Jamaica Stock Exchange.

The number of securities trading fell on Wednesday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange main and US markets to 30 up from 36 on Tuesday but with 2,854,732 units valued at over $50,801,535 trading, compared with 2,431,671 units valued at $40,003,992 changing hands, on Tuesday.
Main market trading closed with JMMB Group 7.5% preference share leading with 1,132,076 units and 42.7 percent of the day’s volume, followed by Grace Kennedy trading 223,066 shares or 7.8 percent of the day’s volume and Carreras with 210,994 units and 7.4 percent of volume traded.
The market ended with the prices of 6 securities rising, 15 declining while 9 remained unchanged leading to the All Jamaica Composite Index declining 1,319.14 points to 397,798.81 and the JSE Index falling by 1,201.89 points to close at 362,439.74.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks ending with bids higher than the last selling prices and 5 closing with lower offers, an indication that falling prices are likely to be dominant on Thursday.
Trading resulted in an average of 101,955 units valued at over $1,814,341, in contrast to 78,441 shares valued at $1,290,451 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 309,467 shares, valued $5,538,737 and previously 321,423 shares, valued $5,766,429. September closed, with an average of 1,022,243 shares valued $15,752,876, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments lost $1.50 to close at $18, in exchanging 36,644 shares, Berger Paints rose 50 cents to finish at $22.50, trading 403 shares, Grace Kennedy fell $1.50, trading 223,066 shares at $57.50, Jamaica Producers lost 50 cents to close of $29 with 33,405 units changing hands, Mayberry Investments fell 45 cents to settle at $10.05, exchanging 17,161 units, Mayberry Jamaican Equities declined $1 to $12 with 8,800 units trading, NCB Financial Group climbed $3.25 and ended trading 74,617 shares at $128.25, Portland JSX rose 50 cents and ended at $8.50, trading just 100 units. Pulse Investments lost 46 cents in trading 9,496 shares at $2.40, Sagicor Group fell 80 cents to $43.20, trading 26,046 shares, Scotia Group gained 50 cents in trading 51,880 units to close at $53, Seprod finished trading 19,103 shares, with a fall of $2.60 to close at $33 and Sterling Investments fell 80 cents to finish trading 22,768 shares at $22.50.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 803,989 units valued at $107,793 changing hands as Proven Investments ended with a loss of 1 cent trading 204,139 to close at 20 US cents and Sygnus Credit Investments US dollar ordinary share traded 599,850 units and gained 0.5 cent to end at 11.5 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index fell 2.06 points to 162.60.

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Prices mostly down on TTSE – Wednesday

October 24, 2018 by

Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange Head Quarters

Stocks mostly fell in trading on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with trading in 13 securities against 12 on Tuesday, 1 advanced, 3 declined and 9 remained unchanged.
The market ended trading of 190,234 shares valued $7,710,433, compared to 54,899 shares at a value of $524,117 changing hands on Tuesday. Just two securities accounted for the bulk of trading. Trinidad and Tobago NGL traded 88,442 shares for a value of $2,608,967 and West Indian Tobacco closed with of 50,349 shares traded for $4,531,410.
Trading closed, with the Composite Index lost 3.40 points to 1,229.53, the All T&T Index fell 2.20 points to 1,697.79, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.63 points to close at 102.38.
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 3 with lower offers.
Stocks to Watch include, a number of companies that are exhibiting bullish tendencies and may be moving higher in the days ahead, the group includes, Agostini’s, Ansa McAl, Grace Kennedy, Republic Holdings,Point Lisas and West Indian Tobacco.
Stocks closing with gains|Republic Financial Holdings closed with a gain of 1 cent and ended at 52 weeks’ high of $106.36, after exchanging a mere 20 shares.
Stocks closing with losses| First Citizens ended trading 10 cents lower to end at $32.65, after exchanging 1,285 shares, NCB Financial Group concluded trading with a loss of 10 cents at $6, exchanging 605 shares and Scotiabank traded 115 units and closed with a loss of 75 cents at $64.
Stocks trading with no price change| Clico Investments completed trading at $20.20, with 7,821 stock units changing hands, Guardian Holdings settled at $16.90, trading 7,800 units, Massy Holdings ended at $46.92, after exchanging 300 shares, National Flour closed at $1.70, trading 3,400 units, Prestige Holdings traded 14,600 units in settling at $7.50, Sagicor Financial completed trading at $7.52, with 11,225 stock units changing hands, Trinidad & Tobago NGL ended at $29.50, after exchanging 88,442 shares, Trinidad Cement ended at $2.65, after exchanging 4,272 shares and West Indian Tobacco settled at $90, with 50,349 units changing hands.
EM>Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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