The JSE Junior Market slipped 11.8 percent between January and August and in spite of the decline, 15 stocks recorded gains for the first eight months of the year, led by Jetcon Corporation with the price more than doubling to close at $3.77, from the start of the year.
Jetcon’s stock price benefitted from a turnaround in operations and a successful transition from the used to new car dealership business, resulting in investors piling into the stock and driving the price up with a gain of 151 percent for the year to date and dwarfing all other in the market.
MFS Capital Partners ended in second spot with gains of 41.03 percent, aided by Management execution of expansion plans, resulting in diversification and expansion of revenue sources with acquisitions and expansion of their Cambio services, both of which should contribute to revenue expansion this fiscal year that ends in June 2027. Caribbean Cream with its popular trade mark KREMI, is up by 33.97 percent, as it starts to reap the benefits of a expanding its operations and cut cost in some areas. Future Energy gained 25 percent and Spur Tree Spices boosted by a rise in profits for the six months to June, ended with the stock climbing 20.69 percent to end on the IC Insider Top 10 winners on the Junior Market. Late comers, Access Financial Services and Image Plus also joined the IC Top 10. Access is had steady first quarter results and the removal of major overhang of selling in the stock helped and Image Plus seeming to be benefiting from acquisitions.
Worst Performers. Notwithstanding to strong showing by the winners, the Junior Market suffered notable declines, following the porting of some poor profit results. Kintyre tops the ICInsider.com Top 10 Junior Market losers, reporting a steep 75.71 percent decline for the period year to August. This is partly tied to newer shareholders liquidating their holdings. The suspension of trading in Kintyre stock has not provided room for any price rebound to share price following the rapid sell off of shares that took place after news shares were issued earlier this year. Main Event ended as the second worst performing stock with 48.7 percent fall with profits down sharply. Fosrich slipped 43.37 percent, with huge losses incurred in 2025 and 2026 so far. Derrimon Trading fell sharply 42.2 percent and Edufocal declined by 39.29 percent, in rounding out the list of the five worst performers.
The market’s PE ratio, the frequently used measure to value stocks, ended at 13.2 based on 2025-26 earnings and 16.2 based on historical earnings. The ICInsider.com PE chart and the detailed daily charts provide investors with regularly updated information to help in decision-making. The PE ratio chart covers all ordinary shares listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, grouped by industry, allowing for easy comparisons within a sector and the overall market. The earnings per share (EPS) and PE ratios are based on 2024 and 2025 actual or projected earnings, excluding any major one time income or expense.
Investors who buy when the price of a stock is close to the average will find that they are not inclined to overpay for a stock. The net asset value of each company is incorporated into the chart. Investors can use this measure in assessing stock values. The chart also shows daily changes in stock prices and the percentage year to date price movement based on the last traded prices. Dividends that are paid or are due to be paid and yields for each company are shown in the Main and Junior Markets’ daily report charts, along with the closing volume of the highest bid and the lowest offer for each company.
Markets closed with the number and the value of stocks changing hands jumping over the previous day, resulting in prices of 38 shares rising and 39 declining.
The market’s PE ratio, the most popular measure used to determine the value of stocks, ended at 21.2 on 2023-24 earnings and 12.8 times those for 2024-25 at the close of trading. ICInsider.com PE ratio chart and the more detailed daily charts provide investors with regularly updated information to help decision-making.
Investors who buy when the price of a stock is close to the average will find that they are not inclined to overpay for a stock.
At the close of trading, the JSE Combined Market Index rose 387.57 points to end at 331,752.56, the All Jamaican Composite Index rallied 299.17 points to close at 356,495.76, the JSE Main Index advanced 718.15 points to finish trading at 319,280.17. The Junior Market Index skidded 43.17 points to wrap-up trading at 3,685.32 and the JSE USD Market Index dipped 2.81 points to end trading at 233.72.
In the preference segment, no stock traded with a notable price change.
Investors who buy when the price of a stock is close to the average will find that they are not inclined to overpay for a stock.
At the close of trading, 137,437,210 shares were exchanged in all three markets, up sharply from 13,481,892 units on Friday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets jumped to $397.68 million, well above the $63.38 million that was exchanged on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed trading of 24,785 shares at US$735 down from 727,558 stock units at US$21,301 on Thursday.
At the close, the JSE Combined Market Index dived 1,769.31 points to finish trading at 331,364.99, the All Jamaican Composite Index shed 624.47 points to close at 356,196.59, the JSE Main Index dropped 1,389.45 points to end at 318,562.02. The Junior Market Index skidded 62.76 points to 3,728.49 and the JSE USD Market Index rose 3.15 points to settle at 236.53.
Investors who buy when the price of a stock is close to the average will find that they are not inclined to overpay for a stock.
At the close of trading on Monday, the JSE Combined Market Index dived 5.384.99 points to close at 336,302.80, the All Jamaican Composite Index dropped 4,751.24 points to finish at 363,559.46, while the JSE Main Index plunged 5,752.15 points to end trading at 323,170.52. The Junior Market Index rose 1.10 points to 3,793.15 and the JSE USD Market Index fell 0.14 points to wrap up trading at 250.57.
In the preference segment, Jamaica Public Service 9.5% increased $51 to $2,900 and Productive Business Solutions 9.75% preference share dropped $10 in closing at $105.
The net asset value of each company is reported as a guide for investors to assess the value of stocks based on this measure quickly. The chart also shows daily changes in stock prices and the percentage year to date price movement based on the last traded prices.
Junior Market stocks fared better than their
Elite Diagnostic struggling to overcome machine failures, declined by 46 percent, Medical Disposables suffered a fall of 44 percent as profit collapsed in 2023, helped by increased finance costs. CAC2000 fell 43 percent and 2022 highflyer, Fosrich dropped 38 percent. Advertising and public relations firm Limners and Bards fell 38 percent, money transfer and micro lender, Lasco Financial dropped 33 percent and petroleum distributor Future Energy a 2022 high flying stock retreated with a loss of 28 percent.
ISP Finance, a microfinancing company led the Junior Market following news that two new directors with experience in the financial service sector and who had worked with in the past in arranging deals for them were appointed to the board. There was also speculation that the majority shares could probably change hands sooner rather than later. There is also the expectation for increased lending to customers is expected to impact revenues and profit positively following a decline in the half year profit when loans jumped to nearly a billion dollars from under $800 million. Lasco Distributors profits for the fiscal year to March jumped and was followed by improved results in the June Quarter as investors rewarded the performance with s solid price movement. Main Event continued to recover from the damage to revenues and profits during the COVID, bouncing back as profit more than doubled to $216 million from $104 million for the nine months to July. Movement in Caribbean Assurance Brokers’ stock price follows profit jumping from just $4.5 million in the June 2022 half year to $18 million this year. Regency Petroleum profit fell from $51 million to $25 million for the half year but hope for improved profits drove the stock with new gas stations being opened or to be opened. General Accident migrated from the Junior Market to the Main Market on the last day of the month, with the increased stock price spurred by profit surging 195 percent to $165 million in the 2023 half year.
Fesco stock price declined sharply for the period even as the net profits for the June quarter were marginally higher than that of the similar 2022 period, with revenues marginally higher. The stock price pulled back from heady levels in 2022 to adjust to the earnings in the last fiscal year of just under 23 cents per share with indications that it may not significantly improve in the current fiscal year to warrant the high premium it had in 2022. Fosrich, on the other hand, had a sharp decline in profits for the second quarter and the half year but it too enjoyed a big premium in the stock price in 2022, investors readjusted their expectations by marking the price down, although both stocks got a two day bounce at the end of September that improved their performance year to date. Lasco Financial had a third less profit in the 2023 fiscal year than the prior year and reported vastly poorer results in the third quarter to June and that seemed to have encouraged more selling of the stock. Revenues and profit bounced in the third quarter for Limners and Bards but are still down year to date compared with last year and that did not help the stock that lost value during the period. Edufocal profit bounced in 2023 and may not necessarily justify the 38 percent fall in the stock price, while iCreate had totally disastrous results in the 2022 fiscal year as well as in the first half of 2023, with the company’s performance continuing to raise questions about its future. Elite and CAC 2000 suffered a reversal in fortune that is reflected in the decline in stock prices of both companies.
All other movements in the Junior Market TOP10 were 3 percent or less. The Main Market Berger Paints popped 12 percent to $10.60, followed by a 9 percent rise for 
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