Wisynco trades 112M shares on JSE – Friday

March 2, 2018 by

NCB Capital Markets, Stanley Thompson (left) exchanges laughs with Wisynco, Chairman William Mahfood, Wisynco CEO Andrew Mahfood & PWC’s Fiona Hyman

Wisynco Group dominated trading on the main market activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday as the recently listed stock accounted for 111.76 million units changing hands.
The big trade by in Wisynco Group, pushed trading in the overall market to 115,025,659 units valued at $1,171,809,500 versus 22,773,292 units valued at $377,866,606 on Thursday.
With the second and third largest shareholders accounting for 37.7 million units each, the seller of the bulk of the shares traded came from Wisynco Group Caribbean Ltd with just over 2.88 billion units. The trade reduced the majority holdings to just over 74 percent of the total shares issued.
Activity on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with 26 securities changing hands, ending with 11 securities rising, 7 falling, 8 trading firm. The JSE All Jamaican Composite Index rose 796.36 points to 318,127.47 and the JSE Index advanced by 725.57 points to 289,850.09.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments closed at $7.50, with 6,200 shares changing hands, Berger Paints ended with a loss of $2.35 at $19, with 6,550 stock units, Cable & Wireless concluded trading 9 cents higher at $1.10, with 110,691 units exchanged, Carreras finished 5 cents higher at $11, with 82,757 shares, Caribbean Cement settled at 8 cents more at $33.09, with 4,074 shares. Ciboney Group ended trading with a loss of 3 cents at a 52 weeks’ low of 7 cents, with 1,851,345 shares trading, Grace Kennedy climbed $2 to end at $46, with 4,168 stock units, Jamaica Broilers finished trading at $19, with 38,638 units, Jamaica Producers closed with a loss of 2 cents at $15, with 338,051 shares. Jamaica Stock Exchange ended at $6.55, with 1,500 shares, JMMB Group concluded trading in jumping $1.99 to $26, with 35,818 shares, Kingston Properties finished at $6.65, with 2,059 stock units trading, Mayberry Investments ended trading with a loss of 45 cents at $5, in exchanging 2,283 shares. NCB Financial Group traded at $99.50, with 6,795 shares, 1834 Investments finished trading for 4 cents more at $1.19, with 6,534 shares, PanJam Investment gained 20 cents to end at $41.50, with 5,965 units, Portland JSX concluded trading at $10, with 506 shares. Radio Jamaica settled with a loss of 2 cents at $1.08, with 55,760 shares, Sagicor Group ended trading after rising 59 cents at $37.10, with 35,845 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund traded $1 higher at record high of $17, with 58,784 shares, Scotia Group finished trading with a loss of $1.98 at $50.02, with 142,058 shares, Supreme Ventures finished 19 cents higher at $11.95, with 55,000 units. Victoria Mutual Investments settled at $4.45, trading 216,227 shares, Wisynco Group lost 45 cents to end at $10.25, with 111,757,051 shares traded and in the main market preference segment, Jamaica Money Market 7.5% traded at $1.95, with 1,000 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 “Partial recovery for JSE majors – Friday.”

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Some impressive profit results

March 2, 2018 by

The latest set of listed companies to report financials show an array of impressive profits for a number of them, turn around situation in one and flat results for a few.

C&W reported a small loss of $138M for 2017 before tax.

Cable and Wireless reported a very small loss for 2017 down sharply from a billion loss in 2016 and is about to break out into a highly profitable period starting in 2018. The company that has chalked up accumulated losses of more than $48 billion reported losses of only $138 million before tax for 2017, and just $383 million after tax, flowing from a 9 percent rise in revenues to $27 billion with a big rise in mobile revenues by 54 percent to $15 billion while interest cost at $5.2 billion the company lost the year, down from a loss of $1.4 billion in 2016. With the sharp fall in interest rates locally interest cost should drop by around $2 billion in 2018 and plunge the company into an excellent profit position with continued growth in revenues. Unfortunately, the parent company wants to take over the company at a low price, after local shareholders have suffered losses for many years at just the stage when good times seem to be returning.
Newly listed FosRich Group posted an 81 percent increase in profit to $55 million and earnings per share of 14 cents from revenues that fell 9.5 percent to $1.05 billion, but helped by other income of $42 million comprising mostly interest and foreign exchange gains.
Jamaica Producers enjoyed strong gains in operating profits with an increase of 77 percent to $662 million after adjusting the 2016 results for non-recurring gains of $3.7 billion. Operating income for the year was up an impressive 34 percent resulting in gross profit rising from $3.24 billion to $5.14 billion. Earnings per share came in at 59 cents.
Stationery and Office Supplies that listed in August last year enjoyed a 29 percent bounce in revenues for the full year and 37 percent rise in the December quarter to record full year revenues of $906 million and a 78 percent rise in profits to $83 or earnings per share of 38 cents.
Kingston Wharves profit climbed 18 percent from $1.29 billion to $1.63 billion for 2018 from revenues that moved from $5.41 billion to $6.37 billion for a rise of 28 percent and ended with earnings per share of $1.14.
Grace Kennedy continues to struggle to increase profits ended 2018 with flat results of $4.15 billion versus $4.12 billion in 2016. The 2016 figures and one off gains that makes the 2018 better that it appears on the surface. Revenues rose from $88.3 billion to $92 billion in 2018 and other revenues slipped from $2.38 billion to $2.1 billion. The group reports $4.15 in earnings per share.

FosRich profit rose 77% for 2017.

Supreme Ventures reports earnings per share at $44 cents from profits that are virtually flat with 2016 results coming from a 25 percent rise in revenues to $56.2 billion. Profit for the year ended at $1.197 billion from $1.178 billion. The 29017 suffered from write off of assets and impairment amounting to $484 million while repairs and maintenance rose by $110 million.
The 2017 listed Victoria Mutual Investments reports a 9 percent rise in profits to $346 million from a 19 percent rise in net income of $966 million and produced earnings per share of 29 cents.

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JSE main market in sharp drop – Thursday

March 1, 2018 by

Carreras traded most shares on Thursday, with more than 7M units changing hands.

Fresh from vested interest hiking some prices at the close of the previous month the Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed the first day of March with a big fall as prices returned to more normal levels on Thursday.
At the close, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index dived sharply by 3,876.54 points to 317,331.11 and the JSE Index sank 3,531.97 points to end at 289,124.52.
Trading on Thursday closed 28 securities changing hands with 9 advancing, 13 declining and 5 trading firm, in the main and US dollar markets.
The securities with the largest price changes include, Berger Paints rising $1.35 to $21.35, Caribbean Cement falling $2.99 to $33.01, Jamaica Producers rising $1.90 to $17, JMMB Group that dropped by $1.99 to $24.01, Sagicor Group with a fall of 99 cents to $36.51 and Salada Foods with a decline of $1 to $10.50.
Main market activity ended with 22,773,292 units valued at $377,866,606 compared to 5,402,156 units valued at$66,110,510 on Thursday. Carreras accounted for 7,029,473 units changing hands, or 30.87 percent of the total volume traded, followed by Ciboney Group with 4,963,048 units representing 21.79 percent of the market volume and JMMB Group with 4,190,962 units or 18.40 percent of units traded and Grace Kennedy with 4,047,260 shares.
Trading results in an average of 875,896 shares valued at $14,533,331 for each security traded, in contrast to 200,080 shares valued at $2,448,537 on Wednesday. In contrast, February closed with average of 213,336 units valued at $3,392,475 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 bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with Margaritaville concluded trading added 1 cent and settled at 20 US cents with 2,322 units and Sterling Investments fell 3 cents and ended at closed a 52 weeks’ low of 9 US cents with 1,000 shares. Overall, trading closed with just 3,322 shares with a value of US$554 as the market index slipped 0.94 points to 171.61.

For more details of market activities see – JSE volume jump sharply on Thursday.

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JSE volume jumped sharply on Thursday

March 1, 2018 by
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Main Market activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange jumped sharply on Thursday, ending trading on with 22,773,292 units valued at $377,866,606 changing hands versus 5,402,156 units valued at $66,110,510 on Wednesday.
Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market activity ended with 26 securities traded ending with 10 securities rising, 12 falling, 5 trading firm, leading to market indices to a huge fall. The JSE All Jamaican Composite Index dropped 3,876.54 points to 317,331.11 and the JSE Index collapsed 3,531.97 points to 289,124.52.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments closed 50 cents higher at $7.50, with 5,708 shares, Berger Paints jumped $1.35 to close at $21.35, with 32,521 stock units, Cable & Wireless concluded trading with a loss of 20 cents at $1.01, with 288,269 units, Carreras finished at $10.95, with 7,029,473 shares, Caribbean Cement settled with a loss of $2.99 at $33.01, while exchanging 39,375 shares. Ciboney Group ended trading at 10 cents, with 4,963,048 shares, Grace Kennedy traded with a loss of 25 cents at $44, with 4,047,260 stock units, Jamaica Broilers finished trading 2 cents higher at $19, with 11,908 units, Jamaica Producers closed $1.90 higher at $17, with 32,106 shares. Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with a loss of 45 cents at $6.55, trading 3,000 shares, JMMB Group concluded trading with a loss of $1.99 at $24.01, after 4,190,962 shares were swapped, Kingston Properties finished at $6.65, with 384 stock units, Kingston Wharves settled at $42, trading 1,908 units. Mayberry Investments ended trading 44 cents higher at $5.45, with 2,000 shares, NCB Financial Group traded with a loss of 50 cents at $99.50, with 69,631 shares, PanJam Investment rose 30 cents to $41.30, with 49,336 units, Pulse Investments finished with a loss of 14 cents at $1.85, with 200,000 shares changing hands. Radio Jamaica settled 1 cent higher at $1.10, with 580 shares, Sagicor Group ended with a loss of 99 cents at $36.51, trading 41,250 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended trading at $16, with 59,513 shares Salada Foods fell $1 to $10.50, with 687,500 units, Scotia Group finished trading at $52, with 27,741 shares. Supreme Ventures concluded trading with a loss of 19 cents at $11.76, with 34,690 stock units, Victoria Mutual Investments finished with a loss of 1 cent at $4.45, with 454,250 units and Wisynco Group settled with a loss of 79 cents at $10.70, with 456,979 shares. In the main market preference segment, JMMB Group 7.5% rose 14 cents and closed at 99 US cents with 43,900 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place. For more details of market activities, see “JSE main market in sharp drop – Thursday.”

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JSE rise on reduced volume on Wednesday

February 28, 2018 by

Main Market activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange remained elevated on Wednesday, ending trading on with 5,402,156 units valued at $66,110,510 changing hands versus 8,204,593 units valued at $155,870,781 on Tuesday.
Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market activity ended with 27 securities traded ending with 11 securities rising, 8 falling, 8 trading firm. The JSE All Jamaican Composite Index climbed 1,154.95 points to 321,207.65 and the JSE Index advanced by 1,052.29 points to 292,656.49.
In the main market activity, Barita Investments closed with a loss of 70 cents at $7, with 20,270 shares, Berger Paints ended $1.50 higher at $20, with 71,216 stock units, Cable & Wireless concluded trading with a loss of 4 cents at $1.21, with 109,384 units, Carreras finished at $10.95, with 54,081 shares, Caribbean Cement settled $1 higher at $36, with 359,865 shares. Ciboney Group ended trading at $0.10, with 658,995 shares, Grace Kennedy traded 25 cents higher at $44.25, with 4,213 stock units, Jamaica Broilers finished trading at $18.98, with 158,864 units, Jamaica Producers closed with a loss of 40 cents at $15.10, with 5,232 shares. Jamaica Stock Exchange ended 55 cents higher at $7, with 4,150 shares, JMMB Group concluded trading $1 higher at $26, with 29,850 shares, Kingston Wharves settled with a loss of 60 cents at $42, with 46,183 units, Mayberry Investments ended trading 29 cents higher at $5.01, with 5,100 shares. NCB Financial Group traded 95 cents higher at $100, with 31,179 shares,138 Student Living ended at $5.50, with 100 shares changing hands, PanJam Investment ended at $41, with 4,880 units, Portland JSX Fund concluded trading with a loss of 22 cents at $10, with 2,000 shares, Radio Jamaica settled with a loss of 1 cent at $1.09, with 45,953 shares. Sagicor Group ended trading 50 cents higher at $37.50, with 68,614 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended trading at $16, after hitting an intraday all-time high of $17, with 24,139 shares trading. Salada Foods traded $1 higher at $11.50, with 50,000 units, Scotia Group finished trading with a loss of $1 at $52, with 39,787 shares, Sterling Investments ended at $13, with 3,240 shares. Supreme Ventures concluded trading at $11.95, with 21,100 stock units, Victoria Mutual Investments finished 7 cents higher at $4.46, with 247,305 units, Wisynco Group settled $1.19 higher at $11.49, with 3,266,124 shares and In the main market preference segment, JMMB Group closed a 52 weeks’ low of 85 cents higher after losing 15 cents, with 70,332 shares 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 “”JSE majors in month end jump – Wednesday.

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Most stock prices unchanged on TTSE – Wednesday

February 28, 2018 by

Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Wednesday with 374,321 shares valued at $3,174,202 trading, compared to 318,277 shares valued at $4,465,418 on Tuesday.
The market closed with the prices of 2 stocks rising, 4 declining and 8 remaining unchanged with trading in 14 securities against 16 on Tuesday. At close the Composite Index rose 0.58 points to 1,700.23, the All T&T Index added 0.23 points to 1,699.65, while the Cross Listed Index shed 0.01 points to close at 113.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, on Tuesday, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 5 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
Gains| Massy Holdings concluded trading 20 cents and settled at $47.50, with 615 stock units changing hands and Scotiabank added 14 cents and ended at $61.90, trading 500 shares.
Losses| Clico Investments lost 25 cents and concluded at $19.75, with 8,950 units, First Citizens ended trading 1 cent lower and completed at $32.11, trading 7,762 shares, National Enterprises concluded trading with a loss of 2 cents and concluded at $9.65, with 3,000 units and Sagicor Financial traded with a loss of 1 cent and concluded at $7.82, with 5,000 units.
Firm Traded| Angostura Holdings settled at $15.67, with 200 stock units changing hands., First Caribbean International Bank ended at $9.30, trading 114,176 shares, Grace Kennedy concluded at $3.35, with 67,009 units, JMMB Group settled at $1.91, with 4,200 stock units changing hands. NCB Financial Group completed at $6.53, trading 152,927 shares. Prestige Holdings ended at $10.01, trading 1,000 shares, Republic Financial Holdings settled at $101.50, with 944 stock units changing hands and Trinidad & Tobago NGL completed trading at $27.11, with 8,038 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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50% premium for JMMB shares on TTSE

February 27, 2018 by

JMMB Group closed on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Tuesday at $1.91, around J$36, a huge premium of approximately 50 percent to the price in Jamaica of $25. At the close, there was no stock on offer, the bid ended at $1.91 to buy 70,000 units.
Demand for the stock is flowing from a strong 39 percent rise in the investment house third quarter profits to December last year.
Market activity, closed with a mere 318,277 shares valued at $4,465,418 trading, compared to 1,126,271 units with a valued of $14,736,676 on Monday.
The market closed with 5 stocks rising, 3 declining and 8 remaining unchanged with trading in 16 securities against 12 on Monday. At close the Composite Index rose 1.09 points on Tuesday to 1,268.56, the All T&T Indexadded 0.23 points to 1,699.65, while the Cross Listed Index gained 0.27 points to close at 113.01.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, on Monday, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Gains| First Citizens rose 1 cent and settled at $32.12, trading 2,425 shares, JMMB Group closed with a gain of 6 cents and concluded market activities at $1.91, with 30,000 stock units changing hands. National Enterprises gained 2 cents and ended at $9.67, with 43,089 units changing hands, Prestige Holdings finished trading with a gain of 1 cent to $10.01, in exchanging 5,000 shares and Sagicor Financial rose 1 cent and ended at $7.83, with 10,833 units.
Losses| Republic Financial Holdings fell 2 cents and concluded trading at $101.50, with 12,547 stock units changing hands, Trinidad & Tobago NGL share fell 1 cent and settled at $27.11, trading 3,000 shares and Unilever Caribbean shed 1 cent and ended at $29, with 18,629 units changing hands.
Firm Traded| Angostura Holdings concluded trading at $15.67, with 3,000 stock units changing hands, Ansa Mcal ended at $60, with 4,225 units, Clico Investments closed at $20, with 5,664 units, First Caribbean International Bank completed market activities at $9.30, trading 121,000 shares, Guardian Holdings ended at $16.50, exchanging 1,300 shares. LJ Williams B share settled at 75 cents, after trading 4,065 units, National Flour closed at $1.86, trading 6,227 shares and NCB Financial Group settled at $6.53, with 47,273 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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JSE trading jumps higher on Monday

February 27, 2018 by

Main Market activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange picked up sharply on Monday, ending with more than twice the volume and value of trading on Friday as 9,756,068 units valued at over $152,399,537 changed hands versus 4,322,228 units valued at over $69,892,327 Friday.
Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market activity ended with 27 securities traded ending with 9 securities rising, 10 falling, 8 trading firm, leading to market indices to just eking out a moderate fall. The JSE All Jamaican Composite Index fell by 296.85 points to 318,961.81 and the JSE Index lost 270.46 points to 290,610.27.
In the main market activity, Berger Paints ended 50 cents higher at $17.75, with 8,158 stock units, Cable & Wireless concluded trading 14 cents higher at $1.39, with 1,106,514 units, Carreras finished $10.85 higher at $10.85, with 539,399 shares, Caribbean Cement settled $1.45 higher at $33, with 50,831 shares, Ciboney Group ended trading at 10 cents, with 1,199,900 shares. Grace Kennedy traded 51 cents higher at $43.51, with 545,333 stock units, Jamaica Broilers finished trading at $18.55, with 905,895 units, Jamaica Producers closed with a loss of 14 cents at $15.01, with 1,748,275 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with a loss of 55 cents at $6.45, with 750 shares. JMMB Group concluded trading 40 cents higher at $25, with 20,794 shares, Kingston Wharves settled with a loss of 15 cents at $42.45, with 674 units, Mayberry Investments ended trading 10 cents higher at $4.85, with 1,200 shares, NCB Financial Group traded with a loss of 1.02 cents at $98.97, with 11,830 shares. 1834 Investments finished trading with a loss of 8 cents at $1.20, with 11,000 shares, Palace Amusement closed at $560, with 100 stock units, PanJam Investment ended 25 cents higher at $41, with 670 units, Pulse Investments finished with a loss of 19 cents at $1.80, with 28,096 shares. Radio Jamaica settled 5 cents higher at $1.10, with 1,141,002 shares, Sagicor Group ended trading with a loss of 54 cents at $36.01, with 1,912,055 stock units and Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended trading at $14.50, with 5,150 shares Scotia Group finished trading with a loss of 50 cents at $53, with 6,955 shares, Seprod closed at $29.05, with 2,879 shares. Supreme Ventures concluded trading with a loss of 20 cents at $11.70, with 75,366 stock units, Victoria Mutual Investments finished with a loss of 9 cents at $4.30, with 141,829 units and Wisynco Group settled 10 cents higher at $10.50, with 96,567 shares. In the main market preference segment, Jamaica Money Market traded with a loss of 5 cents at $1.95, with 9,365 stock units, JMMB Group closed with a loss of 2 cents at $1, with 55,500 shares, 138 Student Living ended with a loss of 60 cents at $5.40, with 129,981 shares 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 “JSE main market fell on Monday.”

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TTSE suffers fall in indices – Monday

February 26, 2018 by

Guardian Group fell 50 cents as NCB Financial offer to buy up 62% of the Insurance group lapses.

Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange ended on Monday with trading in 12 securities against 17 on Friday, The market closed with 1 stock rising, 2 declining and 9 remaining unchanged.
At close of the market the, Composite Index shed 1.24 points on Monday to 1,267.47, the All T&T Indexfell 2.15 points to 1,699.42, while the Cross Listed Index declined 0.04 points lower to close at 112.74.
Trading ended with 283,184 shares at a value of $14,736,676, compared to 1,126,271 shares at a value of $14,736,676.
IC bid-offer Indicator| IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, on Friday, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 6 stocks with bids lower than their last selling prices and 4 with lower offers.
Gains| Trinidad & Tobago NGL rose 2 cents and ended at $27.12, trading 12,050 shares.
Losses| Guardian Holdings shares fell 50 cents in concluding trading at $16.50, with 409 shares as the NCB Financial offer to buy majority shares in the group lapsed and One Caribbean Media closed with a loss of 2 cents at $12.48, after 250 stock units changed hands.
Firm Traded| Clico Investments settled at $20, with 12,755 units, First Caribbean International Bank concluded trading at $9.30, with 62,574 shares changing hands, First Citizens ended at $32.11, exchanging 3,363 shares, Grace Kennedy settled at $3.35, with 15,000 units, LJ Williams A share closed at 22 cents, trading 10,273 shares. Massy Holdings ended at $47.30, with 3,390 stock units changing hands. National Enterprises settled at $9.65, with 179 units, NCB Financial Group ended at $6.53, trading 168,678 shares, Republic Financial Holdings completed trading at $101.52, with 150 stock units changing hands and Scotiabank concluded market activity at $61.76, trading 4,386 shares.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.

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JSE main market fell on Friday

February 23, 2018 by

The Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed down on Friday, with JSE All Jamaican Composite Index falling 776.18 points to 319,258.66 and the JSE Index declining by 707.19 points to 290,880.73.
Trading on Friday closed 28 securities changing hands with 10 advancing, 10 declining and 8 trading firm in the main and US dollar markets.
The securities with the largest price changes include, Caribbean Cement with a fall of $1.45 to $31.55, Grace Kennedy with a loss of $1.20 to $43, Salada Foods climbing $1 to $12, Scotia Group that rose by $1.50 to $53.50 and Seprod losing 94 cents to end at $29.05.
Main market activity ended with 4,322,228 units valued at $69,892,327 in contrast to 2,690,310 shares valued at $52,093,635 on Thursday. Ciboney Group accounted for 1,385,481 units and 32 percent of total volume traded, followed by Jamaica Broilers Group accounting for 21 percent of volume traded with 904,680 units changing hands and Sagicor Group with 293,843 units or 6.8 percent.
Trading results in an average of 160,083 shares valued at $2,588,605 for each security traded, in contrast to 92,769 shares valued at $1,796,332 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 204,802 units valued at $3,183,567 and previously, 207,617 units valued at $3,223,626. In contrast, January closed with average of 349,084 units at an average of $5,801,440 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 10 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 with lower offers.
Traded in the US dollar market ended with Proven Investments trading 667,350 shares at 21.99 US cents with a value of US$146,425 as the market index rose 1.03 points to 168.18.
For more details of market activities see – JSE trading picks up on Friday.

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