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Junior Market trades double

September 7, 2017 by IC Insider.com

KLE Group traded more than 2.,2m shares on Thursday.

Trading on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Thursday increase strongly over Wednesday’s levels, with 4,140,205 units valued at $15,416,896 changing hands twice the 1,873,051 units valued at $7,839,269 on Wednesday.
At the close of market activities, 25 securities changed hands, of which 10 securities advanced, 13 declined and 2 remained with the prices unchanged, resulting in the market index slipping 26.31 points to 3,079.61.
Trading ended with an average of 165,608 units for an average of $616,676 in contrast to 74,922 units for an average of $313,571 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 163,397 units valued at $662,667, on Wednesday the average trade for the month to date was 162,844 units valued at $674,165. In contrast, August closed with average of 234,437 units valued at $1,295,260 for each security traded.
Trading ended with the market sentiments looking mixed for Wednesday activity as 4 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 1 with lower offers.
At the close of the market, the volume of stocks changing hands and their last traded price are: Access Financial finished with a loss of $2 to $47 with 5,764 stock units changing hands, AMG Packaging conclude trading 20 cents higher at $3.50 with 30,868 stocks, Blue Power closing with a loss of 40 cents at $44.50, with 528 shares, C2W Music concluded market activity with a loss of 8 cents to 50 cents with 90,000 units traded. CAC 2000 closed with a loss of 60 cents, at $7.45 with 12,031 stock units, Cargo Handlers concluded at $10.40 with 3,040 shares, Caribbean Cream traded 30 cents higher at $6.30 with 66,200 shares, Caribbean Flavours closed with a loss of $1.15 at $11.80 with a mere 471 units, Caribbean Producers ended 10 cents higher at $4 with 10,000 stocks, Derrimon Trading finished with a loss of $1 at $7 with 30,382 shares, Express Catering traded 30 cents higher at $4.80 with 96,468 units, Honey Bun traded 40 cents higher at $4.55 with 33,174 shares, Iron Rock closed with a loss of 1 cents, at $2.89 with 30,227 shares, ISP Finance climbed $1 to $20 with 1,500 shares, Jamaican Teas finished with a loss of 48 cents, at $4.52 with 105,144 stock units, Jetcon Corporation settled 15 cents higher at $4.45 with 309,650 shares, KLE Group ended with a loss of 23 cents, at $3 with 2,221,500 shares, Knutsford Express traded 1 cents higher at $15 with 140,032 units, Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 5 cents, at $6.85 with 51,696 shares, Lasco Financial fell 35 cents t0 $3.35 with 501,500 shares, Lasco Manufacturing finished 10 cents higher at $4.20 with 103,397 shares, Main Event closed with a loss of 65 cents, at $4.35 with 126,593 shares, Paramount Trading concluded trading with a loss of 5 cents, at $2.90 with 5,000 stock units, Stationery and Office closed 50 cents higher at $5 with 153,232 units trading and tTech ended 25 cents higher at $7.25 with 11,808 shares.

Filed Under: Feature Stories, JSE Junior Market, Stock Market Tagged With: Access Financial, AMG Packaging, Blue Power, C2W Music, CAC2000, Caribbean Flavours, Caribbean Producers, Consolidated Bakeries, Daily Trading, Derrimon Trading, Emerging markets, Express Catering, Honey Bun, ISP Finance Services, Jamaican stocks, Jamaican Teas, Jetcon Corporation, Knutsford Express, Lasco Distributors, Lasco Financial, Lasco Manufacturing, Main Event, Medical Disposables, Stationery and Office, Trading Activity, tTech

Big gains for 2016 IPOS

June 26, 2017 by IC Insider.com

I$P Finance is up 1,100% since listing in March 2016 but hit an all time high of $35 earlier this year to be up 1,650% at that time.

Initial Public listings have been very popular in the Jamaican stock market. Most of them enjoyed strong gains within a few years of issue.
Investors have bought heavily into most of the issues resulting in most closing on the first day of the issue.
No doubt investors will be avidly awaiting issues to come in the second half of this year. Expecting this week is Productivity Business Solution IPO should be available of subscription in the first week of July and Express Catering should be coming pretty soon as well.
A series of others should be following later in 2017 and in 2018 with Stationery and Supplies expected to follow shortly after the above two, as they iron out a few issues before coming to market, while UCC Online still has issues to resolve. Others that have been recently mentioned publicly and a few that have not yet made public statements, should add to the excitement when they do make it and swell the choices available in the market for ongoing investment.
How have recent IPOS done since listing? Stocks sold to the publish and listed since the start of 2016 had mixed fortunes, with startup entities delivering little gains with one trading lower than the IPO price but four have gained 200 percent or more including one with more than 1,000 percent, one rising 64 percent and one with 34 percent, up to last Friday.
Little known micro finance company, ISP Finance gained a stunning 1,100 percent, since listing in March 2016. Pre-owned car dealer, Jetcon Corporation is up with gains of 687 percent since March last year with information technology, company tTech coming in with gains of 220 percent.
Portland JSX Fund lost 18 percent, while start up general insurance company, Iron Rock is up just 7 percent. All stocks traded at higher prices than the closing ones on Friday.

Filed Under: Company News, General Business News, Initial Public Offers Tagged With: Express Catering, Iron Rock, ISP Finance Services, Jetcon Corporation, Portland JSX Fund, Productive Business Solutions, Stationery and Supplies, tTech, UCC Online

Broilers and Kremi now TOP 10ers

February 18, 2017 by IC Insider.com

The past week saw much changes in the main and junior markets as prices gyrated up and down, for several of the stocks. Some of the highly valued stocks, declined in value as some investors took profit from the sharp rise since the start of 2017, for a number of stocks.
In the TOP 10 junior market selection, Caribbean Flavours (CFF) rose 24 percent to $12.44 during the week and moved out of the list, with the bid at $12.50, making space for Caribbean Cream, now occupying ninth spot. CFF sits just outside the top tier of junior market stocks and could well reenter at the end of next week. ISP Finance moved to a new high of $10.10 on the bid, having traded during the week at record high of $10 and no longer sits on the number 1 spot. Key Insurance suffered a setback with a big 2016 fourth quarter loss of $136 million, coming from increased insurance claim provisioning of $433 million for the quarter and $1 billion for the full year. Hopefully, that is now behind them, clearing the way for 2017 to deliver what the company seems capable of doing. tTech pulled back in price, to sit at a more comfortable $7, after some selling came in for the stock. Access Financial climbed to a new all-time high of $35, helped by strong nine months results and lack of supply of stocks for sale.
Scotia Investments climbed to $41.19 during the week, from $38 the previous week and exited the TOP 10 main market stocks. The move made space for Jamaica Broilers that lost value during the past week, falling from $16.25 at the start of the week, down to a more attractive $14.50, with an increased forecast of $2 earnings per share for the 2018 fiscal year starting May, this year. The week saw more interest in Radio Jamaica and JMMB Group, the latter trading at $23 on Friday, but closed lower by the end of trading, helped by net profit rising 55 percent to $2.68 billion, for the nine months to December last year. Earnings per share for the nine months came out at $1.63 and 39 cents for the December quarter.

Filed Under: Buy Rated, Feature Stories Tagged With: Caribbean Flavours, ISP Finance Services, Jamaica Broilers, Jamaican Stock, Jamaican stocks, JMMB Group, junior market, Key Insurance, Kremi, Radio Jamaica, Scotia, Scotia Investments, tTech

Healthy 2017 gains for Jamaican stocks – Jackson

January 30, 2017 by IC Insider.com

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ISP now leads the top 10 stock predictions for the rest 2017 for junior market companies, according to John Jackson of IC Insider.com in his address to the JSE Capital Markets Conference, last week.
Jackson presented his TOP 10 listings of both junior and main market companies with Barita Investments heading the main market stocks, that should be the best performing stock for the rest of 2017.
“There are some potential good winners in the list. I am not saying that all will necessarily be winners but I expect to see some spectacular performances,” he told the conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston on Thursday.
Overall the price to earnings ratio (PE) for the junior market will climb but still offer value for money, he said.
“PEs at 20 times earnings will become the norm, once interest rates remain low. I am quite positive that they will. Based on what is happening now on the economic front, interest rates are going to go even lower, along with stability in the exchange rate,” he said.

Barita is one of the top IC Insider’s stock for growth over the next 12 months in the main market.

Few stocks however are trading at 30 and 40 times earnings. Those stocks need to be viewed with some amount caution with the average market PE well below these levels.
The gains in 2017 will come from strong earnings and investor demand pushing the price up even higher. Jackson said that the main changes in the market for 2016 over 2015 were the rising PE multiples.
“Things have substantially changed. The PE has risen with the average for the junior market at 15 and the main market is 11 to 12 times earnings based on 2016 earnings. It was about six times earnings a year ago,” he said.
The junior market has been running at roughly twice the pace of the main market. That has gone on for some time due to the fast growth nature of the junior companies, he said.

Filed Under: Buy Rated, JSE Combined, Stock Market Tagged With: Barita Investments, ISP Finance Services, Jamaica Stock Exchange, Jamaican Stock, JSE Capital Markets Conference, junior market

ISP $150M arsenal for expansion

September 19, 2016 by IC Insider.com

ISP Finance got the money to expand lending

ISP Finance raised $150 million it sought from a bond offering paying interest at 10 percent. The issue that was scheduled to close on September 22 but was closed one week earlier. An announcement issued on the morning of September 16 by the brokers VM Wealth Management stated that the Secured Public Bond Offering of ISP Finance Services was fully subscribed and is now closed.
The bonds provide an arsenal funds that will allow for a major expansion of the company’s loan portfolio at a huge spread. At the end of December 2015, the company’s loan portfolio, before loan loss provision stood at $304 million and grew marginally to J$305 million at the end of June. After loan loss provision of $70 million, it stood at $234 million as of June this year versus $241 million at December and is up from the $225 million at the end of March 2016. The new funds should aid in a major increase in lending and should result in as welling of profits. In addition to these fresh cash injection, the company will have funds generated from profits to lend as well.
The Company will apply to the Jamaica Stock Exchange to list the bonds.

Filed Under: Company News, General Business News Tagged With: ISP Finance Services, Jamaica Stock Exchange, VM Wealth Management

Juniors regain Monday’s losses

August 16, 2016 by IC Insider.com

Trading levels climbed from Monday’s low level at 10:45 am with several stocks trading over 50,000 units with JJMB Group trading nearly 3 million units.
JSE Intra - 16-08-16 Stocks trading at a new 52 weeks’ high are Cargo Handlers at $72.02, ISP Finance Services at $5.22. Other noticeable trades include Cable & Wireless with 105,961 units at $1.15, Caribbean Producers with 50,000 units at $3.20, Honey Bun traded 75,372 shares at $5.53, JMMB Group traded 2,537,927 units at $9.87, JMMB Group 7.50% preference share traded 87,835 units at $1.10, Jetcon Corporation with 48,827 units at $3, Lasco Distributors with 217,361 shares at $6.55, Lasco Manufacturing with 665,561 units at $5, Sagicor Group had 170,700 units at $21.50.
The market indices all fell in the main and junior markets, with 11 stocks gaining versus 11 that fell.
At 10:45 am 34 securities traded, resulting in a volume of 4,210,256 shares changing hands. The average number of shares traded amounts to 123,831 units compared to 43,230 units on Monday.
The all Jamaica Composite Index dropped 703.50 points to 177,756.10, the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index fell 629.05 points to 159,987.33, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index climbed 256.95 points to close at 171,363.46 points and the junior market index gained 81.91 points to 2,238.13.