An equal number of stocks trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday with gains versus those falling but the main market indices ended up from Monday’s close.
At the close of trading, 36 securities changed hands in the main and US dollar markets with 15 advancing, 15 declining and 6 traded firm. Trading ended with the All Jamaican Composite Index climbing 1,858.93 points to close at 562,952.77, the JSE Index gaining 1,709.62 points to 512,237 and the JSE Financial Index added 0.90 points to close at 140.01.
Market activity ended with 22,990,176 units valued at $375,090,753 in contrast to 18,599,441 units valued at $235,193,270 on Monday.
Wigton Windfarm dominated trading with 11.6 million shares for 50 percent of total volume, followed by Sagicor Select Funds with 4.3 million units accounting for 19 percent of the day’s trade, Grace Kennedy with 3.4 million shares for 15 percent of the market’s trades.
The Market closed with an average of 696,672 units valued at an average of $11,366,386 for each security traded, in contrast to 531,413 units valued at an average of $6,719,808 on Monday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 1,048,146 units valued at $9,679,760 and previously an average of 1,067,905 units valued at $9,578,929 for each security traded. The market closed out August with an average of 1,743,431 units valued at $9,907,963 for each security traded.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 11 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 with lower offers.
In main market activity, Berger gained 55 cents to close at $19.55 after trading 5,368 units, Carib Cement exchanged 41,250 units and dropped 50 cents to close at $80, Carreras ended at $8.50 with gains of 55 cents, after 62,773 units changed hands, Eppley Caribbean Property dipped by $1, in closing at $37, after exchanging 19,580 shares. Grace Kennedy closed 75 cents lower to settle at $69 trading 3,454,590 shares, Jamaica Broilers ended at $36.99, having added 99 cents with 169,631 shares changing hands, Jamaica Producers gained $1 and settling at $24.50 with an exchange of 35,826 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange climbed 99 cents with 174,403 shares crossing the exchange to end at $26.50. JMMB Group plummeted $4 to $42 after exchanging 730,378 shares, Kingston Wharves recovered $3.20 of the $8 loss incurred on Monday to end at $55.20 in trading 7,514 shares. Mayberry Jamaican Equities closed at $11.50, after losing 90 cents trading 6,858 shares, NCB Financial advanced $6.90 to settle at $214.90 with the swapping of 84,773 units, PanJam Investment gained $1.50, ending at $104 after exchanging 10,425 shares, Portland JSX closed at $8.50, with gains of 50 cents after trading 22.200 share. Proven Investments added 31 cents to end the day’s trade at $37.80 with 74,758 shares changing hands, Pulse Investments traded 59 cents higher to close at $3.64, after exchanging 27,500 shares, Sagicor Group climbed $2 higher to settle at $69 in trading 87,700 shares, Scotia Group gained 50 cents to end at $58 exchanging 303,352 shares. Seprod ended the day’s trade $1.40 lower to settle at $53 with 27,451 units changing hands, Supreme Ventures lost 50 cents to close at $26.50 exchanging 454,549 shares and Wisynco lost 40 cents, settling at $23 with trades of 308,695 units.
Trading in the US dollar market ended with 27,910 units valued at over US$7,549 with the market index gaining 0.15 points to close at 200.01. Proven Investments traded 24,700 shares to close at 26 US cents, Sygnus Credit Investments closed at 14 US cents after 2,851 shares traded and JMMB Group 5.75% preference shares traded 359 shares to close at US$2.
IC TOP 10 relatively stable
The Jamaica stock market was impacted last week by fresh share insurances and acquisitions by two IC TOP 10 listed companies.
Investors’ attention was on pumping funds into Barita Investments’ rights issue and QWI Investments’ initial public offering in the past week and led to more muted market activity, with the latter attracting more than 4,000 investors and in excess of $1.5 billion.
Other major developments in the past week were the announcement that TOP 10 BUY RATED General Accident picked up 55 percent of the Trinidad based Motor One Insurance company but investors hardly seem to notice. Another Top 10 listing, Jamaica Broilers announced yet another takeover of a poultry processing plant in the USA. Market activity in the coming week will be further affected with Proven Investments selling half of their holdings in Access Financial stock by way of a public offer, at an attractive price of $32 each. Market conditions resulted in just two changes to IC TOP 10 BUY RATED list as CAC 2000 returned to the top 10 Junior Market list, replacing Caribbean Cream and Scotia Group moved back into the main market listing at the expense of Seprod.
Changes in prices left Caribbean Producers with projected gains of 233 percent, followed Iron Rock by with likely gains of 201 percent and tTech with projected gains of 167 percent as the three most attractive Junior Market stocks.
Radio Jamaica closed the week with projected gains of 163 percent as the leading main market stock with the price falling to $1.90 by the end of the week. Berger Paints sits at the number two spot with projected gains of 121 percent as more interest comes in for this stock coupled with reduced selling ahead of the most important quarter coming up when sales exceed all other quarters and Carreras with projected gains of 112 percent.
The main market, closed the week with the overall PE of 16.7 down from 17.7 the previous week and the Junior Market is down to 11.3 from 11.6 based on current year’s earnings. The PE ratio for Junior Market Top 10 stocks averages 7.8 compared to 7.7 the previous week and the main market PE slips to 10.4. These levels of PE ratios point to big upside for TOP 10 stocks.
The TOP 10 stocks now trade at an average discount of 31 percent to the average for the Junior Market Top stocks and main market stocks trade at a discount of 38 percent to the overall market.
TOP 10 stocks are likely to deliver the best returns to March next year. Projected earnings, along with the PE ratio for each company’s current fiscal year are used in determining potential gains. The likely gains are ranked in descending order, with the highest-ranked being the most attractive and moving down the least attractive. Potential values will change as stock prices fluctuate and will result in movements of the selection in and out of the lists for most weeks. Earnings per share are revised on an ongoing basis as new information is received that can result in changes in and out of the list.
This report is compiled by persons who may have an interest in the securities commented on.
IC TOP 10 MPC hits new record high
Prices pulled back during the past week but the new IC TOP 10 BUY RATED main market stocks MPC Caribbean Energy surged to an all-time high of $153.06 and is still in the TOP 10 and seems poised to move higher with no sellers in sight.
Seprod returns and Scotia Group moved out to be the only changes to the main market list. Jetcon Corporation, Caribbean Cream and Caribbean Flavours return to the Junior Market TOP 10 replacing CAC 2000, Dolphin Cove and Jamaican Teas.
The three most attractive Junior Market stocks are Iron Rock with projected gains of 257 percent, followed by Caribbean Producers with likely gains of 237 percent and tTech with projected gains of 208 percent.
Radio Jamaica closed the week with projected gains of 138 percent as the leading main market stock followed by Berger Paints with projected gains of 132 and Carreras with projected gains of 112 percent.
The main market, closed the week with the overall PE of 17.7 down from 18.3 the previous week and the Junior Market is down to 11.6 from 12.1 based on current year’s earnings. The PE ratio for Junior Market Top 10 stocks averages 7.7 compared to 8.4 the previous week and the main market PE is now 10.5. These levels of PE ratios point to big upside for TOP 10 stocks.
The TOP 10 stocks now trade at an average discount of 33 percent to the average for the Junior Market Top stocks and main market stocks trade at a discount of 41 percent to the overall market.
TOP 10 stocks are likely to deliver the best returns to March next year. Projected earnings, for each company’s current fiscal year, are used in determining, the selected stocks. The PE for and projected earnings for each stock are computed to show potential gains for the year, which are ranked in descending order. Potential values will change as stock prices fluctuate and will result in movements of the selection in and out of the lists for most weeks. Earnings per share are revised on an ongoing basis as new information is received that can result in changes in and out of the list.
This report is compiled by persons who may have an interest in the securities commented on.