Stanley Motta shares were recently listed on the Main Market Jamaica Stock Exchange in late August after a successful initial public offering (IPO), which raised $4 billion for the Musson Jamaica, the sellers of the shares.
Investors were given the opportunity to be a part property rental business located at 58 Half-Way-Tree Road next door to New Kingston, the country’s premier business centre. The IPO which opened July 6 and closed on July 20, attracted just under 1,000 investors and is one of the issues since 2018 with the lowest number of investors who bought into the issue. That is not surprising as the issue was geared to long term investors. Since listing the stock that was sold at $5.31 has fallen in price and last traded at $4.60 but could well increase significantly, as it now boast a PE ratio of just 10 at the latest price.
58 Half Way Tree Road, boasts five buildings with more than 230,000 square feet of office space for BPOs and other technology-based companies.
Under 1,000 investors bought Stanley Motta
Record August close for JSE main market
JSE main market broke through the 360,000 points level and now heading for 380,000 before any major resistance is likely to set in.
The Jamaica Stock Exchange main market ended August on a high and a 14.2 percent gain for the first 8 months of the year. The market chalked up no less than 8 record highs on the final day of the month and ended at a new closing high.
The market closed with the All Jamaican Composite Index surged 6,899.76 points to end at 361,566.65 and the JSE Index jumped 6,286.47 points to 329,428.09.
Market activities resulted in 34 securities trading including 3 in the US dollar market compared to 30 securities trading on Thursday. At the end of trading, the prices of 18 stocks rose, 9 declined and 7 closed trading, unchanged.
Trading in the main market ended with 8,271,949 units valued at $100,951,929, compared to 11,133,718 units valued at $276,180,979 on Thursday. The day’s volume was led by, Sygnus Credit Investments with 2,997,650 shares accounting for 36.24 percent of the volume traded, followed by WISYNCO Group with 1,451,195 units and 17.54 percent of the day’s volume and JMMB Group 7.50% preference share with 921,715 units and 11.14 percent of main market volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 266,837 units valued at over $3,256,514, in contrast to 383,921 shares valued at $9,523,482 on Thursday. For the month to date an average of 224,564 shares valued at $4,310,285 versus 222,224 units valued at $4,137,703 on Thursday. July closed with an average of 169,022 units valued at $3,514,756, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Berger Paints rose 50 cents and ended at $21.50, trading just 300 stock units, Caribbean Cement jumped $3.50 to finish at $50 while trading 88,250 shares, Grace Kennedy ended trading 221,853 shares and rose $1 to close at $60, Jamaica Broilers lost 90 cents in trading 10,639 stock units at $26.10, Kingston Wharves lost $1.20 and finished at $61.80, after trading at a historical high of $65 in exchanging 55,088 stock units, NCB Financial Group declined by $1 to end trading 16,305 shares at $112 after trading at a new record high of $115, PanJam Investment jumped $2.70 and closed at $55 with 52,511 stock units changing hands, Pulse Investments concluded trading 3,947 shares at $2.80, after rising 40 cents, Sagicor Group gained $1 in exchanging 28,332 shares, to close at $39.05, 
Sagicor Real Estate Fund rose $1.50 and settled at $12.50, trading 770,200 shares, Scotia Group traded 21,049 units and rose 50 cents to end at $53, Seprod climbed $2 and finished trading 2,100 shares to end at $45, Sygnus Credit Investments traded 1,451,195 units and rose 50 cents to close at $12, Wisynco Group concluded trading 1,451,195 stock units, rising 54 cents to end at $9.49.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 60,399 units valued US$13,825. Trading ended with Productivity Business ended trading 15,376 shares at 59 US cents, Proven Investments exchanging 3,000 shares to close at 23 US centsSygnus Credit Investments traded 42,023 shares and lost 0.06 cent to 11 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index unchanged at 173.74.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 7 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 closing with lower offers.
Junior Market up 19% for 2018 – Friday
Trading picked up on the Junior Market with 30 securities being active up from 27 on Thursday leading to 14 advancing, 8 declining and 8 remained unchanged.
The market closed with the market index rising 32.89 points to close at 3,250.47, lifting the market 5.5 percent for August and 19 percent for the year to date. A volume of 4,503,036 units valued at $56,383,723 hanged hands, compared to 3,136,408 units valued at $17,262,540, on Thursday. The stocks with the leading trades were Caribbean Flavours, Caribbean Producers and Derrimon Trading with more than a million units each.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 8 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, none closed with a lower offer.
Trading closed with an average of 150,101 units for an average of $1,879,457 in contrast to 116,163 units for an average of $639,353 on Thursday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 244,613 units at $1,348,298, compared to 254,559 units at $1,270,673 on the previous trading day. Trading in July, averaged 154,060 units valued at $655,146 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, Access Financial traded 483 shares and closed 32 cents higher at $43.32, AMG Packaging gained 3 cents to end at $1.93, trading 5,976 stock units, Blue Power concluded trading at $5, with 14,091 units changing hands, Cargo Handlers ended 50 cents higher to close at $12.50, trading 7,520 stock units, Caribbean Cream settled 40 cents higher at $5.70, exchanging 50,000 shares, Caribbean Flavours ended trading with a loss of 1 cent at $18, with 1,108,594 shares changing hands. Caribbean Producers traded 1,265,538 shares with a loss of 30 cents at $6.50, Derrimon Trading closed 50 cents higher at $24, exchanging 1,031,000 shares, Dolphin Cove finished with 8,090 shares changing hands and rose 50 cents to $17, Elite Diagnostic ended with a loss of 9 cents at $3.01, trading 31,215 shares, Everything Fresh fell 2 cents in trading 250,585 shares to end at $2.10, Express Catering concluded trading 13,125 shares and rose 17 cents to close at $8.18. FosRich Group finished at $2.99, with 3,000 stock units changing hands, General Accident settled with a loss of 65 cents at $3.80, with 103,000 units traded,
GWest Corporation ended trading 10,000 shares, with a loss of 6 cents to $2.12, Honey Bun traded with a loss of 13 cents at $4.30, exchanging 67,455 shares. Indies Pharma traded 867,462 shares but fell 10 cents to end at $2.60, Iron Rock finished trading with a loss of 5 cents at $3.20, in exchanging 37,200 shares, ISP Finance closed $4 higher at $20, with 1,367 stock units changing hands, Jamaican Teas ended 21 cents higher at $4.20, with 33,821 unit being traded, Knutsford Express closed 10 cents higher at $12.60, with 20,000 shares changing hands, Jetcon Corporation concluded trading of 11,676 shares at $4.02, KLE Group settled at $3.30, with 1,400 shares trading, Lasco Distributors ended trading 15 cents higher at $4.05, with 2,595 stock units changing hands, Lasco Financial traded at $5.80, with 22,192 units, Lasco Manufacturing finished trading with a loss of 10 cents at $3.90, while exchanging 21,200 shares. Main Event closed at $7.11, with 23,654 shares changing hands, Medical Disposables climbed $1.58 higher to $6.68, with 32,868 shares, Stationery and Office finished 35 cents higher at $8.50, exchanging 19,132 units and tTech ended trading 30 cents higher at $5.50, as 73,800 shares changed hands.
All Jamaica leaps to record 363,496
The Jamaica Stock Exchange continues to scale new heights on the last trading day of August as the bulls take control of the market. At midday the All Jamaican Composite Index has surged more than 8,829 points to pass 363,000 points.
The All Jamaican Composite Index has jumped 8,829.47 points to an intraday high 363,496.38 and the JSE Index surged 8,044.65 points to a record 331,186.28. The Junior Market index rose 36.05 points to 3,253.63.
NCB Financial had jumped earlier to a record $115 from a close of $113 on Thursday, to make the first big move on the index, but Caribbean Cement climbed to $50 from $46.50 on Thursday, Sagicor Group rose from $38.05 to $39.75 while Kingston Wharves jumped from $63 to a record $65 and helped push sharply higher beyond the 363,000 mark.
In the Junior Market, Derrimon Trading having just over 1 million shares trading at $24 and Caribbean Producers traded 1.26 million shares at $6.50.
All Jamaica leaps 7,789 points to cross 362,000
The All Jamaican Composite Index has surged more than 7,789 points at 20 minutes past 11 am on Friday morning on the Jamaica Stock Exchange to break through the 362,000 points mark.
NCB Financial had jumped earlier to a record $115 from a close of $113 on Thursday, to make the first big move on the index, but Caribbean cement climbed to $50 from $46.50 on Thursday, Sagicor Group rose from $38.05 to $39.75 and helped push sharply higher beyond the 362,000 mark.
The All Jamaican Composite Index has jumped 7,789.19 to an intraday high 362,456.10 and the JSE Index surged 7,096.83 points to a record 330,238.46. The Junior Market index rose 35.93 points to 3,253.51 with Derrimon Trading having just over 1 million shares trading at $24 and Caribbean Producers traded 1.25 million shares at $6.50.
NCB pushes All Jamaica to record 359,696 points
NCB Financial jumped to a record $115 on modest volume and helped push the Jamaica Stock Exchange sharply higher in early trading on Friday to reach another record high.
Within just 17 minutes after the market opened, the All Jamaican Composite Index was peeping at the 360,000 points mark by jumping 5,029.92 to an intraday high of 359,696.83 and the JSE Index surged 4,582.83 points to a record 327,724.46. The Junior Market index rose 15.80 points to 3,233.38.
Trading rises for JSE main market – Thursday
NCB traded at a 52 weeks’ high of $113 on Thursday.
Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange picked up over Wednesday’s levels but the market indices slipped even as NCB Financial closed at a record high of $113.
The market closed with the All Jamaican Composite Index losing just 16.65 points to end at 354,666.91 and the JSE Index slipping 15.17 points to 323,141.63.
Market activities resulted in 30 securities trading including 1 in the US dollar market compared to 32 securities trading on Wednesday. At the end of trading, the prices of 13 stocks rose, 8 declined and 9 closed trading, unchanged.
Stanley Motta closed with 47,600 units changing hands, unchanged at $4.60 but only after trading at an all-time low of $4.49, while Kingston Wharves jumped to a new record closing high of $63 along with NCB Financial. Trading in the main market ended with 11,133,718 units valued at $276,180,979 compared to 2,745,464 units valued at $42,524,217 on Wednesday. The day’s volume was led by, Jamaica Broilers with 8,782,170 shares accounting for 78.9 percent of the volume traded, followed by Jamaica Stock Exchange with 482,970 units and 6.8 percent of the day’s volume. Sagicor Real Estate X Fund with 326,997 units and 2.94 percent of the main market volume
Trading resulted in an average of 383,921 units valued at an average of $9,523,482 for each security traded. In contrast to 91,515 units for an average of $1,417,474 on Thursday. For the month to date an average of 222,224 units valued at $4,137,703 versus 213,393 shares valued at an average of $3,829,031 on Wednesday. July closed with an average of 169,022 units valued at $3,514,756, for each security traded.
In the main market activity, Berger Paints jumped $1.50 to end at $21, trading 107,491 stock units, Caribbean Cement lost 50 cents and finished 4,281 shares at $46.50, Grace Kennedy gained 50 cents and ended trading 50,012 shares at $59, Jamaica Broilers jumped $2 to $27.00, trading 8,782,170 stock units, Jamaica Stock Exchange rose 43 cents and closed at $8.08, with 482,970 
shares traded, JMMB Group ended with a gain of 50 cents at $29 with 183,104 shares being exchanged.
Kingston Wharves climbed $1.99 to finished at a 52 weeks’ high of $63, as 5,048 stock units were traded, Mayberry Investments lost 70 cents to close at $7.20, with 2,958 units, NCB Financial Groupjumped 45 and ended trading of 96,695 shares at record high of $113. Pulse Investments shed 40 cents and concluded trading at $2.40, with 49,000 shares trading, Sagicor Group gained 25 cents in n exchanging 13,262 shares, to close at $38.05, Scotia Group traded 294,787 units and lost 50 cents to end at $52.50, Seprod dropped $3 and finished trading 15,939 shares to end at $43.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 10,000 units valued $2,300. Trading ended with Proven Investments exchanging 10,000 shares to close at 23 US cents The JSE USD Equities Index unchanged at 173.74.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 closing with lower offers.
Minor slip for Junior Market – Thursday
Caribbean Flavours ended trading on the Junior Market at a record closing high of $19.
The Junior Market closed trading on Thursday slightly down, even as advancing stocks beat out declining stocks more than 2 to 1 with the market index falling 3.19 points to 3,217.58.
At the close, 27 securities changed hands, down slightly from 28 on Wednesday with the prices of 13 advancing, 6 declining and 8 remained unchanged. Trading resulted in an exchange of 3,136,408 units valued at $17,262,540 compared to 2,597,222 units valued at $24,126,194, on Wednesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 5 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, 1 closed with a lower offer.
Trading closed with an average of 116,163 units for an average of $639,353 in contrast to 92,758 units for an average of $861,650 on Wednesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 254,559 units at $1,270,673, compared to 262,510 units at $1,306,941 on the previous trading day. Trading in July, averaged 154,060 units valued at $655,146 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, Access Financia
l climbed $3 to end at $43, exchanging 89,300 shares, Blue Power concluded trading of 52,691 units and rose by 30 cents to $5, CAC 2000 finished 5 cents higher at $9.05, trading 100 shares, Cargo Handlers settled with 5,000 shares being exchanged and rose 80 cents to $12, Caribbean Flavours traded 18,000 stock units for a rise of $1 to a record close of $19. Caribbean Producers finished trading 173,788 units, 15 cents higher at $6.80, Derrimon Trading ended at $23.50, with 85,360 shares, Dolphin Cove concluded trading at $16.50, in exchanging 143 shares, Elite Diagnostic finished 10 cents higher at $3.10, with 487,961 stock units changing hands. Eppley settled at $10.18, with 2,100 units, Everything Fresh fell 2 cents in trading 36,501 shares to end at $2.10, Express Catering ended trading 60,253 shares, at $8.01, FosRich Group rose by 24 cents to $2.99, trading 119,884 shares, General Accident finished trading 5,000 shares, 65 cents higher at $4.45, but closed with the offer at $3.80. GWest Corporation closed at $2.18, while exchanging 11,909 stock units, Indies Pharma traded 867,462 shares but fell 10 cents to end at $2.60, Iron Rock concluded trading at $3.25, with 2,500 shares changing hands, 
Jetcon Corporation traded with 40,767 stock units with a loss of 8 cents at $4.02, KLE Group finished trading 600 shares and rose 25 cents to $3.30. Knutsford Express closed at $12.50, in exchanging 7,250 shares, Lasco Distributors ended with a loss of 10 cents at $3.90, after exchanging 297,318 shares, Lasco Financial concluded trading with 134,226 stock units at $5.80, Lasco Manufacturing finished 10 cents higher at $4, with 582,909 units changing hands. Main Event settled 11 cents higher at $7.11, trading 11,000 shares, Paramount Trading traded 3,872 shares with a loss of 40 cents at $2.60, Stationery and Office finished trading 30,314 stock units with a loss of 20 cents at $8.15 and tTech ended 10 cents higher at $5.20, with 10,200 shares changing hands.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
Losses = gains in Junior Market trading – Wednesday
The Junior Market closed trading on Wednesday in a tug of war between advancing and declining stocks with the market ending with 12 each being up and down, as advancing stocks just having the upper hand in steering the market index higher.
At the close, the market index rose 15.68 points to close at 3,220.77, with 28 securities changing hands, the same number on Tuesday.
IC bid-offer Indicator|At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading had 8 stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices, 1 closed with a lower offer.
The market closed with the prices of 12 advancing, 12 declining and 4 remaining unchanged and resulted in an exchange of 9,172,835 units valued at $44,109,271, compared to 2,149,308 units valued at $9,485,152 on Tuesday.
Trading closed with an average of 92,758 units for an average of $861,650 in contrast to 327,601 units for an average of $1,575,331 on Tuesday. The average volume and value for the month to date amounts to 262,510 units at $1,306,941, compared to 273,263 units at $1,335,149 on the previous trading day. Trading in July, averaged 154,060 units valued at $655,146 for each security traded.
At the close of trading, Access Financial traded 1,150 shares and fell $5 to $40, AMG Packaging fell 5 cents to end at $1.90, trading 23,300 stock units, Cargo Handlers settled with 510 shares trading to end at $11.20, Caribbean Cream traded 3,590 shares at $5.30, Caribbean Flavours traded 536,025 stock units to close at $18 after trading at a 52 weeks’ high of $19, Caribbean Producers finished trading 12,500 units but fell 25 cents at $6.65. Consolidated Bakeries closed with a rise of 13 cents at $2.50, with 112,000 shares changing hands, Derrimon Trading dropped $1.50 and ended at $23.50, with 374,140 shares, Dolphin Cove lost 50 cents in trading just 238 shares at $16.50, Elite Diagnostic lost 10 cents and finished at $3, exchanging 308,958 stock units. Everything Fresh fell 8 cents in trading 89,500 shares to end at $2.12, Express Catering ended trading 16,022 shares and rose 1 cent to close at $8.01, FosRich Group traded 25 cents down to $2.75, while exchanging 424,072 shares, General Accident lost 5 cents and finished trading of 73,296 shares at $3.80. 
Honey Bun lost 7 cents and ended at $4.43, with juts 1,000 units trading, Indies Pharma traded 269,311 shares and rose 20 cents to end the highest level since its recent listing at $2.70, Iron Rock concluded trading of 100,000 shares with a loss of 5 cents at $3.25, Jamaican Teas added 4 cents and settled at $3.99, with 3,430 shares. Jetcon Corporation ended trading 39,658 stock units with a gain of 10 cents to end at $4.10, Key Insurance traded 2,000 shares and rose 2 cents to close at $3.08, KLE group rose 5 cents to $3.05 trading 3,500 shares, Knutsford Express climbed $1 to close at $12.50, with 9,690 shares changing hands, Lasco Distributors rose 10 cents to $4, trading 21,231 shares, Lasco Financial rose 20 cents with 16,313 stock units trading at $5.80. Lasco Manufacturing rose 4 cents and closed at $3.90, with 81,358 units, Main Event settled at $7, in trading 3,000 shares, Stationery and Office ended trading 69,158 stock units after falling 50 cents to close at $8.35 and tTech closed 3 cents higher to $5.10, trading 2,172 units.
Prices of securities trading for the day are those at which the last trade took place.
All Jamaica at record close of 354,683
The Jamaica Stock Exchange traded within a few hundred points of Tuesday’s record but pulled back to close just under 355,000 points on the all Jamaica Index, but well ahead of Tuesday’s record close.
The market did not hold to the lofty highs reached in the early session and closed trading with the All Jamaican Composite Index climbing by a lower 2,962.57 points to end at a closing record high of 354,683.56 and the JSE Index advancing by 2,699.24 points to finish at a closing record high of 323,156.80.
Market activities resulted in 32 securities trading including 2 in the US dollar market compared to 35 securities trading on Tuesday. At the end of trading, the prices of 15 stocks rose, 8 declined and 9 closed trading unchanged.
Stanley Motta had 22,188 units changing hands to close unchanged at $4.60 but only after trading at an all-time low of $4.50, Jamaica producers closed at a 52 weeks’ high of $18.50, while Kingston Wharves jumped to a new record closing high of $61.01.
Trading in the main market ended with 2,745,464 units valued at $42,524,217 compared to 5,240,001 units valued $81,075,944 on Tuesday.
The day’s volume was led by, Victoria Mutual Investments with 984,214 shares accounting for 35.85 percent of the volume traded, followed by Sagicor Real Estate X Fund with 373,447 units and 13.60 percent of the main market volume Radio Jamaica with 187,582 units and 6.8 percent of the day’s volume.
Trading resulted in an average of 91,515 units valued at an average of $1,417,474, in contrast to 169,032 units for an average of $2,615,353, on Tuesday. For the month to date an average of 213,393 units valued at $3,829,031 versus 220,691 units valued at $3,981,020 on Tuesday. July closed with an average of 169,022 units valued at $3,514,756, for each security traded.
Stocks with major price changes| Berger Paints jumped $1.50 and ended at $19.50, trading 20,721 shares, Jamaica Producers finished trading 12,154 stock units with a rise of 50 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of at $18.50, JMMB Group fell 50 cents to $28.50, in exchanging 133,143 shares, Kingston Wharves finished trading with a rise of $1.10 to end at a new closing high of $61.01, with 150 stock units, Mayberry Investments rose 60 cents and settled at $7.80, with 36,242 units, Mayberry Jamaica Equities gained 35 cents and closed at $8.75 trading 13,374 shares, 
NCB Financial Group lost $1 and ended trading 84,110 shares at $108.00. Sagicor Real Estate Fund lost $1.03, in settling at $11 in trading 373,447 shares, Scotia Group traded 119,050 shares and gained 94 cents to end at $53, Seprod finished trading 4,760 shares after rising $1 to close at $46, Supreme Ventures rose 40 cents and ended at $15, with 101,251 shares changing hands and Sygnus Credit Investments traded 156,310 shares and rose 33 cents to $11.50.
Trading in the US dollar market closed with 4,896,606 units valued $567,284. Trading ended with Proven Investments trading 1,000 shares and rose 1 cent to close at 23 US cents and Sygnus Credit trading 4,895,606 shares rose 1.6 cents to close at 11.6 US cents. The JSE USD Equities Index gained 5.62 points to close at 173.74.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, the Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 4 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 closing with lower offers.