LascoMan trades 3m units

June 24, 2015 by

Lasco's new I Cool drink. 3 million units of the stock traded

Lasco’s new I Cool drink. 3 million units of the stock traded

Activity on the Junior Market closed with 11 securities trading and ended with 3,364,830 units changing hands valued at $6,906,793, Lasco Manufacturing had trading in 3 million shares, all the sale was done by Mayberry who crossed the bulk of them on behalf of clients.
The JSE Junior Market Index declined 15.87 points to close at 908.39, with the price of 6 stocks advancing, 3 declining with 2 closing at 52 weeks’ high. At the close, there were 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices, 5 with lower offers and 4 securities closing with no bids to buy and 5 that had no stocks being offered for sale.
Stocks trading in the junior market are, Access Financial ending with 1,000 shares changing hands to close with a loss of $2 at $13.50. Cargo Handlers finished with 36,551 units to close with a gain of $1, to a new all-time high of $26, Caribbean Cream with 9,800 shares traded lower by 1 cent to $1.59, Dolphin Cove trading 97,462 shares to close higher by 20 cents at a new high of $12.78. JM 24-6-15General Accident closed with 8,333 shares trading 5 cents higher at $1.72, Honey Bun ended with a gain of 3 cents to close at $2.88 with 100,000 shares changing hands. Jamaican Teas ended with 100,000 shares changing hands, to close at $4, Knutsford Express closed at $6.10 while 4,899 shares changed hands. Lasco Distributors traded only 4,400 shares to close at $1.68, for a gain of 3 cents, Lasco Financial traded only 2,385 shares but added 15 cents in closing at $1.95 and Lasco Manufacturing was the big trade for the day with 3 million shares but lost 10 cents to end at $1.30.

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3 new highs for junior market

June 22, 2015 by

Knutsford Express closed at a new all time high of $6.10 on Monday.

Knutsford Express closed at a new all time high of $6.10 on Monday.

Stocks continue to trade higher on the Junior Market with 9 securities trading, and ended with 1,094,072 units changing hands valued at $2,303,628. The JSE Junior Market Index gained 7.84 points to close at 926.10, with the price of 6 stocks advancing, 1 declining with 3 closing at 52 weeks’ high.
At the close of the market, there were 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices, 2 with lower offers and 5 securities closing with no bids to buy and 6 that had no stocks being offered for sale.
Stocks trading in the junior market are, Blue Power closing with 659 shares trading at $10.51, after being as high as $11.60 for a new 52 weeks’ high. Caribbean Cream finishing with 60,000 units to close with a gain of 10 cents at $1.70, Caribbean Flavours trading 200,000 shares and ended 25 cents higher at $2.55,JM 22-6-15 Dolphin Cove finishing trading with only 400 shares to gain 50 cents to end at a new 52 weeks’ high of $12.50. Knutsford Express closing with 829 shares changing hands, 5 cents higher at $6.10 for a new 52 weeks’ high, Lasco Financial Services finishing trading with 662,171 units. The price slipped 15 cents to $1.80 after trading as high as $2, Lasco Manufacturing had 38,773 shares changing hands at $1.40, Medical Disposables contributed 11,240 shares with the price rising 5 cents, to $2.30 and Derrimon Trading 11.75% preference ended trading with 120,000 units at $2.50.

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JSE slips most stocks rose

June 19, 2015 by

Caribbean Cement factory the company's stock closed at a 52 weeks' high on Friday

Caribbean Cement factory the company’s stock closed at a 52 weeks’ high on Friday

Activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, resulted in the prices of 15 stocks rising, 9 declining as 31 securities changed hands, ending in 5,015468 units trading, valued at $22,480,880, with 6 stocks closing at 52 weeks’ high, in all market segments. Only 7 stocks gained in the main market with 5 declining.
TheJSE Market Index lost 248.58 points to 97,382.18, theJSE All Jamaican Composite index fell 277.83 points to close at 107,786.05 and the JSE combined index dropped 186.25 points to end at 100,134.89.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows 8 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with offers that were lower.
JSe sum 19-6-15rvIn trading, Cable & Wireless ended with 400,245 units changing hands, 1 cents down at 44 cents, there is some amount of selling at the 48-50 cents range and not much buying showing before 40 cents, with the full 2015 fiscal year results showing a large loss. The Gleaner contributed 670,000 shares with the price rising 3 cents, to end at $1.08, Jamaica Stock Exchange ended at a new all-time high of $7 with 58,055 shares trading to gain of 65 cents, ahead of the ex-dividend date of June 23. JMMB Group had 215,427 shares changing hands with the price remaining at $7.50. National Commercial Bank trading in only 32,931 shares closed at $29.50, Pan Jamaican Investment contributed 20,962 shares with the price slipping 1 cent, to $63.50, JSE fn qts 19-6-15 the stock traded earlier at a 52 weeks’ high of $65, Radio Jamaica closed at a new 52 weeks’ high of $3.20 with 50,000 shares changing hands. Sagicor Group contributing 185,000 shares with the price easing 1 cent, to $12.60. Scotia Group contributing 32,351 shares with the price rising just 1 cent to $23.15, Scotia Investments had 32,219 shares trading between $27.28 and the last price of $29.85, Supreme Ventures contributed 2,148,484 shares with the price falling 20 cents, to $3.50 and Proven Investments contributing 94,708 shares with the price closing unchanged at 22 US cents.

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Are juniors set to rise Wednesday?

June 16, 2015 by

JSE sign Trading on the Junior Market ended with 8 securities trading with 899,009 units changing hands valued at $1,684,866. The JSE Junior Market Index gained 3.51 points to close at 907.19, with the price of 1 stock advancing and 5 declining. No stock closed at 52 weeks’ high.
At the close of the market, there were 10 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and only 3 with lower offers, this suggest that advancing stocks should beat out declining ones on Wednesday. The junior market ended with 4 securities closing with no bids to buy and 9 securities that had no stocks being offered for sale.
Stocks trading in the junior market are, AMG Packaging ending with 5,000 shares changing hands, to close 2 cents lower at $3.17.JM 16-6-15 Caribbean Cream closing with 316,243 shares trading at $1.70 at the close, after shedding 30 cents, Jamaican Teas with 15,000 shares trading, ended at $3.52, Lasco Distributors trading 10,000 shares, 19 cents higher, at $1.60. Lasco Financial Services finished trading with 120,000 units and the price slipped 5 cents to $1.99, Lasco Manufacturing had 158,000 shares trading lower by 16 cents to $1.30, Medical Disposables had 274,266 shares changing hands at $2.20 for a loss of 10 cents and Paramount Trading ended trading with 600 shares at $5.

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Junior market slips slightly

June 15, 2015 by

Cargo Handlers closed at a new high of $24 on Monday

Cargo Handlers closed at a new high of $24 on Monday

Trading ended on the Junior Market with 9 securities trading, and ended with 1,636,539 units changing hands valued at $3,113,265. The JSE Junior Market Index 5 declined 3.65 points to close at 903.68, with the price of 5 stocks advancing and 3 declining with 2 closing at a 52 weeks’ high.
At the close of the market, there were 5 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and only 4 with lower offers. Trading ended with 4 securities closing with no bids to buy and 9 securities that had no stocks being offered for sale.
Stocks trading in the junior market are, Cargo Handlers traded at a new high of $24 with 1,415 units to gain 49 cents on Friday’s last sale price. JM 15-6-15Caribbean Cream traded at a new all-time high of $2 but slipped back to $1.85 having traded 36,865 shares and closed with the offer at $1.80 to sell 100 shares. General Accident Insurance concluded trading with 106,178 shares changing hands to close 19 cents lower at $1.56, Jamaican Teas closed with only 2,070 shares trading at $3.52, for a 2 cents fall, Lasco Distributors traded 252,985 shares, 1 cent higher at $1.41, Lasco Financial Services finished trading with 1,202,900 units, the price gained 4 cents to $2.04. Lasco Manufacturing had trading in 23,584 shares to gain 1 cent to $1.46, Medical Disposables contributed 8,000 shares with the price rising 20 cents, to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $2.30 and Paramount Trading ended trading with 2,542 shares with a decline of 50 cents at $5.

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Big pay day for JSE shareholders

June 9, 2015 by

JSEDailyTrading280X150The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) will pay out $74.33 million in the form of a dividend in July. The company listed 140.250 million ordinary shares on the exchange in 2013 is making its first dividend payment since listing.
JSE board of directors met on Monday and declared the payment of a dividend of fifty-three cents (53 cents) per share unit, payable on July 10 to shareholders on record as at June 26, 2015. The stock will trade ex dividend on June 24, 2015.
The share closed 2014 at $1.57 and gained 237.58 since the start of 2015, helped considerably by a jump in profit in the first quarter from a loss of $2 million to $87 million. A pick up in stock market activities also helped in driving demand for the stock as investors saw higher income and profit flowing in future quarters. The JSE reported a very small profit of $3 million for the year ended December last year. The dividend enjoys a yield of 33.75 percent based on the price at the end of last year and 10.5 percent based on the price last Friday and 9.2 percent based on Tuesday’s closing price of $5.75.

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Access almost private again

June 6, 2015 by

Proven upped its stake in Access in May, leaving few shares in the public's hands.

Proven upped its stake in Access in May, leaving few shares in the public’s hands.

Access Financial Services is virtually a private company again with Proven Investments having increased their stake in the junior market company and with the founder and Chief executive Officer having a large block. There is less than ten percent of the shares in public’s hands now.
On May 18, Proven acquired an additional 1,249,608 shares in Access Investments, thereby increasing its interest to 49.72 percent. In December last year, Proven bought 135,339,271 units in the financial micro lender when it picked up most of the shares held by Mayberry at the time, at a price of $9. in the latest audited report for Proven, Access is listed as a subsidiary of Proven. Normally, owning less than 50 percent plus one share in a company would result in a company being a subsidiary and less down to 20 percent, would qualify as an associate.
The stock has been trading recently at $17 each, with Access having reported improved results for the March quarter increasing by 72 percent to $157.6 million, up from $79 million in 2014. Marcus James in March this year transferred his 112,421,260 units to a company representing 41.6 percent of the issued shares leaving just under 9 percent in the public’s hands.

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Cross currents impact Scotia Group

June 3, 2015 by

BNS -ConsprngFaced with cross currents of one sort or the other Scotia Group has had to navigate some traitorous water over the past two years or so. They may be coming to the end but their latest results are not very encouraging. For with profit of $10.5 billion in 2013 up from $10.2 billion in 2012, Scotia could just manage $9.76 billion last year or $3.14 per share. The group so far seems to be retreating rather than going forward, with the latest results.
Scotia in its latest quarterly report reported net profit of $3.845 billion for the six months ended April 2015, a fall of $1.1 billion, from the restated net income of $4.96 billion for the period ended April 2014. For the quarter to April net profit came in at $2.3 billion versus $2.69 billion in the April 2014 quarter, reduction in foreign exchange trading and securities trading gains and increased in other operating costs were major contributors to the decline but were partially offset by increased fee income and insurance revenues.

Jackie Sharp CEO of Scotia Group

Jackie Sharp CEO of Scotia Group

For the half year the full expensing of Asset Tax in the first quarter as well as the increase in the asset tax rates from 0.14 percent to 0.25 percent imposed in May 2014 impacted the results. Additionally, during the second quarter a new tax regime for insurance companies became effective in March 2015, as a result insurance companies were subjected to corporate income tax of 25 percent on statutory income. This change resulted in an increased tax charge of $368 million for Scotia Life. Total revenue for the six months was $17.7 billion, an increase of $372 million.
Net interest income after impairment losses for the period was $11.4 billion, an increase of $235 million when compared with the same period in 2014. There was a reduction in the impairment losses on loans of $242 million.
Operating Expenses for the six months amounted to $9.94 billion and increase of $434 million over the $9.4 billion in 2014 excluding the Asset Tax of $1.29 billion being recorded in the financial results for April 2015, compared to $484 million for April 2014.
The loan portfolio is up $10.8 billion or 7.9 percent over April last year, and after allowance for impairment losses, loans amounted to $147.55 billion as at April. Non-performing loans totalled $4.9 billion, representing 3.26 percent of total gross loans down from 3.45 percent last year and 3.34 percent as at January this year the bank advised investors. The Group’s aggregate loan loss provision as at April 2015 was $5.3 billion.
Earnings per share amounts to 74 cents for the quarter and $1.21 for the half-year and looks like ending the year just below $3 per share. The stock traded on the Jamaica Stock exchange at $25.50 on Thursday. A dividend of 40 cents was declared, payable on 15th of July.

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Declining stocks outpace advancers

June 3, 2015 by

Activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, resulted in the prices of 10 stocks rising, 13 declining as 33 securities changed hands, ending in 9,407,399 units trading, valued at $83,136,775, with 4 stocks closing at 52 weeks’ high, in all market segments.
The JSE Market Index lost 787.71 points to 98,401.83, the JSE All Jamaican Composite index declined 880.45 points to close at 108,925.75 and the JSE combined index dropped by 631.19 points to end at 100,937.41.
JSE sum fn 3-6-15 IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows 15 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 9 with offers that were lower. The indication is for fluidity in price movements on Thursday and the likelihood of declining stocks out numbering advancing ones.
In trading, Berger Paints traded 71,289 units at $3, Caribbean Cement had 201,560 units trading at $5 after dropping 10 cents. Interestingly, even as Cable & Wireless posted a large loss after taking a $7 billion one off extra ordinary expense hit, the stock traded 649,000 units between 50 cents and the closing price of 48 cents, the same as on Tuesday. Carreras traded 483,380 units at $50, after falling $1.50, Gleaner Company had 219,403 shares trading at $1, Hardware & Lumber closed with 38,638 shares trading unchanged at $18, Jamaica Broilers having 2,428,147 units trading with the price holding at $5.18 after slipping from $5.50 earlier in the day, to end the day down 7 cents. JMMB Group lost 79 cents while it traded 1,130,033 units as the price closed at $7.71, following poor profit results in the final quarter of the fiscal year to March.JSE fn qts 03-6-15 Mayberry Investments had 1,099,821 units trading 4 cents lower at $3.05. One million units of the stock were sold by JMMB Securities and Mayberry bought them for in house purposes. National Commercial Bank ended with 81,153 units changing hands 35 cents down at $29.55, Pan Jamaican Investment traded 4,078 units 2 cents higher for a new 52 weeks’ high of $60.52. Sagicor Group had 1,199,248 shares trading at $12, after slipping 5 cents, Scotia Group had 315,085 units changing hands to end 250 cents higher at $25.50 and Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.50% preference shares closed with 295,000 units trading to end at $2.11.

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Sagicor stole show with 11.4m Shares

May 28, 2015 by

Sagicor Group 

Sagicor Group had 11,418,503 shares trading at $11.52 as Sagicor Investments was the only broker trading the stock on behalf of clients, as well as some being bought for in house inventory purposes.
Activity on the overall market resulted in the prices of 18 stocks rising, 8 declining as 37 securities changed hands, ending in 15,580,599 units trading, valued at $163,455,688, in all market segments.
The JSE Market Index gained 621.20 lost points to 98,315.18, the JSE All Jamaican Composite index rose 694.34 points to close at 108,828.89 and the JSE combined index gained 600.84 points to end at 100,580.46.
JSE 28-5-15 IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows only 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with offers that were lower.
In trading, Barita Investments exchanged 77,159 shares to close at $2.50, after shedding 20 cents, Cable & Wireless traded 353,348 units at 50 cents at the close Caribbean Cement had 102,760 shares changing hands at $5, to gain 60 cents at the close, but traded as low as $4.40. Carreras had 104,150 units trading unchanged at $49, Desnoes & Geddes gained 15 cents in trading 12,500 units at $7.50. Gleaner closed up 14 cents as 25,811 units changed hands at $1.10.JSe fn Qts 28-5-15 All the Jamaica Producers’ 36,937 shares traded at $18.55, Jamaica Stock Exchange traded at a new all-time high of $3.65 with 10,000 units, Margaritaville traded 89,180 units at 10.5 US cents up from 10 US cents, Mayberry Investments traded 98,500 at $3, National Commercial Bank traded 15,647 shares to close with a gain of 53 cents at $30.10. Proven Investments ended with 18,320 units as the price rose to 20.99 US cents, followed by Sagicor Real Estate Fund with 202,000 shares at $7.51, Scotia Group had 673,965 shares changing hands at $25.50 and Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.75% preference shares with 289,776 units at $3.02.

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