Tuesday’s activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, resulted in the prices of 4 stocks rising and 5 declining as 17 securities changed hands, culminating in 1,996,522 units trading, valued at $19,658,187, in all market segments.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator showed 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 8 stocks with offers that were lower.
Main Market| The JSE Market Index garnered just 15.98 points after three straight days of losses to end at 71,310.04 and the JSE All Jamaican Composite index rose 17.87 points to close at 78,445.77.
Gains| Stocks gaining with last traded prices, at the end of trading in the main market are, Jamaica Money Market Brokers with 1,731 ordinary shares trading, 5 cents higher at $7 and Sagicor Group with 45,035 shares, the price gained 1 cent to $9.51.
Firm| The stocks in the main market to close with the last traded prices remaining unchanged are, Caribbean Cement with 62,230 units at $2.36, Grace Kennedy with 3,000 shares at $58, National Commercial Bank 323,483 shares to close at $17.85, Sagicor Real Estate Fund with 8,800 shares at $6.60 and Scotia Group 80,896 shares closing at $19.02 .
Declines| The last traded prices of stocks with losses at the end of trading in the main market are, Carreras with 3,457 shares, lost 2 cents to end at $34.50, Hardware & Lumber with only 217 units at 40 cent down to $6.10, Jamaica Broilers 309,664 shares closed with a loss of 49 cents to end at 52 weeks low of $3.51 and Proven Investments with 498,890 shares traded with a loss of 0.99 cent to end at 17 US cents.
Preference| Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.50% preference share traded 10,000 units at 7 cents higher at $3.43 Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.75% preference share traded 20,000 at $3.02.
Moderate gains for Jamaican stocks
Only 4 junior market securities trade
Activity on the Junior Market, remained subdued in Monday,s trading, with only 4 securities being active, resulting in 1,874,825 units valued at $2,598,078 trading. At the close of the Market, the JSE Junior Market Index, increased 0.08 points to close at 666.37 with 2 advancing securities and 2 declining.
The main trades were, General Accident with 1,212,625 units, while gaining 4 cents to end at $1.62 and Lasco Manufacturing with 642,500 shares to close down by 3 cents, at 95 cents, Lasco Distributors closed up a cent at $1.16 with 10,000 shares and Lasco Financial Services with 9,700 shares, ended at 95 after losing 5 cents.
At the close, there was 1 stock with the bid higher than the last selling price, and 7 stocks with offers that were lower, in the junior market, 10 stocks had no bids to sell and 5 with no stock on offer, to sell. These are negative indicators.
More JSE securities trade but less stocks
The number of securities trading Friday, on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, climbed to 22, up from 17 on Thursday and 13 on Wednesday. Price movements were confined to just 9 stocks, with the prices of 4 rising and 5 declining. A total of only 709,978 units traded, valued at $9,562,974, In all market segments.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator showed only 4 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 8 with offers that were lower, which is a slight improvement over Thursday, with 5 to 10, but a continuing negative indicator for the markets, for the current time.
Main Market| The JSE Market Index fell 270.90 points to 71,705.21 and the JSE All Jamaican Composite index declined 302.92 points, to close at 78,887.64.
Gains| Stocks gaining with last traded prices, at the close of the main market are, Grace Kennedy with 109,905 shares, rising 80 cents to $59, National Commercial Bank 50,200 shares changing hands, gained 14 cents to $17.94 and Sagicor Real Estate Fund, closed 10 cents higher at $6.60, with 10,000 units.
Firm| The stocks in the main market to close without a change in the last traded prices are, Cable & Wireless exchanging 20,000 units to close at 29 cents, Jamaica Broilers with only 2,000 shares, closed at $4, Jamaica Money Market Brokers having 29,193 ordinary shares trading to close at $7, Jamaica Producers ended with 9,751 units at $15.50, Mayberry Investments closed with 4,080 shares at $1.50, followed by Radio Jamaica, 11,000 units trading at $1.04 and Seprod having 2,080 shares at $10.90.
Declines| The last traded prices of stocks with losses at the end of trading in the main market are, Carreras in trading just 154 shares lost 3 cents to end at $34.60, Kingston Wharves closed with 38,664 units, after losing 50 cents to end at $5, Sagicor Group 72,000 units led to a 15 cents fall to $9.50 and Scotia Group 6,469 units closed 3 cents lower at $19.02.
Preference| Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.75% preference share traded 10,000 units at $3.02 and their 7.50% preference share contributed 301,000 units at $2.
Junior market participation picks up but…
The number of securities trading in the Junior Market, picked up today to 6, from very low levels previously, but with very low volume. At the close of trading, the price of 1 stock advanced and 1 declined, with a total volume trading was 30,562 units. The JSE Junior Market Index fell 2.73 points to close at 666.29.
At the close the market there only moderate interest in junior market stocks with no bids to buy 10 stocks and no offer to sell 7 out of the 24 listings in this market segment. There was only one stock with the bid that was higher than the last selling price but 4 stocks had offers that were lower.
Gains| Caribbean Cream the sole stock to gain in the junior market, traded 5,000 with a gain of 5 cents, to close at 70 cents.
Firm Trades| Stocks in the junior market that traded to close at the same price as the day before are, Dolphin Cove with 200 shares at $8, Lasco Distributors traded 2,300 units at $1.15 Lasco Financial 1,500 shares at $1 and Lasco Manufacturing managed to exchange 3,982 units at $1.
Declines| General Accident with 20,500 shares changing hands lost 1 cent to end at $1.58 is the only stock declining in the junior market at the end of trading.
Number of securities traded tumble on JSE’s
Wednesday’s Jamaica Stock Exchange activity, resulted in the prices of 3 stocks rising and 3 declining as 13 securities changed hands, culminating in 1,736,129 units trading, valued at $21,538,328, in all market segments.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator had 5 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 stocks with offers that were lower.
Main Market| The JSE Market Index gained 629.81 points to 72,868.17 and the JSE All Jamaican Composite index rose 704.23 points to close at 80,188.04.
Gains| Cable & Wireless is the only stock gaining in the main market with 12,971 shares trading, 1 cent up to 30 cents.
Firm| The stocks in the main market to close without a change in the last traded prices are, Jamaica Money Market Brokers with 998 ordinary units to close at $6.95, Mayberry Investments with 4,580 shares at $1.50 and Proven Investments 9,000 units traded at 18 US cents and Radio Jamaica 3,000 share closed at $1.04.
Declines| The last traded prices of stocks with losses at the end of trading in the main market are, Sagicor Group with 62,921 shares, the price fell 25 cents to end at $9.65 and Scotia Group traded 952,872 units to close 23 cents lower at $19.02 .
Preference| Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.75% preference share traded 367,113 units at $3.02.
Insiders pick up 5m Sagicor shares
Two Executives of Sagicor Group purchased a total of 4,979,956 shares, under the company’s Executive Long Term Incentive Scheme, on September 29, 2014, the company advised the Jamaica Stock Exchange. The purchase brings to 8,414,404 units acquired mostly by executives since June. Executives sold a total of 3,075,556 units during the same period.
The Group offers stock grants and stock options to senior executives as part of its long-term incentive plan. The Group has set aside 150,000,000 of its authorised but un-issued shares of $0.10 each for the stock grants and stock options. The lowest price option is dated March 2009 and would expire in March 2016 with an exercise price of $7.66 for 5,069,770 shares. All the rest that are vested, have an exercise price that are above the current stock price of $9.65. The exercise prices for the rest range between $10.45 for the 2010 vested amount of 4,039,454 with an expiry date of March 2017 and $14.10 for the 2012 vested amount of 1,813,036 shares, with an expiry date of 2019.
The Group also has in place a share purchase plan which enables its administrative and sales staff to purchase a pool of Sagicor Group shares at a predetermined discount rate of the closing bid price on December 31 each year. During 2013, the Staff Share Purchase Plan Trust purchased 3,417,136 shares over the Stock Exchange for a total value of $28,380,000.
2 days with more declines than gains on JSE
Activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, ended Friday with the prices of 5 stocks rising and 7 declining, as 20 securities changed hands. A total of 2,173,764 units traded, valued at $31,949,596, in all market segments. For the week, there were three days when the main market indices declined, to two days of advances. There was a small net increase in the indices, with two days when there were slightly more stocks falling, over those rising.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator had 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 stocks with offers that were lower, in line with the recent sideways movement of the market.
Main Market| The JSE Market Index fell 567.08 points to 72,504.68 and the JSE All Jamaican Composite index declined 634.10 points to close at 79,781.59, slightly higher than the 79,650.40 points, it closed the prior week at.
Gains| Stocks gaining with last traded prices, at the close of the main market are, Gleaner with 35,000 shares trading, with a cent rise to $1.06, Grace Kennedy 1,523 shares closed 45 cents higher at $59.45, National Commercial Bank with just 7,000 units changing hands, was up 5 cents at $18 and Proven Investments 55,000 was higher by 0.01 cent at 18 US cents.
Firm| The stocks in the main market to close without a change in the last traded prices are, Caribbean Cement, putting through 4,001 units at $2.36, Carreras with 300,378 units at $34.65, Jamaica Producers with 1,118,531 shares ended at $15.20, Kingston Wharves closed with only 1,652 shares trading at $6.30, but there is little interest in the stock at these prices that is close to one the big trade of 466 million units took place at on Wednesday, the stock now has bids at $5.01 and lower and Sagicor Group with 2,400 shares closed at $9.65.
Declines| The last traded prices of stocks with losses at the end of trading in the main market are, Cable & Wireless with 19,600 shares, lost 2 cents to end at 28 cents, Jamaica Broilers traded just 6,500 units with a 10 cents loss, to end at $4.30, Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7,092 ordinary shares traded with a 5 cents loss, to end at $6.95, Mayberry Investments 3,060 shares closed down 1 cent, to end at $1.46, Scotia Group with 119,680 shares, closed 50 cents lower at $19.50 and Supreme Ventures closed with a 15 cents fall, to end at $1.80, with 10,346 units.
Preference| Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.75% preference share traded 76,000 units at $3.02 and Proven Investments 8% preference share changing hands with 30,000 units at $5.07.
Scotia Group climbs to $20 pushes indices
After the big trade in Kingston Wharves shares on Wednesday worth over $3 billion, Thursday’s trading seem light in contrast. The main attraction in today’s trading, was the gain in Scotia Group share price, accompanied by more than 1.2 million shares, helping to push the index up, quite sharply. Market activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, resulted in the prices of 6 stocks rising and 6 declining as 17 securities changed hands, resulting in 12,983,655 units trading, valued at $63,224,180, in all market segments.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator showed 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 6 stocks with offers that were lower.
Main Market| The JSE Market Index jumped 1,007.75 points to 73,071.76 and the JSE All Jamaican Composite index rose 1,126.85 points to close at 80,415.69.
Gains| Stocks gaining with last traded prices, at the end of trading in the main market are, Berger Paints with 3,500 shares trading, rose of a cent to $1.66, Jamaica Money Market Brokers with 10,212 ordinary shares, gained 5 cents to end at $7, Scotia Group rose 99 cents, as 1,230,365 shares changed hands at $20 and Scotia Investments increased 10 cents with 4,825 units to $21.80.
Firm| The stocks in the main market to close without a change in the last traded prices are, Carreras 13,736 units at $34.65, Jamaica Producers with 1,000,520 shares at $15.20 and Proven Investments with 8,639 shares, closing at 17.99 US cents.
Declines| The last traded prices of stocks with losses at the end of trading in the main market are, Barita Investments with 6,777 shares, lost 1 cents to end at $2.18, Kingston Wharves traded just 5,000 units at $6.30, with the loss of 20 cents, National Commercial Bank had 17,500 shares changing hands, with a 25 cents cut in price to $17.95, Sagicor Group with 11,325 shares, closed 10 cents less at $9.65 and Sagicor Real Estate Fund had 306,147 units being active, the price fell 2 cents to $6.50.
Preference| Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.50% preference share traded 87,271 units at $3.45 and Jamaica Money Market Brokers down 7.50% preference share traded 8,660,000 units at $2.
2 consecutive down days on JSE
Tuesday’s Activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, resulted in the prices of 5 stocks rising and 7 declining, with 22 securities changing hands. A total of 4,797,725 units traded, valued at $27,746,916 in both the main and junior market.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator, showed 9 stocks with bids higher, than their last selling prices, and 4 stocks with offers that were lower.
Main Market| The JSE Market Index fell 425.48 points to 71,432.21 and the JSE All Jamaican Composite index lost 475.76 points to close at 78,582.39.
Gains| Stocks gaining with last traded prices, at the end of trading in the main market are, Grace Kennedy with 22,436 shares, with 40 cents rise to $58, Jamaica Producers with 1,000,000 shares changing hands, closed 12 cents higher at $15.20 and Radio Jamaica had 13,754 shares changing hands with a gain of 2 cents to $1.04.
Firm| The stocks in the main market to close without a change in the last traded price are, Cable & Wireless contributing 186,952 shares to close at 30 cents, Caribbean Cement with 4,061 units closed at $2.55, Desnoes & Geddes closed at $4.70 with 553,461 shares trading, National Commercial Bank ended at $18 as 53,945 units changed hands and Sagicor Group accounted for 70,007 shares, to close at $9.25.
Declines| The last traded prices of stocks with losses stocks at the end of trading in the main market are, Carreras with 5,864 shares, lost 10 cents to end at $34.30, Jamaica Broilers traded just 2,330 units with a 5 cents loss and closed at $4.40, Jamaica Money Market Brokers with 56,346 ordinary shares changing hands, lost 5 cents to end at $6.95, Pan Jamaican Investment with 3,500 shares trading, ended at $49 after giving up a cent, Sagicor Real Estate Fund exchanged 29,350 units, with a loss of 34 cents to $6.80 and Scotia Group 141,730 shares helped to lop 31 cents off the price to end at $19.09.
Preference| Jamaica Money Market Brokers 7.50% preference share, traded 340,600 units at $2 and Proven Investments 8% preference share traded 15,800 units at $5.05.
Sweet River starts trading with small gain
Friday’s activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, resulted in the prices of 5 stocks rising and 8 declining, as 19 securities changed hands, with 4,358,188 units trading, valued at $120,793,953. Sweet River Abattoir, the latest junior market listing, traded for the first time, having been listed today, with 1,000 shares trading, slightly above the IPO price of $3.86.
Main Market| The JSE Market Index lost 295.47 points to 72,387.35 and the JSE All Jamaican Composite index fell 330.39 points, to close at 79,650.40.
Gains| The stocks gaining with last traded prices, at the end of trading in the main market are, Jamaica Money Market Brokers with 19,179 ordinary shares, rising 5 cents to $7, National Commercial Bank had 27,560 shares changing hands, 14 cents higher at $18, Scotia Group put through 153,187 units with a gain of 5 cents to $19.25 and Seprod, had 141,300 shares changing hands, 28 cents higher at $10.80.
Firm| The stock in the main market to close without a price change at the last traded prices is Sagicor Real Estate Fund with 26,530 units at $7.14
Declines| The last traded prices of stocks with losses at the at the end of trading in the main market are Carreras with 565,400 shares, lost 30 cents to end at $34.35, Grace Kennedy traded 1,514,078 units for $2 loss, to end at $58, Mayberry Investments with 20,000 shares, closed 20 cents lower at $1.50, Proven Investments ordinary stock, traded 49,418 shares and lost 0.99 cents to end at 17US cents and Sagicor Group traded 391,700 shares and lost 55 cents at $9.20.
Preference| Access Financial 9% debenture note, traded 102,000 units at $5 and Jamaica Money Market Brokers 8.50% preference share, traded 1,093,000 units at $2.
Junior Market| The JSE Junior Market Index fell 5.84 points to close at 662.23, as 6 stocks traded with 1 advancing and 3 declining.
Gains| Newly listed Sweet River Abattoir, closed with 1,000 shares trading at $3.90 for a 4 cents gain, on the IPO price and is the only stock gaining at the end of trading, in the junior market.
Firm Trades| Stocks in the junior market that traded to close at the same price as the day before are, General Accident with 150,000 shares, ending at $1.50, C2W Music 2,300 units trading at 40 cents and Jamaican Teas with 11,734 shares at $3.30.
Declines| Stocks declining in the junior market at the end of trading, are Honey Bun with 25,802 shares, lost 22 cents to end at $2.12, a 52 weeks’ Low, Lasco Financial with 39,000 shares changing hands, lost 3 cents to end at 95 cents and Lasco Manufacturing with 25,000 shares lost 5 cents to end up at 97 cents.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator had 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 4 stocks with offers that were lower.