Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, 
saw big gains in the market indices main market with more than 1,500 points rise in the all Jamaican Composite Index as advancing stocks overpowered decliners in early trading but with limited volumes. The junior market index slipped below the 2,300 points level.
At 10:45 am 29 securities traded, resulting in a volume of 697,409 shares changing hands compared to 6,040,541 shares carrying a value of $5,991,867 on Tuesday. The average number of shares traded amounts to 24,049 units compared to 251,689 units on Tuesday. Market activity resulted in 6 stocks falling while the prices of 13 securities rose.
The all Jamaica Composite Index jumped 1,510.12 points to 180,826 the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index climbed 1,350.32 points to 162,732.63, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index jumped 1,007.40 points to close at 174,484.54 and the junior market index fell 23.85 points to 2,294.16.
The main contributors to the gain in the indices include a $1 rise in the prices of Caribbean Cement and National Commercial Bank and a jump of $1.39 in the price of Scotia Investments, while a fall in the price of Dolphin Cove from $15 to $13.70 had a negative effect on the junior market index.
JSE main market jumps sharply
September 21, 2016 by
JSE stocks make strong gains – Tuesday
September 20, 2016 by
$85 million of NCB’s shares traded on Tuesday
At the close of the market, prices of 16 securities gained out of a total of 40 trading, while 13 declined in the overall market, including 5 stocks rising and 6 falling, in the junior market.
At the close, 7,614,266 units valued at $192,616,632, changed hands, compared to the 12,416,676 units valued at $159,207,495 changing hands on Monday. The junior market accounted for 907,063 units valued at $3,876,442 of the total traded on Tuesday. Carreras accounted for $66,047,705 and National Commercial Bank $85,057,375 of the value of stocks traded amounting to 78 percent of all trades.
The market index ended with good gains, with the JSE Market Index climbing 1,241.23 points to end at 161,382.31.
The all Jamaica Composite Index jumped 1,388.13 points to close at 179,316.17 and the JSE combined index surged 1,067.23 points, to end at 173,477.14.IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading showed 15 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
In market activity, Barita Investments gained 25 cents to close at $3.50 on Monday and seems set to rise further with the bid at $3.75 to buy 40,00 units, the stock is on offer at $4 to sell 47,767 shares at the close. Cable & Wireless continues to garner support in the mid 90 cents region and seems to be heading back over $1, but it shed 1 cent and closed at 94 cents, with 381,613 units changing hands, Caribbean Cement lost 60 cents, to close at $26 with 456,774 units changing hands. Carreras closed at $65.50 with 1,016,110 units trading, slightly less than the 1,137,767 shares traded on Monday, Grace Kennedy lost 1 cent, with 104,303 shares changing hands at $42.49, Jamaica Broilers had 88,541 shares changing hands and gained 45 cents to end at $15. Jamaica Producers ended with a loss of 20 cents to close at $8.30 with 175,143 units trading, Jamaica Stock Exchange fell 10 cents to end at $27.40 while trading 5,623 shares, JMMB Group traded 3,579 units and rose 18 cents to $9.99. Kingston Wharves traded 10,455 shares to close at $17, after falling 50 cents,
National Commercial Bank traded 2,083,020 shares and closed at $41. The price of 138 Student Living remained unchanged at $4.70, after 158,000 units changed hands, Pan Jamaican Investments gained 45 cents and closed at $23.95 after trading 7,185 shares.Portland JSX ended with 12,000 units trading at $11.39, Sagicor Group traded 103,169 shares and gained 21 cents to close at $23.02, Sagicor Real Estate Fund traded 21,100 shares to close with at $10.20. Scotia Group gained 49 cents to close at $30.50 with 7,349 shares changing hands, Scotia Investments had 133,013 units changing hands at $26.10, for a gain of 1 cent, Seprod fell by 50 cents to close at $21 with 2,724 shares trading, Sterling Investments gained 88 cents to close at a new high of $15 with 5,098 units changing hands, Supreme Ventures rose 20 cents to close at $4.90 with 1,874,873 units changing hands and Proven Investments closed at 19.99 US cents with 49,700 units trading.
Mild losses for juniors – Tuesday
September 20, 2016 by
Jetcon ended at a new closing high of $4.50 on Tuesday, with gains of 100% since listing in March.
Trading ended with 907,063 units changing hands, 9 percent more than on Monday, while the value traded dropped just 5 percent, with $3,876,442, compared to $4,086,204 changing hands on Monday.
At the close, Cargo Handlers have not traded for a few days but today the stock closed with the bid at $89.01 with 100 units, nearly $3 ahead of the last sale price with 1,000 units offered for sale at $1,000.
As was the case on Monday, Key Insurance did not trade but seems set to trade at a new low when next it does with the offer at $2.37 to sell 152,290 units compared with the last sale of $2.49, there were no bids on the stock at the close.Caribbean Cream gained 10 cents with 20,000 shares changing hands at of $9.10, Caribbean Flavours gained just 1 cent in closing at $8.01 with 4,749 shares changing hands, Caribbean Producers traded just 20,130 shares and lost 20 cents to close at $3.40. Consolidated Bakeries lost 1 cent to end at $2.42 with 26,559 units changing hands. General Accident closed trading with 348,954 units at $2.05, with a 15 cents loss, Honey Bun traded 800 units to end at $5.85, Jamaican Teas had 1,100 units changing hands at $4. Jetcon Corporation rose 35 cents in trading at new record high of $4.80, with 34,983 units changing hands but ended at new closing high of $4.50, to gain 100 percent, since listing in late March.
Knutsford Express lost 50 cents with 1,559 units changing hands to end at $24, Lasco Distributors closed with 76,469 units trading and ended with a gain of 14 cents at $7.04. Lasco Financial gained 15 cents with 1,165 shares changing hands to close at $3.25. Lasco Manufacturing lost 10 cents to close at $4.80 with 146,842 shares trading, tTech traded 46,953 shares and closed at $6, Derrimon Trading preference share gained 5 cents and ended with 500 units changing hands to close at $2.20 and Eppley 9.5% preference share, fell 20 cents in trading 176,300 shares, to end at $6.30.
Rising JSE’s stocks doubled – Monday
September 19, 2016 by
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Supreme Ventures traded the most shares on Monday with 6.9m units
At the close of the market prices of 19 securities gained out of a total of 38 trading, with 11 declining, in the overall market, including 4 stocks rising and 5 falling, in the junior market.
At the close, 12,416,676 units valued at $159,207,495, changed hands, compared to the 56,335,591 units valued at $1,576,979,024 changing hands on Friday. The junior market accounted for 835,628 units valued at $4,086,204 of the total traded on Monday. The big trade of the day was Supreme Ventures with 6,871,362 units valued at $32,318,545 changing hands to close at $4.70 after falling 28 cents. Carreras traded over 1 million shares at a value of $73,955,605.
The market index ended with good gains, with the JSE Market Index climbing 892.01 points to end at 160,141.08. The all Jamaica Composite Index rose 997.57 points to close at 177,928.04 and the JSE combined index surged 1,128.53 points, to end at 172,409.91.
At the close, IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading showed 16 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
In market activity, Barita Investments rose 25 cents and ended with 61,030 units changing hands to close at $3.50, investors pushed the price of Cable & Wireless up by 15 cents to close at 95 cents and picked up 1,594,615 units as selling of the stock abates. Caribbean Cement rose 60 cents, to close at $26.60 with 10,315 units changing hands, Carreras traded 1,137,767 shares to close at $65.50, Investors traded 49,527 shares of 1834 Investments to close with a loss of 6 cents at $1.18, Grace Kennedy lost 50 cents, with 394,085 shares changing hands at $42.50. Jamaica Broilers had 678,683 shares changing hands and gained 5 cents to end at $14.55, Jamaica Producers ended with a gain of 10 cents to close at $8.50 with 108,851 units trading, Jamaica Stock Exchange gained $1 to end at $27.50 while trading 15,168 shares, JMMB Group traded 1,200 units and rose 1 cent to $9.81. Kingston Wharves traded 6,161 shares to close at $17.50, after falling 5 cents, Mayberry Investments had 12,000 shares changing hands, to close with a rise of 5 cents at $3.55, 
National Commercial Bank jumped by $1 with 321,588 shares trading and closed at $41, the price of 138 Student Living remained unchanged at $4.70, after 7,150 units changed hands. Pan Jamaican Investments lost just 1 cent and closed at $23.50 after trading 185,496 shares. Radio Jamaica rose 2 cents and closed at $1.42 after 8,000 shares changed hands, Sagicor Group traded 24,120 shares and fell 29 cents to close at $22.81. Sagicor Real Estate Fund traded 38,153 shares to close with a gain of 8 cents at $10.20, Scotia Group gained 30 cents to close at $30.01 with 6,124 shares changing hands. Seprod gained 99 cents to close at $21.50 with 2,333 shares trading and Proven Investments gained 0.95 19.99 US cents.
Juniors make big gains – Monday
September 19, 2016 by
Eppley 9.5% preference share closed at a new high of $6.50 in Monday.
At the close the stock had a bid of $4.35 to buy 15,000 units, 10,200 units was the lowest offer at $4.80.
The market index gained 29.34 points, to close at 2,326.19. Market activities ended with 8 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 ending with lower offers.
Trading ended with 835,628 units changing hands, 83 percent less than on Friday, while the value traded dropped 87 percent, with $4,086,204, compared to $32,514,713 changing hands on Friday.At the close, Caribbean Cream closed trading with 133,630 shares changing hands at of $9, earlier in the trading session the stock traded at $9.50. Caribbean Producers traded just 13,000 shares and rose 15 cents to close at $3.60. Consolidated Bakeries closed with a loss of 1 cent at $2.43 with 105,051 units changing hands. General Accident closed trading with 81,654 units, to close at $2.20, with a 9 cents loss, Honey Bun gained 32 cents in trading 4,300 units to end at $5.85,
Jetcon Corporation fell 15 cents and ended at $4.15 with 65,867 units changing hands, after trading at new record high of $4.40. As was the case on Friday, Key Insurance has not traded but seems set to trade at a new low with the offer still at $2.38 compared with the last sale of $2.49, there were no bids on the stock at the close. Lasco Distributors closed with 76,600 units trading and ended with a loss of 15 cents at $6.90. Lasco Financial fell 20 cents with 14,000 shares changing hands to close at $3.10. Lasco Manufacturing closed at $4.90 with 177,726 shares trading, Medical Disposables traded 129,000 shares and closed at $4 and Eppley 9.5% preference share, gained 39 cents in trading 7,100 shares, to end at a 52 weeks’ closing high of $6.50, after trading as high as $7.
Junior market jumps sharply
September 19, 2016 by
Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, saw big gains in the market indices with the junior market out pacing the gains with a jump of 42 points or 1.8 percent and led the combined index to gain over 1,000 points in the early morning session.
The market commenced the week with more than 1 million shares each trading in Cable & Wireless 1,591,675 units as the price held firm, Carreras traded 1,136,267 units as the price fell 50 cents for and National Commercial Bank had 319,588 shares trading at $40. Volume traded in other stocks was very moderate.
Barita Investments traded 9,250 shares at $3.51 with the price gaining 26 cents, Mayberry Investments traded 500 and gained 35 cents to $3.85, Seprod gained 99 cents in trading 1,000 shares at $21.50 and Jamaican Teas gained 40 cents in trading 27,700 shares at $4.
At 10:45 am 20 securities traded, resulting in a volume of 3,175,290 shares changing hands compared to 33,336,371 shares carrying a value of $1,215,936,825 on Friday. The average number of shares traded amounts to 158,765 units compared to 1,515,290 units on Friday. The number of stocks falling are 4 while the prices of 9 securities rose as the market continues to consolidate.
The all Jamaica Composite Index gained 813.86 points to 177,744.33, the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index climbed 727.73 points to 159,976.80, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index jumped 1,106.08 points to close at 172,387.46 and the junior market index rose 41.88 points to 2,338.84.
Derrimon in Paramount out – Top 5
September 18, 2016 by
AMG Packaging is IC Insider’s top junior market stock for growth in the next 12 months.
Paramount Trading price movement is directly related to limited supply of the stock. There are good prospects for increased earnings to flow from expansion into the processing of lubricants, for the local market. Production is expected to get on the way in the first quarter of 2017. With a PE ratio of 7.6 times 2017 projected earnings, the stock remains attractive. With the limited supply, the stock seems a prime candidate for a stock split later this year.
Jetcon Corporation seems set to move out of the top 5 by the end of the week, if the trend of increased demand and limited supply continues. During the past week, the stock gained 24 percent based on the closing bids that were higher than the last sale price. AMG Packaging fell sharply in the week and has pushed the stock to top of the list, while Medical Disposables has moved down to 3 due to a revision downwards of earnings to 60 cents per share and an increase in the stock price.
Derrimon enters as number 4 but the company is highly leveraged but expanding. Derrimon Trading reported slightly increased profit of $32.2 million or 12 cents per share up from $30.6 million in the June quarter with profit of $58.5 million compared to $51.2 million for the six months to June, with 3.5 percent growth is sales in the June quarter and 6 percent for the six months year over year. Other income grew but the company’s share of associated profit fell in both periods, while costs were held tightly.Barita Investments is the only stock in the top 5 main market list, to show any major change, with the bid moving up to $3.51 at the close of the week and seeming set to trade in the $4 region sooner than later, with limited supply on the offer.
10 JSE stocks rise 10 fall -Friday
September 16, 2016 by
Grace Kennedy traded nearly 28M shares on Friday.
Trading led to the prices of 10 securities gaining out of a total of 37 that traded, with 10 declining in the overall market, including 5 stocks rising and 2 falling, in the junior market.
At the close of the market to 56,335,591 units valued at $1,576,979,024, changed hands, compared to the 2,177,808 units valued at $15,988,922 changing hands on Friday. The junior market accounted for 4,977,327 units valued at $32,514,713 of the total traded on Friday.
At the close of trading, the JSE Market Index dived 1,017.74 points to end at 159,249.07. The all Jamaica Composite Index dropped 1,138.18 points to close at 176,930.47 and the JSE combined index sank 749.64 points, to end at 171,281.38.At the close, IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading, in the main and junior markets, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading showed 14 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 3 with lower offers.
In market activity, investors picked up 2,041,685 units of Cable & Wireless, the price gained 2 cents in closing at 80 cents, Caribbean Cement fell by $1 to close at $26 with 992,947 units changing hands, Carreras traded 40,840 shares and lost 52 cents to close at $65.50, Grace Kennedy gained $1.55, with 27,892,196 shares changing hands at $43. Jamaica Broilers had 8,030,326 shares changing hands and fell 5 cents to end at $14.50, Jamaica Producers ended unchanged at $8.40 with 509,740 units trading, Jamaica Stock Exchange fell by 50 cents to end at $26.50 while trading 10,200 shares, JMMB Group traded 4,116,935 units and lost 20 cents to $9.80. Kingston Wharves traded 1,800 shares to close at $17.55, Mayberry Investments ended with 2,292,911 shares changing hands, to close at $3.50,
National Commercial Bank had 3,037,523 shares trading and closed with a loss of 25 cents at $40, Pan Jamaican Investments lost 94 cents and closed at $23.51 after trading 326,021 shares. Pulse Investments traded 37,200 shares with a rise of 35 cents to close at $4, Radio Jamaica closed at $1.40 after 110,101 shares changed hands, Sagicor Group traded 358,270 shares while gaining 53 cents to close at $23.10. Sagicor Real Estate Fund traded 4,590 shares to close with a fall of 3 cents at $10.12, Scotia Group dropped $1.80 to close at $30.71 with 1,238,805 shares changing hands. Seprod gained 81 cents to close at $20.51 with 12,000 shares trading and Proven Investments gained 0.95 cent with 297,060 units changing hands to close at 19.99 US cents.
5 juniors rise 2 down – Friday
September 16, 2016 by
Jetcon Corporation traded at a new high of $4.30 on Friday to gain 91% since listing.
Jetcon Corporation was the only stock trading at a new high, the price rose 30 cents in closing at new record high of $4.30 with 84,170 units changing hands. At the close the stock had a bid of $4.35 to buy 15,000 units, 10,200 units was the lowest offer at $4.80. Key Insurance did not trade, but seems set to trade at a new low with the offer at $2.38 compared with the last sale of $2.49, there were no bids on the stock at the close.
The market index gained 18.92 points, to close at 2,296.85. Market activities ended with 4 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 ending with lower offers.Trading ended with 4,977,327 units changing hands, 253 percent more than on Thursday, while the value traded jumped 465 percent, with $32,514,713, compared to $5,750,259 changing hands on Thursday.
At the close, AMG Packaging traded 10,243, shares with the price dropping 22 cents to close at $15, Caribbean Cream gained 30 cents and closed with 81,236 shares changing hands at of $9, earlier in the trading session the stock traded at $9.50. Caribbean Flavours traded 7,000 shares to close at $8, Caribbean Producers traded just 2,000 shares and rose 15 cents to close at $3.45. Consolidated Bakeries closed with a gain of 4 cents t0 $2.44 with 2,549 units changing hands.
General Accident closed trading with 10,000 units, to close at $2.29, Knutsford Express Services dropped 50 cents to end with 2,746 units trading at $24.50, Lasco Distributors closed with 3,769,952 units trading and ended with a gain of 8 cents at $7.05. Lasco Financial with 10,000 shares changing hands closed at $3.30. Lasco Manufacturing rose 45 cents and closed at $4.90 with 801,743 shares trading, Medical Disposables traded 53,000 shares and closed at $4, Sweet River had just 1,150 shares changing hands at $3.85 and Eppley redeemable 2019 preference share, traded 80,000 shares, unchanged at $6.10.
Grace trade 27.9m shares
September 16, 2016 by
Grace Kennedy traded 27.9 million shares valued at $1,161,862,567 but Scotia Group’s traded at earlier $32.40 helping to move the main market indices upwards. 
Scotia eventually fell back from the mornings high by mid-morning.
The junior market rose moderately, Jetcon Corporation rose 10 cents to a new high of $4.10 with 4,300 units trading and Lasco Distributors traded 3,734,752 units at $7.05. In the main market, Cable & Wireless traded 513,700 shares at 80 cents, National Commercial Bank traded 309,258 units at $40 and Scotia Group traded 190,191 units and fell back $1.45 to $30.06.
At 10:45 am 22 securities traded, resulting in a volume of 33,336,371 shares carrying a value of $1,215,936,825 changing hands compared to 3,624,650 shares carrying a value of $1,765,042 on Thursday. The average number of shares traded amounts to 1,515,290 units compared to 9,488 units on Thursday. The number of stocks falling are 4 while the prices of 8 securities rose as the market continues to consolidate.
The all Jamaica Composite Index gained 820.63 points to 178,889.28, the Jamaica Stock Exchange Market Index climbed 733.78 points to 161,000.59, the Jamaica Stock Exchange combined index rose 752.52 points to close at 172,783.54 and the junior market index rose 7.01 points to 2,284.94.
