The market index surged sharply on Monday, but the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange could not build on those gains in Tuesday activity and slipped 13.24 points to 2,578.31, with more stocks rising than falling as investors exchanged 74 percent fewer shares than on Monday.
Trading ended with 34 securities changing hands compared to 38 on Monday and concluded with the prices of 14 stocks rising, 11 declining and nine finishing unchanged. At the close, the average PE Ratio ended at 13.7 based on ICInsider.com’s forecast of 2020-21 earnings.
The market closed with 3,559,517 shares trading for $10,255,036 compared to 13,471,646 units at $33,806,568 on Monday as Mailpac Group led trading with 26.4 percent of total volume for an exchange of 939,501 shares. Limners and Bards chipped in with 14.1 percent of the day’s trade resulting in a transfer of 501,415 units and Caribbean Flavours closed with 8.5 percent market share or 303,996 stocks.
Trading averaged 104,692 units at $301,619 in contrast to 354,517 at $889,647 on Monday. Trading month to date averaged 301,073 units at $692,446, compared to 320,769 units at $731,644 on 
Monday. November averaged 193,331 units at $566,885.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows four stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and one with a lower offer.
At the close of the market, Blue Power climbed 36 cents to $3.36 with 30,050 shares changing hands, Caribbean Assurance Brokers fell 16 cents to $1.74 with an exchange of 2,579 stock units, Caribbean Cream rose 10 cents to $4.10 with 54,939 stocks passing through the market. Caribbean Flavours traded 303,996 units and fell by 2 cents to $1.68, Caribbean Producers slipped 5 cents to $2.90 in transferring 64,780 shares, Dolphin Cove gained 20 cents to end at $7 with investors swapping 36,500 stock units. Elite Diagnostic lost 9 cents to end at $2.96 with 26,650 stocks changing hands, Express Catering advanced 16 cents to $3.65 with an exchange of 20,900 shares, Fontana fell 13 cents to $5.30 with 288,680 stock units crossing the market. Fosrich jumped 57 cents and traded 15,127 stocks to finish at $4, General Accident rose 14 cents to $6.10 trading 17,625 units, Honey Bun gained 20 cents to close at $6 with switching ownership of 123,002 shares. iCreate dropped 10 cents to 60 cents with 49,106 stock units changing hands, Jamaican Teas ended 1 cent higher at $1.91 with an exchange of 265,431 stocks, Knutsford Express slipped 2 cents to $5.98 with 55,732 units passing through the market. Lasco Distributors fell 25 cents to $3.20 in trading 34,191 shares. Lasco Financial lost 10 cents to settle at $2.68 with investors switching ownership of 5,000 units, Lasco Manufacturing advanced 19 cents to $3.89 with 14,118 stocks changing hands. 
Limners and Bards exchanged 501,415 stock units and rose 15 cents to finish at $3, Lumber Depot gained 10 cents to close at $1.60 with 117,993 shares passing through the market, Mailpac Group traded 939,501 units and lost 10 cents to close at $2.63. Main Event rose 6 cents to $3.05 with a transfer of 127,073 stocks, Medical Disposables gained 10 cents to end at $4 with the trading of 2,000 stock units, SSL Venture climbed 10 cents to 55 cents with 39,100 units changing hands and tTech dropped 21 cents to $4.09 with 6,731 shares crossing the exchange.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
At the close of the market, Access Financial fell 10 cents to $20.10 with an exchange of 8,666 shares, AMG Packaging declined 22 cents to $1.46 with 158,125 stocks changing hands, Blue Power dropped 36 cents to $3 with 15,265 units trading. CAC 2000 jumped $2 to $10 with 2,182 shares traded, Cargo Handlers lost 20 cents to close at $6.80 with a transfer of 100 stock units, Caribbean Producers inched 1 cent higher to $2.95 with an exchange of 21,296 units. Derrimon Trading rose 25 cents to $2.50 with 1,235 stocks changing hands, Dolphin Cove climbed 80 cents to $6.80 with investors switching 161 shares, Elite Diagnostic gained 5 cents to close at $3.05 with 43,857 stock units traded. Everything Fresh closed 4 cents higher at 75 cents with a transfer of 2,412 stocks, Fontana slipped 7 cents to $5.43 with 127,515 units passing through the market, Fosrich exchanged 2,852,248 shares and shed 56 cents to end at $3.43. General Accident dropped 14 cents to $5.96 with 51,248 units changing hands, GWest Corporation rose 2 cents to 77 cents with a transfer of 1,000 stock units, Honey Bun fell 69 cents to $5.80 with 31,194 stocks changing hands. iCreate gained 11 cents to finish at 70 cents with 25,769 shares passing through the market, Indies Pharma slipped 2 cents to $2.48 with an exchange of 31,307 stocks, Iron Rock Insurance advanced 22 cents to $3.10 after trading 725 stock units.
Lasco Manufacturing dropped 20 cents to $3.70 with 708 shares changing hands, Limners and Bards rose 6 cents to $2.85 with a transfer of 180,351 units, Lumber Depot increased 16 cents to $1.50 with 628,682 stocks passing through the market. Mailpac Group traded 3,053,112 stock units and settled with a gain of 13 cents to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $2.73 after the price bolted to an intraday record high of $3.10. Main Event declined 1 cent to $2.99 with 15,369 units trading, Medical Disposables fell 10 cents to $3.90 with investors switching ownership of 4,295 stocks. SSL Venture dropped 14 cents to a 52 weeks’ low of 45 cents with 100,000 units changing hands and Tropical Battery slipped 1 cent to $1.16 with 90,846 shares crossing the exchange.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows four stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and four with lower offers.
Lumber Depot lost 2 cents in ending at $1.34, with 132,904 shares changing hands, Mailpac Group gained 25 cents to end at a record high of $2.60 trading 619,404 shares, Medical Disposables lost 2 cents to end at $4, after 5,102 units were traded. Paramount Trading rose 2 cents to $1.54, in exchanging 4,528 units, SSL Venture closed 7 cents lower at 59 cents trading 12,552 units, Stationery and Office Supplies rose 95 cents to $4.55, with 1,470 units changing hands and Tropical Battery gained 4 cents to close at $1.17 after an exchange of 164,691 shares.
At the close of the market, Blue Power lost 2 cents to end at $3.36, with 1,330 units passing through the market, Caribbean Assurance Brokers gained 8 cents to close at $1.88 after an exchange of 18,613 stock units, Caribbean Cream lost 1 cent in closing at $4.02, trading 29,376 stock units. Caribbean Producers rose 24 cents to $2.94, with an exchange of a mere 500 units, Consolidated Bakeries gained 28 cents, in ending at $1.40 trading 1,082 shares, Derrimon Trading shed 20 cents to settle at $2.30, after exchanging 10,000 stock units. Dolphin Cove dropped $1 to $6 in transferring 2,000 units, Everything Fresh lost 5 cents to close at 66 cents trading 40,151 shares, Express Catering gained 10 cents to finish at $3.50, with 3,350 units changing hands. Fontana picked up 5 cents in closing at $5.45, with an exchange of 124,807 shares, Fosrich lost 3 cents in ending at $3.96 and trading 6,579 units, General Accident gained 10 cents to $6.10, with 20,650 stock units crossing the market. Honey Bun rose 28 cents to end at $5.98, with 20,525 stock units changing hands, Indies Pharma lost 13 cents to close at $2.37, in transferring 27,616 stock units, ISP Finance climbed $2 to $19, after trading 4,759 units. Jamaican Teas gained 8 cents to settle at $1.88, exchanging 795,272 shares, Jetcon Corporation rose 4 cents to 79 cents trading 12,429 stock units, Lasco Distributors closed 25 cents higher at $3.45, with an exchange of 10,000 units. Lasco Financial slipped 10 cents to close at $2.55 after 80,500 shares passed through the market, Lasco Manufacturing gained 16 cents in closing at $3.85, with investors swapping 18,615 stock units, Limners and Bards gained 10 cents to close at $2.70 trading 8,691 units. 
Lumber Depot closed at $1.36, with gains of 18 cents as investors swapped 967,216 shares, Mailpac Group added 10 cents in closing at $2.35 trading 1,348,067 shares, SSL Venture gained 10 cents to settle at 66 cents, in exchanging 100,000 shares. Stationery and Office Supplies shed 50 cents to $3.60 after transferring 9,460 units and Tropical Battery lost 6 cents to close at $1.13, exchanging 366,394 shares.
The market closed with an exchange of 49,121,788 shares for $110,386,381, up from 3,445,343 units at $7,674,800 on Monday. Mailpac Group led trading with 44.23 million shares, followed by Caribbean Producers with 6.3 percent of the day’s trade with an exchange of 3.11 million units and Jamaican Teas with 0.9 percent market share with a transfer of 426,360 units.
At the close of the market, Access Financial jumped $2.11 to $22.06 with an exchange of 10 shares, AMG Packaging slipped 9 cents to $1.60 with 1,597 stocks changing hands, Blue Power dropped 43 cents to $3 with owners switching 5,010 stock units. Cargo Handlers shed 88 cents and traded 2,000 units to close at $6.32, Caribbean Assurance Brokers gained 7 cents to finish at $1.80 with 13,146 shares passing through the market, Caribbean Flavours lost 5 cents to end at $1.70 with a transfer of 5,451 stocks. Derrimon Trading fell 24 cents to $2.31 with an exchange of 27,140 units, Dolphin Cove rose 76 cents to $7 with 6,740 stock units changing hands, Everything Fresh slipped 6 cents to 65 cents with 137,787 shares changing hands. Fontana rose 6 cents to $5.45 with 410,784 stocks traded Fosrich gained 39 cents to $3.99 with 50,004 units passing through the market, General Accident rose 4 cents to end at $6 with a transfer of 8,677 stock units. Honey Bun gained 20 cents to close at $5.70, in exchanging 54,932 shares, iCreate increased 5 cents to 67 cents with 1,736 units changing hands, Indies Pharma advanced 14 cents to $2.50, after trading 2,750 stock units. Iron Rock Insurance climbed 15 cents to $2.95 with 35,035 stocks passing through the market, ISP Finance jumped $6.05 to $23.05 with a transfer of 500 shares, Jamaican Teas traded 426,360 stock units and rose 8 cents to $1.88. Lasco Distributors slipped 1 cent to $3.17 with 25,684 stocks changing hands, Lasco Financial gained 6 cents to close at $2.71 with an exchange of 8,328 units, Lasco Manufacturing advanced 22 cents to $3.90 with investors switching ownership of 37,767 shares.
Lumber Depot rose 2 cents to $1.20 with 150,700 stock units passing through the market, Mailpac Group traded 44,229,960 shares in adding 1 cent to close at $2.19, Medical Disposables advanced 13 cents to $4.14 with a transfer of 24,644 units. SSL Venture slipped 2 cents to 53 cents exchanging 18,220 shares, Stationery and Office Supplies declined by 5 cents to $4 with 3,350 stock units changing hands, Tropical Battery gained 6 cents to finish at $1.19 with 41,500 units traded and Tech climbed 21 cents to $4.30 with 35 stocks crossing the exchange.
Trading ended with 33 securities changing hands compared to 29 on Thursday and concluded with the prices of 11 stocks rising, 16 declining and six remaining unchanged.
Trading averaged 114,080 units at $235,290 in contrast to 249,352 at $600,698 on Thursday. The month to date averaged 160,524 units at $366,841, compared to 176,657 units at $412,538 on Thursday. November ended with an average of 193,331 units at $566,885.
Limners and Bards gained 2 cents to settle at $2.70 with 6,318 stocks changing hands, Lumber Depot slipped 2 cents and exchanged 909,101 shares at $1.18, Mailpac Group traded 463,285 stocks and rose 4 cents to $2.19. Main Event jumped 25 cents to $3.25 with 3,076 units changing hands, Medical Disposables lost 1 cent to finish at $4.34 with a transfer of 10,840 stock units, SSL Venture slipped 2 cents to 54 cents with 10,000 shares passing through the market. Tropical Battery fell 5 cents to $1.15 with 50,919 stocks traded and tTech dropped 21 cents to $4.09 with 55,081 units crossing the exchange.
Trading ended with 29 stocks changing hands compared to 31 on Wednesday, with the prices of nine rising, 11 declining and nine remaining unchanged.
November trading averaged 193,331 units at $566,885.
At the end of trading, the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading for the market shows five stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and one with a lower offer.
Limners and Bards settled at $2.70, with gains of 20 cents with 62,241 shares changing hands, Lumber Depot gained 3 cents to close at $1.23, after exchanging 365,322 shares, Mailpac Group lost 1 cent to end at $2.19 trading 759,011 shares. Main Event lost 3 cents to close at $3, in exchanging 7,271 units, Medical Disposables jumped 46 cents to $4.39, with 500 units passing through the market, Tropical Battery gained 3 cents to close at $1.20, clearing the market with 6,082 units and tTech ended 22 cents higher at $4.30, after crossing the exchange with 8,950 units.
October averaged 230,868 units at $535,509.
Jamaican Teas lost 4 cents to end at $2.01, after clearing the market with 795,817 shares, Jetcon Corporation ended at 82 cents, with gains of 7 cents while trading 43,464 shares, Knutsford Express slid 29 cents to $5.71, with the swapping of 566 units. Lasco Financial lost 5 cents to end at $2.55 after exchanging 25,684 stock units, Lasco Manufacturing lost 14 cents to $3.66, after trading 57,387 stock units, Limners and Bards carved out a gain of 13 cents to end at $2.63, in an exchange of 210,501 shares. Lumber Depot rose 14 cents to $1.35, with 259,988 shares changing hands, Mailpac Group climbed 7 cents to $2.21, with 1,717,151 stock units changing hands, Medical Disposables shed 42 cents to close at $3.93, with the trading of 77,098 shares. Paramount Trading rose 18 cents to close at $1.50, with an exchange of 665 units, SSL Venture lost 4 cents to end at 53 cents, switching of ownership of 1,100 units, Stationery and Office Supplies ended at $4.43, after losing 12 cents transferring 4,152 units and Tropical Battery gained 13 cents to close at $1.23, in trading 1,579,900 shares.
ISP Finance surged $6.39 to $22.50 with 2,270 stocks changing hands, after a three for one stock split, Jamaican Teas exchanged 502,383 shares and added 9 cents to settle at a post-split price of $2.05, Jetcon Corporation rose 5 cents to 75 cents with the transfer of 5,539 units. Lasco Financial rose 20 cents to close at $2.60 with 40,000 shares crossing the exchange, Lasco Manufacturing declined 10 cents to $3.80 with the trading of 5,375 stocks, Limners and Bards gained 5 cents to settle at $2.50 and switching ownership of 31,000 units. Lumber Depot traded 508,099 shares and lost 7 cents to end at $1.21, Medical Disposables jumped 42 cents to close at $4.35 with 4,000 stocks crossing the market, Stationery and Office Supplies gained 5 cents to finish at $4.55 with 8,958 units changing hands. Tropical Battery slipped 6 cents to $1.10 with 256,976 stocks traded and tTech shed 30 cents to $4.60 with 74,427 shares crossing the exchange.
