NCB Financial Group enters TOP 10
The main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed at new record high on Friday, the seond week in a row that it doing so and in the process the all Jamaica Composite Index broke the 300,000 mark for the first time.
While the main market is making new highs, with gains of 43 percent for 2017, the junior market with gains of 30 percent at its peak this year, is now up just 12 percent for the year to date. Access Financial returned to the Junior Market list and NCB Financial to the main market list even as the latter price moved back to $91 at the end of the week and with just 33,603 units being offered for sale.
Suspension of the trading in Berger Paints shares is expected lifted on Tuesday, October 17. At the time of this report, no information was available on the level of take up of the buyout offer for the minority of the company’s shares by Ansa Coatings. The stock that traded at $11.25 when trading was suspended, should climb with the March 2018 full year’s earnings should hit $2.30 per share.
Investors continue to switch attention from Junior Market, to main market stocks, with the latter having pierced resistance around 300,000 points on the all Jamaica Composite Index could now be heading much higher as it moves on to the next major resistance at 360,000 point range on or before the end of the year.
At the close of Friday, the average PE ratio for the Junior Market Top stocks is at 7.9 and a PE at 7.1 for the main market TOP 10. The average PE for the overall main market trades at 13.5 and 13.1 for Junior Market, based on 2017 estimated earnings.
At the close of the week, IC Insider.com’s TOP 10 stocks now trade at an average discount of 40 percent to the average of the market for Junior Market Top stocks and it remains at 47 percent for the main market.
Stocks surged higher, at the close of trading on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Friday with the market ending at record closing levels as JMMB Group NCB Financial and Scotia Group record strong gains, pushing the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index to a record close of 300,363.16.
In market activity, volumes are those trades for the day and the closing prices are those at which the last trade took place. At the close on market activity, Barita Investments ended trading with a loss of $1 at $8, with 40,452 stock units trading, Cable & Wireless finished at $1.10, with 42,361 units, Caribbean Cement settled 54 cents higher at $26.55, with 3,000 shares, Carreras closed at $12, after 462,635 stock units changed hands, Grace Kennedy closed with a loss of 5 cents at $42.75, with 12,005 shares. Jamaica Broilers ended with a loss of 5 cents at $17.95, with 1,858 units, Jamaica Producers ended trading at $16, with 2,278 stock units, Jamaica Stock Exchange concluded trading $1.20 higher at $7.20, with 1,064,940 shares switching owners, JMMB Group finished $3 higher at $26, after trading 21,667 units, Mayberry Investments ended trading with a loss of 40 cents at $4.10, with 15,378 shares. PanJam Investment ended with a loss of $3.48 to $38.52, with 9,732 units, 
Portland JSX ended trading after falling 50 cents to an all-time low of $8.50, with 50,000 stock units after the company reported a loss for the six months to August of US$221,251. Radio Jamaica settled at $1.15, trading 10,100 shares, Sagicor Group traded with a loss of $1.49 cents at $38.51, with 7,700 units changing hands, Sagicor Real Estate Fund finished trading 4 cents higher at $13.25, with 19,700 stock units, after it traded at an all-time high of $15. Salada Foods closed at $8.50, with 350,000 shares, Scotia Group ended $3.08 higher at $50.98, with 414,399 stock units, Seprod traded 339 units at $30 and Supreme Ventures finished 37 cents higher at $11.85, with 130,790 shares.
Firm Trades| The last traded prices of securities and the volume traded unchanged at the close of trading are Angostura Holdings holding firm at $15 with 300,000 shares valued at $4,500,040, Ansa Merchant Bank traded 1,950 units at $40, First Citizens closed at $31.76 exchanging 2,375 units. Grace Kennedy exchanged 50,020 shares at $2.90, Guardian Holdings ended at $15.25 with trades of 4,073 shares, Massy Holdings remained at $50.50 with 2,733 units changing hands. Point Lisas closed at $4 trading 4,000 shares, Republic Financial Holdings exchanged 5,000 shares at $101.80 with a value of $509,000 and Trinidad Cement remained at $4.21 with 81,873 shares trading valued at $344,478.
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In market activity, volumes are those trades for the day and the closing prices are those at which the last trade took place. In the main activity, Barita Investments concluded trading 24 cents higher at $8, with 10,673 units changing hands, Cable & Wireless rose 2 cents to $1.02, with 126,398 shares, Caribbean Cement ended at $28, with just 144 units, Carreras ended trading with a loss of 2 cents at $13.48, with 252,898 stock units changing hands, Grace Kennedy finished with a loss of 40 cents at $43, in trading 38,318 units. Jamaica Broilers settled with a loss of 50 cents at $18, while exchanging 8,266 stock units, Jamaica Producers concluded trading with a loss of 80 cents at $15.20, with 6,459 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange finished 10 cents higher at $7.70, with 27,315 units, JMMB Group traded 89 cents higher at $26, with 36,897 stock units, Kingston Properties settled with a loss of 5 cents at $7.15, with 2,000 units, 
Kingston Wharves finished 75 cents higher at $30.75, with 20,539 shares. Mayberry Investments exchanged 9,218 stock units at $4.50, property company, 138 Student Living finished 1 cent higher at $5.41, with 2,700 shares, PanJam Investment shed $1 to end at $43, with 11,244 stock units, Pulse Investments traded with a loss of 2 cents at $1.80, trading 69,750 shares, Radio Jamaica settled with a loss of 9 cents at $1.11, with 87,688 units. Sagicor Group jumped $4.99 to a record $39.99, with 52,394 shares, Sagicor Real Estate Fund closed with a loss of 8 cents at $13, after trading 3,100,000 units, Scotia Group fell 96 cents to $50, with 91,270 stock units, Seprod settled with a loss of $1.50 at $28.50, with 8,160 shares and Supreme Ventures finished with a loss of 60 cents at $9.50, with 306,999,685 stock units changing hands. In the main market preference segment, JMMB Group closed at $1.15, with 600 units and in the US dollar market Productive Business Solution rose 0.25 US cents in trading 2,300 units to close at 60 US cents.
trading, Grace Kennedy ended trading 40 cents higher at $43.40, with 61,347 stock units, 
PanJam Investment traded at $44, with 7,913 shares, Radio Jamaica finished 5 cents higher at $1.20, with 31,981 units, Sagicor Group traded 47 cents higher at $35, with 2,916,828 stock units traded. 
Market activity on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange on Friday improved with trading levels rising above the previous day’s low. Trading closed with 12 securities changing hands compared to 11 on Thursday.
Losses| The last traded price of the securities declining and the volume changing hands are Angostura Holdings with a loss of 10 cents, closing at $15 with 373 units, Clico Investment lost 1 cent, in ending at $21.50 with 24,383 shares valued at $524,417, One Caribbean Media traded 14 cents lower, closing at $14.10 with 400,040 shares valued at $5,640,568 and Unilever Caribbean closed at a 52 weeks’ low of $46.01, losing 1 cent trading 451 units.
The Main Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange closed at a new record high 
In the market activity, volume and prices quoted are amounts traded for the day at the last trading price. In the main activity, Cable & Wireless ended trading 1 cent higher at $1, with 640,469 stock units, Caribbean Cement dropped $2.59 to $26.01, with just 400 units, Carreras traded 542,284 shares, to close at $12. Grace Kennedy fell 45 cents to end at $43, with 49,438 shares, Jamaica Broilers traded 49 cents higher at $18.99, with 6,020 stock units. Jamaica Producers settled with a loss of $1 at $15, with 93,586 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange traded with a loss of 20 cents at $7.60, with 1,739 stock units, JMMB Group closed $2.50 higher at a record close of $25, with 371,074 shares. Kingston Properties traded with a loss of 20 cents at $7.20, with 1,400 stock units, 
Kingston Wharves concluded trading at $31.50, with 4,080 units. 1834 Investments concluded trading at $1.38, with 1,843 shares, PanJam Investment settled $2.15 higher at $44, with 5,905 stock units, Radio Jamaica settled at $1.15, with 2,500 shares, Sagicor Group settled 3 cents higher at $34.53, with 23,475 stock units, Sagicor Real Estate Fund ended at $13.08, with 300 units changing hands. Salada Foods finished at $8.50, with 10,000 stock units, Scotia Group ended trading $1.98 higher at $50.98, with 185,115 stock units, Seprod traded $1.95 higher at $30, with 13,026 shares and Supreme Ventures ended with a loss of $1 at $11, with 1,783,545 shares.
Barita Investments ended trading with a loss of 24 cents at $7.76, with 2,150 units changing hands, Berger Paints lost 45 cents at $11.25, with 77,437 shares, Cable & Wireless ended with a loss of 6 cents at $0.99, with 2,312,610 stocks units trading, Caribbean Cement finished 60 cents higher at $28.60, with 3,500 units, Carreras finished with a loss of 60 cents at $12, with 787,049 shares trading. Grace Kennedy closed at $43.45, with 6,516 shares, Jamaica Broilers ended with a loss of 30 cents at $18.50, with 35,182 units, Jamaica Producers gained 95 cents to end at $16, with 14,581 shares, Jamaica Stock Exchange finished with a loss of 19 cents at $7.80, with 5,832 stock units, JMMB Group ended trading with a loss of 20 cents at $22.50, with 264,042 stock units changing hands, Kingston Wharves ended trading at $31.50, with just 100 stock units, 
Mayberry Investments finished 89 cents higher at $4.99, with 209,716 shares, 138 Student Living ended 60 cents higher at $5.40, with 10,000 stock units, PanJam Investment traded with a loss of $1.20 at $41.85, with 7,370 units, Pulse Investments closed 17 cents higher at $1.82, with 26,600 shares trading. Radio Jamaica closed 4 cents higher at $1.15, with 77,200 stock units, Sagicor Group ended with a loss of 3 cents at $34.50, trading 24,279 stock units, Scotia Group closed at $49, trading 4,559 units, Seprod ended with a loss of $1.95 at $28.05, with 1,594 shares. Sterling Investments finished 20 cents higher at $12.25, with 2,486 stock units, Supreme Ventures ended trading $1 higher at $12, with 319,536 shares and in the main market preference segment, JMMB Group settled with a loss of 4 cents at $1.15, with 9,853 units changing hands.
Trading levels dropped sharply at the close on Wednesday on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange with 9 securities changing hands compared to 12 on Tuesday with 1 rising, 4 declining and 4 remaining unchanged as 151,676 shares traded at a value of $794,116 compared to Tuesday’s trades of 221,213 units valued at $3,516,269. 
Scotiabank lost 3 cents, closing at $58.02 with 4,879 shares and Trinidad & Tobago NGL traded 10 cents lower to $23 with 1,650 units.
Grace Kennedy closed 45 cents higher at $43.45, with 170,391 stock units, Jamaica Broilers concluded trading 30 cents higher at $18.80, with 19,831 shares, Jamaica Producers ended trading with a loss of 45 cents at $15.05, with 25,823 units, Jamaica Stock Exchange ended with a loss of 1 cent at $7.99, with 17,681 shares. JMMB Group closed with a loss of 30 cents at $22.70, with 46,302 stock units trading, Kingston Wharves closed 50 cents higher at $31.50, with 1,177 units, Mayberry Investments ended trading with a loss of 70 cents at $4.10, with 35,723 shares changing hands, 1834 Investments ended at $1.38, with 5,000 stock units trading, 
PanJam Investment traded 55 cents higher at $43.05, with 36,636 shares, Portland JSX concluded trading with a loss of 28 cents at $9, with 10,000 units, Pulse Investments traded 25 cents higher at $1.65, with 25,236 units, Radio Jamaica ended trading with a loss of 4 cents at $1.11, with 17,206 stock units, Sagicor Group finished at $34.53, with 222,778 shares trading. Sagicor Real Estate Fund finished with a loss of 72 cents at $13.08, with 76,479,720 units, Scotia Group settled $2.90 higher at $49, with 57,385 units, Seprod closed at $30, with 31,820 shares, 
