Transjamaican Highway with earnings on track to reach 39 cents per share for the year, ended as the top performing company on the Jamaica Stock Exchange at the end of November with the stock price rising 81 percent and ending the month at a record closing high of $4.88 and is up 88 percent when dividends of 19 cents paid during the year are included.

A measure of the Main Market performance can be gleaned from the All Jamaica Composite Index recording a mild increase to the end of November, with a cut in interest rates from just under 12 percent to 6.7 percent, with the market starting to rise from a bottom in September to a nine and a half months high at month end.
In the period, almost half of the Main Market listed ordinary stocks recorded gains in the first 11 months of this year while 26 declined and one remained unchanged. Former Junior Market listed, Lasco Manufacturing delivered a solid 66 percent rally during the period. Energy producer Wigton with ownership restrictions lifted earlier in the year, rose a robust 59 percent followed by cigarette marketer Carreras, with a 38 percent increase, with First Rock and General Accident each gaining 32 percent and QWI Investments 31 percent.
The top 10 losing stocks, recorded losses from 14 to 44 percent, with Pulse Investments as the leading loser dropping a hefty 44 percent, following the loss of its founder and chief executive earlier in the year, RJR Group, with a torrid year of lower revenues and heavy losses, was next with a decline of 36 percent followed by Proven Investments down 26 percent, with profit under pressure, NCB Group, with an increased supply of stock on the market following a tepidly received additional share issue in May this year, suffered a 26 loss and Sagicor Group 19 percent.