NCB Financial continues to make a B recovery, on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, with the stock gaining $3 after closing at $47 on Monday, and is now up Bly by 71 percent from the recent low of $27.50 on August 4, helping drive the major indices of the Main Market higher, while the Junior Market index declined and the JSE USD Market popped higher. At the end of trading, the prices of 26 shares rose, 63 declined and 26 remained firm.

At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index popped 418.63 points higher to 328,594.09, the All Jamaican Composite Index rallied 743.81 points to end at 368,332.06, the JSE Main Index gained 541.83 points to settle at 318,501.75, the Junior Market Index lost 14.07 points to 3,353.41 and the JSE USD Market Index gained 0.58 points to 205.43.
Trading closed on Monday with a decline in the volume of stocks exchanged, with a lower value than on Friday, with 14,136,447 shares trading in all three markets, down from 34,173,098 units on Friday, resulting in the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $157.71 million, down from $200.62 million on the previous day. The JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 61,580 shares for US$21,533 compared to 102,680 units at US$6,965 on Friday.
In Main Market activity, Transjamaican Highway led trading with 3.36 million shares, followed by Wisynco Group with 1.94 million stock units and QWI Investments with 1.16 million units.
In Junior Market trading, Kintyre Holdings led with 681,240 shares, followed by Spur Tree Spices with 521,773 stock units and GWest Corporation with 470,430 units.
In the preference segment, Jamaica Public Service 9.5% sank $299 to $2,300, Productive Business Solutions 10.5% slipped $137.90 to end at $1,002 and Sygnus Credit Investments 10% lost $4.90 in closing at $100.
The market’s PE ratio, the most popular measure used to value stocks, ended at 13.2 based on 2025-26 earnings and 15.9 based on 2024-25 historical earnings.
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