In a week when the Junior Market slipped just one percent after 32 points fall and the Main Market nearly 4,000 points for a fall of just under one percent, there was little change to the ICTOP10 listings, but change there was.
Jetcon Corporation came into the TOP10 in the prior week and enjoyed a modest pickup from 91 cents and is overtaken by tTech after the price fell from $4.70 last week to $4.20 this past week.
The highlights for this past week are Future Energy Source, Sygnus Credit Investments, after posting full year profit, Radio Jamaica, with Lumber Depot coming into focus, Fontana, Scotia Group and Jamaica Broilers that all released quarterly results with differing outcomes.
Following the release of outstanding first quarter and full year results last week, Sygnus Credit Investments announced a dividend of 0.262 of a US cent payable on October 15, but the stock price pulled back from $16.30 last week to $15.16. Radio Jamaica made some recovery to close the week at $3.58, up from $3.17. The company also announced a 2 cents dividend to be paid in mid-October, but the stocks appear to stay below $4 for a while, with demand currently weak above $3.50.
Elsewhere, Future Energy Source, a former ICInsider.com BUY RATED stock that underwent a sharp pullback last week to $2.05 rose this past week to $2.51 as buying interest remains strong. Lumber Depot sits just below the ICTOP10 Junior Market stocks, after posting strong first quarter results that rose 140 percent over the 2020 first quarter, with ICInsider.com projecting earnings now at 35 cents per share, up from 27 cents previously, for the current year and the potential for the price to double into early 2022. Fontana reported increased earnings of $512 million, up from $277 million with earnings per share of 41 cents, just 4 cents below ICInsider.com forecast. Jamaica Broilers posted lower first quarter profit of $275 million, down from $383 million as the Jamaican and Haitian segments posted lower profits, but the USA segment enjoyed an 84 percent jump.
Scotia Group reported profit of $2.8 billion an increase of 81 percent over the depressed 2020 third quarter and slightly more than the $2.7 billion generated in the April quarter, the group seems on target to earn around $3.50 per share for the year.
The top three Main Market stocks are, Berger Paints followed by JMMB Group and Guardian Holdings, with expected gains of 202 to 290 percent, versus last weeks’ 209 to 286 percent.
The top three stocks in the Junior Market are Elite Diagnostic, followed by Medical Disposables and General Accident. All three have the potential to gain between 224 percent and 291 percent, compared to 233 and 275 percent last week.
This past week, the average gains projected for the Junior Market rose from 198 percent to 209 percent and Main Market stocks moved from 173 percent to 170 percent.
The Junior Market closed the week with an average PE of 11.3 based on ICInsider.com’s 2021-22 earnings and currently trades well below the target of 20 and the historical average of 17 for the period to March this year based on 2020 earnings.
The TOP 10 trades at a PE of 6.6, with a 42 percent discount to that market’s PE and the potential to rise 77 percent to March next year, based on an average PE of 20.
The JSE Main Market ended the week with an overall PE of 16, a little distance from 19 the market ended at in March, suggesting a 19 percent rise at a PE of 19 and 25 percent at a PE of 20 from now to March 2022. The Main Market TOP 10 trades at a PE of 7.7, with a 52 percent discount to the PE of that market, well off the potential of 20.
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Trading ended with seven securities changing hands, compared to eight on Thursday, with prices of two rising, three declining, and two remaining unchanged.
At the close, First Rock Capital remained at 6.8 US cents after exchanging 15,600 shares, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy fell 16 cents in ending at US$1.04 in an exchange of 11 stocks, Proven Investments climbed 0.3 of a cent in closing at 24 US cents after trading 195,540 units. Sterling Investments declined 0.06 of a cent to end at 1.74 US cents after crossing the market with 3,600 stock units, Sygnus Credit Investments US$ share advanced 0.3 of a cent to 12.5 US cents in exchanging 20,489 stock units and Transjamaican Highway dropped 0.02 of a cent to close at 0.88 US cents after trading 255,000 shares.
The volume of stocks trading on Wednesday surged 2,242 percent, while the value fell 57 percent from Tuesday’s levels, resulting in more stocks falling than rising at the close of the JSE USD market.
August ended with an average of 210,413 units for US$12,959.
Trading activity dropped sharply on Tuesday and ended with the volume of shares changing hands plunging 65 percent after trading ended, with far less funds than on Monday, at the close of the US dollar market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, resulting in more stocks falling than rising.
August ended with an average of 210,413 units for US$12,959.
Proven Investments popped 0.22 of a cent to 23.7 US cents with a transfer of 541 stock units. Sterling Investments settled at 2 US cents with 9,962 stocks traded, Sygnus Credit Investments USD stock finished at 12.5 US cents with investors swapping 9,536 shares and Transjamaican Highway popped 0.12 of a cent to 0.93 US cents with 5 units crossing the exchange.
Elsewhere,
This past week the average gains projected for the Junior Market rose from 191 percent to 198 percent and Main Market stocks from 168 percent to 173 percent.
The JSE Main Market ended the week with an overall PE of 15.6, a little distance from the 19 the market ended at in March, suggesting a 22 percent rise at a PE of 19 and 28 percent at a PE of 20 from now to March 2022. The Main Market TOP 10 trades at a PE of 7.6, with a 51 percent discount to the PE of that market, well off the potential of 20.
ICInsider.com ranks stocks to filter out the bigger winners, allowing investors to focus on potentially huge winners and helping to keep out emotional attachments to stocks that often result in costly mistakes being made.
At the close of the market on Friday, stocks closed out the week with just three trading, down from five on Thursday and ended with none gaining, two declining and one left unchanged, with the volume of shares changing hands dropping 76 percent from Thursday’s level, on the US dollar market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange
August ended with an average of 210,413 units for US$12,959.
Five securities traded, the same as Wednesday, with prices of one stock rising, three declining and one remaining unchanged.
At the close, Margaritaville shed 0.25 of a cent to close at 8.75 US cents trading 1,366 shares, Proven Investments fell 0.02 of a cent to end at 23.48 US cents with an exchange of 7,715 stock units, Sygnus Credit Investments Ja$ share, climbed 2.39 cents to 14.59 US cents after an exchange of 7,772 stocks. Sygnus Credit Investments US$ share, declined 0.2 of a cent to 12.5 US cents after 59,094 units crossed the market and Transjamaican Highway remained at 0.81 US cents while exchanging 44,000 shares.
Five securities changed hands, compared to six on Tuesday with none rising, three declining and two remaining unchanged.
At the close, Margaritaville remained at 9 US cents with 2,000 shares traded, Proven Investments fell 0.4 of a cent to 23.5 US cents with 1,050 stocks changing hands, Sygnus Credit Investments JMD stock settled at 12.2 US cents with 3 units changing hands. Sygnus Credit Investments USD stock lost 0.3 of a cent to settle at 12.7 US cents with investors switching ownership of 194 units and Transjamaican Highway declined by 0.09 of a cent to 0.81 US cents with 28,000 shares crossing the exchange.
Investments gained 0.9 of a cent to close at 23.9 US cents after exchanging 21,891 stock units, Sterling Investments lost 0.12 of a cent to end at 2 US cents after exchanging 223 units. Sygnus Credit Investments Ja$ share dropped 0.4 of a cent in ending at 12.2 US cents, with 270 stocks clearing the market, Sygnus Credit Investments US$ share remained unchanged at 13 US cents while exchanging 3,839 units and Transjamaican Highway climbed 0.09 of a cent to 0.9 US cents, with 485,562 stocks changing hands.