The Class B Shares of Trinidad and Tobago NGL Limited was listed on the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange on Monday and gained TT$3 to close at $23 from the offering for sale price of $20. The company saw trading in 18,000 shares valued at $414,000. The stock closed with a bid of $23 to buy 362,287 shares with none on offer, a good sign that the price is headed higher with a PE ratio of less than 10 times this year’s earnings.
The company generated an operating profit of US$15 million for the March quarter of 2015, a fall of 65.5 percent compared to the 2014 quarter. Earnings per share based on the annualised first quarter results, is 25 TT cents. A total of 75.8 million out of 116,100,000 issued shares, were offered to the public to raise $1.5 billion for the government of Trinidad and Tobago.
Activity elsewhere on the Stock Exchange, on Monday ended with 11 securities trading. At the close, there was just 1 stock closing higher, declined and 9 remained unchanged as a total of 33,337 units traded, valued at $651,432. At the close the Composite Index ending with a rise of 3.57 points at 1,150.15, the All T&T Index gained 7.08 to 1,953.33 and the Cross Listed Index was unchanged at 45.52.
Losses| Clico Investment Fund closed with 800 shares changing hands to end at $22.50, after falling 1 cent.
Firm Trades| First Citizens Bank traded 2,851 shares and closed at $35, Flavorite Foods contributed 2,200 shares in trading, to close at $4.80, Grace Kennedy had 2,502 units changing hands at $3.60, Guardian Holdings with 4,986 shares trading, closed at $13.13. Guardian Media traded 888 shares with the price remaining at $19.76, Massy Holdings traded 50 shares with the price ending at $62.46, Republic Bank closed with 28 shares trading for $112, Sagicor Financial Corporation closed with 950 shares changing hands, to end at $6 and Scotiabank ended with 82 shares trading to end at $62.50.
IC bid-offer Indicator| At the end of trading the Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator had 4 stocks with the bid higher than the last selling price and 4 stocks with offers that were lower.