Wigton Windfarm traded 472.8 million shares to close at a record 83 cents and NCB Financial Group closed at $153 to help push the JSE main market to a tenth record close for the year.
At the close, the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index jumped 4,339.37 points to a record close of 458,665.39 and the JSE Index climbed 3,943.35 points to a new record of 417,795.08.
Wigton Windfarm shares were trading for the second day on the exchange after a successful Initial Public Offer and has gained just over 60 percent so far. The market closed with Wigton having 129 million shares on the bid to buy and 39.8 million units on offer of shares. The stock closed with 10.9 million units on the bid at 83 cents and 2.09 million units are on offer at 84 cents.
Meanwhile the Junior Market index traded with a gain of 10.21 points to close at 3,138.66.
10th record closing high for JSE
Wigton pulls 11,772 new investors
Popular new stock issues have a way of electrifying stock markets and empower new stock market investors to increase their wealth.
It happen when National Commercial Bank went public in 1987 and again with the Wigton IPO.
“While the overall number of applications was 31,200, we are pleased to report that 11,772 or 38 percent are new investors to the market. This represents an increase in the number of account holders in the JCSD of 7.6 percent,” Marlene Street Forrest managing Director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange stated in addressing the observers at the listing ceremony of Wigton Windfarm listing on Wednesday.
Street Forrest went on to say, over 64 percent of those who invested were under 50 years of age with approximately 50 percent under 40 years old.” According to Street Forrest, females comprised 56 percent of the applicants for shares compared to 44 percent males. “The average spend for new investors was approximately $124,000 with the offer oversubscribed by 158.8 percent.”
Wigton stock could double soon.
Wigton is the largest IPO the list on the JSE since the listing of NCB, Telecommunication of Jamaica in the latter part of 1980s. In recent times, it is ahead of Wisynco Group with 7,769 applicants. “We have made tremendous strides as Wigton with total applications of 31,200 and four times the size of that offer has taken 21 days from the close of the offer to listing today” Street Fporrest stated that,
Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, stated that he wanted not only for Jamaicans to own assets but to share in the profitability of the company and this was achieved with the Wigton issue. He noted also that shares the company own in Jamaica Public Service and Jamaica Mortgage Bank will be divested in the short to medium term.
The stock closed with the price rising by a maximum of 30 percent at 65 cents trading 8,351,000 but ended with the bid at 66 cents which will allow it to trade as high as 85 cents on Friday.
JSE post record high but…
Wigton Windfarm traded at 65 cents, Scotia group climbed to $51 and Wisynco Group traded at a new high of $15.99 to push the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index up 6,219.13 points to a record 457,965.13 after 47 minutes of trading.
At the same time, the JSE Index jumped 5,651.57 points to a new record of 417,158.72. The main market indices may be overstated with Wigton shares exceeding the maximum of 65 cents permitted for the day.
The moves beat the intraday high reached on Friday when the JSE All Jamaican Composite Index rose 1,367.16 points to 456,944.87 after 51 minutes of trading and the JSE Index rose 1,242.38 points to a then new record of 416,231.54.
The market index has since pulled back the record high with JSE All Jamaican Composite Index now 2,587.10 points to 454,333.08 after 72 minutes of trading and the JSE Index is up 2,138.24.57 points to a new record of 413,754.53. Meanwhile the Junior Market index trades 23.87 points up at 3,122.36.
Wigton opens at 65 cents
Wigton stock could double soon.
Within minutes of opening more than 8 million shares were on the bid between 35 cents (just 1 bid) and 76 cents with sellers offering more than 12 million units to sell between 60 cents and $5
After a few minutes of trading just under 7 million shares traded at 65 cents. The shares will be restricted to a maximum price rise of 15 cents today or 30 percent of the IPO price, which is the maximum the stock exchange circuit breaker rule permits.
If the bid closes at 84 cents at the close of trading then it can trade as high as $1.09 on Friday when the market reopens after the Labour day holiday.The stock should be very liquid and that may constrain the price movement as speculators take profit early. The PE ratio of the stock is 8.5 times earnings but with many main market stocks priced in the 15 times region Wigton could get to that valuation and sell just under $1.
Mayberry Investments the main broker for the issue stated that the public sector pool was oversubscribed accordingly and all Public Sector workers who applied for less than 15 million shares were fully allocated while investors from the general public, were fully allocated up to 8.5 million shares.
Wigton shares list today
Wigton stock could double soon.
The shares that saw more than 31,000 investors the 11 million units that were on offer was heavily oversubscribed and persons within the financial market expects that it will trade at a premium to the 50 cents offer price. The shares will be restricted to a maximum price rise of 15 cents today or 30 percent of the IPO price, which is the maximum the stock exchange circuit breaker rule permits. If the bid closes at 84 cents at the close of trading then it can trade as high as $1.09 on Friday when the market reopens after the Labour day holiday.
The stock should be very liquid and that may constrain the price movements as speculators take profit early. The PE ratio of the stock is 8.5 times earnings but with many main market stocks priced in the 15 times region Wigton could get to that valuation and sell just under $1.
Mayberry Investments the main broker for the issue stated that the public sector pool was oversubscribed accordingly and all Public Sector workers who applied for less than 15 million shares were fully allocated while investors from the general public, were fully allocated up to 8.5 million shares.
Wigton IC TOP 10 stock sets to double
Wigton stock could double soon.
Wigton Windfarm is the third highest ranked IC Insider.com TOP 10 main market stock for this coming week, with the potential to double in price before too long, after listing.
The stock lists on Wednesday on main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange. The IPO was priced at 50 cents per share, with a PE of 8.3 times, normalized earnings for the year to March 2019. With the heavy oversubscription, the top investors will get just a fraction of what they applied for and will push the price higher to get a reasonable volume.
IC Insider.com’s TOP 10 for the coming week has five new listings as some company results encouraged increased buying and reduced selling in a number of cases in the past week.
The Junior Market list has two new listings, Jetcon Corporation and tTech that rejoin the group with falling prices while Elite Diagnostic jumped to $4 and ISP Finance climbed to $16, both on the back of good March quarter results and gave way to the two new listings.
JMMB Group surged in price and move out the TOP 10, following an announcement that the group will invest a minimum of US$200 million in Alignvest Acquisition ll Corporation, a Toronto Stock Exchange traded Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation. Also moving on are Sygnus Credit Investments with a rising price and Grace Kennedy that was edged out by Sagicor Group. Caribbean Cement fell in price to $69 and Scotia Group squeezed into the top list.
The three leading Junior Market stocks for the coming week are, Caribbean Producers with projected gains of 233 percent, 
Lasco Financial with likely gains of 210 percent, followed by Iron Rock with potential gains of 208 percent. Of the three on Lasco Financial seems likely to break out after they release full year results later this month.
Radio Jamaica with potential gains of 180 percent leads main market stocks, followed by Sterling Investments with 151 percent likely gain and Wigton Windfarms in third spot with the potential to gain 140 percent within twelve months.
The main market, closed the week with the overall PE at 14.4 and the Junior Market at just 11.1, with the latter having moved up from 10.4 and the end of the prior week. The PE ratio for Junior Market Top 10 stocks averages 6.8 and the main market PE is now 8.6. These levels, point to the huge upside for TOP 10 stocks over the next 12 months and Junior Market stocks in particular.
The TOP 10 stocks now trade at an average discount of 39 percent to the average for the Junior Market Top stocks and main market stocks trade at a discount of 41 percent to the overall market.
TOP 10 stocks are likely to deliver the best returns within a 12 months period. Projected earnings, for each company’s current fiscal year, are used in determining, the selected stocks. The PE for and projected earnings for each stock are computed to show potential gains for the year, which are ranked in descending order. Potential values will change as stock prices fluctuate and will result in movements of the selection in and out of the lists for most weeks. Earnings per share are revised on an ongoing basis as new information is received that can result in changes in and out of the list.
This report is compiled by persons who may have interest in the securities commented on.
Jamaican government screwing savers
The Government of Jamaica is screwing savers and making real estate and stock market investors rich, the exact opposite of what the PNP government did in the 1990s managed by Dr. Omar Davies.
Davies who managed the finance portfolio for the government led by his party, created a paradise for the moneyed class, by having a prolonged period of excessive high interest rates that slaughtered the private sector and killed off many viable financial institutions. Jamaicans to this day continue to suffer for the ill-advised and protracted policy.
The JLP led government has moved in the direct opposite direction, by severely hurting savers. People with money are getting paltry returns by putting funds in banks and not much more if they get into riskier bonds, while savvy investors who understand the stock market are making a killing investing their money in stocks. Added to that, many of the savers are pensioners and must pay tax on the interest earned, thus further reducing the return on investment. At the same time, government sells shares in Wigton Windfarm to a select group of more than 31,000 Jamaicans who are likely to benefit in two ways from the current policy.
Stock market investors making a killing while savers get caned.
The current valuation of local stocks will result in the stock price jumping and handing many a handy profit. The latest move by the central bank in chopping the overnight rate to 0.75 percent is going to increase the valuation of stocks above present levels as investors find the dividend yield of many stocks more attractive than money market instruments.
While the central bank lowers the rate to stimulate the economy, the government has artificially helped in keeping bank lending rates much higher than needed by taxing bank customers with high bank taxes that results in interest rates being around 3 percent points higher than they should. This is where the focus needs to be and not on lowering on savings rate to stimulate the economy. The time for removing the distortion in taxes on banks is long gone. The situation is that banks do not pay the high levels of taxes consumers do, as banks pass on the cost to the end user. Lowering the high bank taxes will do far more to cut lending rates and stimulate the economy than the foolish cutting of the savings rate.
Wigton shares now fully allocated
Wigton IPO prospectus is out.
Mayberry Investments (MIL) the main broker for the issue announced the allocation of shares. In a release on the allocation, MIL stated that the public sector pool was oversubscribed accordingly, all Public Sector workers who applied for less than 15 million shares were fully allocated. The remaining Reserved shares are allocated sequentially, in tranches of 10,000 units until the Reserved Pool was exhausted. Members of the general public who applied for less than 8.5 million shares, received full allocation, the remaining shares were allocated sequentially in tranches of 10,000 units.
Refunds to applicants who are clients of Mayberry, will be credited to their accounts, by end of today, 15 May, refunds for non-Mayberry clients will be made available to the selling agent or location where the application was first received by 16 May.
All Applicants will receive a formal letter from the Jamaica Central Securities Deposit advising them of their respective allotment of Shares in the Company in due course.
Wigton Windfarm lists next Wednesday
Wigton IPO prospectus is out.
The JSE in a response to IC Insider.com question today said that they are planning for the listing for next week. Other information has confirmed that the listing ceremony will start at 8:30 on Wednesday.
The government of Jamaica that previously owned all the company through Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica upheld the decision to sell all of the shares. Investors gobbled up all the 11 billion shares at 50 cents each and still wanted more as some 32,000 applications went after the issue making it one of the initial public offers to attract more than 30,000 applicants.
Information gleaned is that the allocation of shares will leave many of the bids with large amount of shares will not see much more than 4 million units being allocated to them.
More changes in IC TOP 10
Eight consecutive days of record close, for the Jamaica Stock Exchange ended last week, but that did not prevent new additions to the main market IC Insider.com’s TOP 10.
At the same time, the Junior Market recorded strong gains in the week and reduced the year to date loss of nearly 10 percent to April down to just 5.3 percent. While a number of companies released profit results last week many more are due this past and the market could get a jolt from some of them.
At the end of the past week, Jamaica Broilers and Stanley Motta moved out of the main market TOP 10 while Lasco Manufacturing and tTech moved up in price and left the Junior Market TOP 10.
Consolidated Bakeries and Main Event are the new additions to the Junior Market TOP 10 while IC Insider’s long standing TOP 10 main market stock, welcomed back, Sygnus Credit Investments that dropped out the previous week returns to the main market TOP 10 along with Grace Kennedy that reported below average first quarter results.
The three leading Junior Market stocks for the coming week are, Caribbean Producers with projected gains of 248 percent, Elite Diagnostic with likely gains of 233 percent, followed by AMG Packaging with potential gains of 216 percent.
Radio Jamaica with potential gains of 173 percent leads main market stocks, followed by Sterling Investments with 151 percent likely gain and Victoria Mutual Investments in third spot with potential to gain 148 percent.
Wigton Windfarm, Jamaica’s latest initial public share offer, sits in at the 4 position on the main market stock list. 
The stock comes to the market at 50 cents per share and boast a PE of 8.3 times normalized earnings for the year to March 2019. With the heavy oversubscription, the top investors will get just a fraction of what they applied for will certainly pushed the price higher when it lists and start trading.
The main market, closed the week with the overall PE at 14.4 and the Junior Market at just 10.4. The PE ratio for Junior Market Top 10 stocks averages 6.7 and the main market PE is now 8.5. These levels, point to the huge upside for the TOP 10 stocks over the next 12 months and Junior Market stocks in particular.
The TOP 10 stocks now trade at an average discount of 36 percent to the average for the Junior Market Top stocks and main market stocks trade at a discount of 41 percent to the overall market.
TOP 10 stocks are likely to deliver the best returns within a 12 months period. Projected earnings, for each company’s current fiscal year, are used in determining, the selected stocks. The PE for and projected earnings for each stock are computed to show potential gains for the year, which are ranked in descending order. Potential values will change as stock prices fluctuate and will result in movements of the selection in and out of the lists for most weeks. Earnings per share are revised on an ongoing basis as new information is received that can result in changes in and out of the list.
This report is compiled by persons who may have interest in the securities commented on.