Kintyre Holdings captured 4 million of the 10.5 million shares traded on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, with a marginal slippage in volume on Tuesday, with an 18 percent lower value. At the close, investors swapped 47 securities compared with 46 on Monday, with prices of 14 rising, 24 declining and nine closing unchanged.
Trading ended with an exchange of 10,487,172 shares for $15,410,498 after sliding from 11,434,106 units at $18,735,373 on Monday.
Trading averaged 223,131 shares at $327,883, down from 248,568 stock units at $407,291 on Monday, with the month to date, averaging 396,553 shares worth $423,227 compared to 427,195 stock units at $440,074 on the previous day and February, which ended with an average of 301,118 stock units at $408,514.
Kintyre Holdings led trading with 3.99 million shares for 38.1 percent of total volume, followed by Fosrich, with 2.27 million stocks for 21.7 percent of the day’s trade and Atlantic Hardware with 1.42 million stock units for 13.5 percent of traded volume.
At the close of trading, the Junior Market Index inched 0.93 points higher to 3,378.93, after trading as higher as 3,421.06 points in the early morning trading. The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows six stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and four with lower offers.
The Junior Market ended trading with an average PE Ratio of 14.6, derived by dividing the last traded price of a stock by the earnings per share. ICInsider.com compiles the PE ratios in this report for companies with their fiscal year ending around August 2026.
At the close of the market, Dolla Financial dipped by 18 cents to close at $2.51 in swapping 433,469 shares, Dolphin Cove popped 42 cents to end at $10.96 with 3,098 units crossing the market, Fontana dipped 6 cents to close at $7.30 with an exchange of 24,900 stocks. Fosrich sank 19 cents in closing at $2 after dealers swapped 2,273,242 shares, Future Energy increased 19 cents to end at $3.81 with 783,779 stock units crossing the exchange, GWest Corporation fell 7 cents and ended at 68 cents with investors trading 2,809 shares. 
Image Plus shed 6 cents to close at 81 cents after an exchange of 100,957 units, Indies Pharma sank 16 cents to$2.81 with a transfer of 10,824 stocks, Iron Rock Insurance climbed 28 cents and ended at $2.78 with 120 stock units clearing the market. Lasco Financial slipped 8 cents to end at $1.57 with investors trading 5,737 shares, Main Event skidded $1.39 in closing at $5.61 in an exchange of 7,829 stock units and Medical Disposables dropped 16 cents to finish at $1.15 with investors swapping 2,789 units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.