Trading ended Wednesday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange with the volume of stocks exchanged rising, and the value much higher than on Tuesday, resulting in the Main Market and the Junior Market indices declining and the JSE USD Market inching higher. At the end of trading, the prices of 33 shares rose, 43 declined and 25 remained firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index declined 3,618.38 points to 323,544.18, the All Jamaican Composite Index lost 4,796.33 points to settle at 360,689.26, the JSE Main Index declined 3,618.15 points to 312,832.90, the Junior Market Index lost 22.42 points to conclude trading at 3,407.50 and the JSE USD Market Index rallied 0.94 points to 212.62.
At the close, 21,879,875 shares were exchanged in all three markets, up from 13,162,104 units on Tuesday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $298.37 million, up from $72.26 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 1,313,076 shares for US$84,040, well above the 452,504 units at US$44,656 on Tuesday.
In Main Market activity, Kingston Wharves led trading with 9.96 million shares, followed by Transjamaican Highway with 1.33 million stocks and Wigton Energy with 1.10 million units.
In Junior Market trading, Jamaican Teas led with 2.91 million shares, followed by Mailpac Group with 1.07 million stocks and Fosrich with 405,943 units.
The market’s PE ratio, the most popular measure used to value stocks, ended at 13.8 based on 2024-25 earnings and 16 based on 2024 historical earnings.
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