All three Jamaica Stock Exchange markets fell in trading on Tuesday, following a rise in the volume and the value of stocks exchanged, compared to trading on Monday, resulting from trading of MFS Partners’ 20 million share, with the market closing with prices of 56 stocks declining, 27 shares rising and 30 remaining firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index dropped 4,128.67 points to end at 331,241.57, the All Jamaican Composite Index dived 4,253.80 points to finish at 370,384.31, the JSE Main Index sank 4,099.91 points to 320,380.12, the Junior Market Index shed 29.32 points to 3,474.84 and the JSE USD Market Index slipped 3.61 points to wrap up trading at 209.59.
At the close, 30,530,666 shares were traded in all three markets, up from 15,465,386 stock units on Monday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $66.64 million, up from $64.92 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 552,534 shares for US$66,374 compared to 1,260,621 units at US$30,005 on Monday.
In Main Market activity, Transjamaican Highway led with 2.79 million shares, followed by JMMB Group 7.35% – 2028 with 1.15 million stock units and Wigton Energy with 532,578 units.
In Junior Market trading, MFS Capital Partners led with 20.03 million shares, followed by Fosrich with 500,447 stocks and Everything Fresh with 438,095 units.
In the preference segment, Jamaica Public Service 7% climbed $2.96 to close at $44, 138 Student Living preference share popped $69.97 to $240 and Sygnus Credit Investments C10.5% gained $2 in closing at $101.
The market’s PE ratio, the most popular measure used to value stocks, ended at 13.9 based on 2024-25 earnings and at 16.3 based on 2024 earnings.
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