Transjamaican Highway USD was the leading traded stock on the Jamaica Stock Exchange with 28.24 million shares on Monday, pushing the volume of stocks exchanged up by 48 percent, with a lower value than on Friday. The major indices of the Main Market, the Junior Market index and the JSE USD Market declined, with prices of 44 shares rising, 39 declining and 28 remaining firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index declined 1,525.71 points to 324,388.24, the All Jamaican Composite Index slipped 410.21 points to wrap up trading at 362,252.66, the JSE Main Index dipped 1,569.19 points to finish at 313,769.28, the Junior Market Index lost a mere 3.39 points to close at 3,398.91 and the JSE USD Market Index fell 1.92 points to settle at 194.21.
At the close of trading, 51,487,051 shares were exchanged in all three markets, up from 34,700,343 units on Friday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $116 million, down from $131.64 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 28,260,743 shares for US$652,562, following the big rise in trading Transjamaican shares, compared to 469,876 units at US$15,944 on Friday.
In Main Market activity, Transjamaican Highway led trading with 6.59 million shares in the Jamaican dollar section of the market, followed by Wigton Energy with 2.35 million stocks and Victoria Mutual Investments with 1.48 million units.
In Junior Market trading, Dolla Financial led with 2.0 million shares, followed by Fosrich with 1.55 million stocks and ONE on ONE Educational with 1.12 million units.
In the preference segment, 138 Student Living preference share rallied $35.63 to end at $280, Productive Business Solutions 10.5% rose $5 to $1,125 and Sygnus Credit Investments 10% advanced $1.95 to finish at $108.
The market’s PE ratio, the most popular measure used to value stocks, ended at 13.2 based on 2025-26 earnings and 16.3 based on 2024 historical earnings.
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