Weekend rally for JSE Main Market

Trading activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange Main Market ended on Friday, with the volume of stocks traded declining 43 percent and the value 6 percent lower than on Thursday, with 53 securities trading compared with 52 on Thursday, with 16 rising, 18 declining and 19 ending unchanged.
A total of 14,036,554 shares were traded for $205,125,008 compared to 24,710,357 units at $217,998,595 on Thursday.
Trading averaged 264,841 shares at $3,870,283 compared with 475,199 shares at $4,192,281 on Thursday, month to date, an average of 349,982 units at $4,966,815, compared with 354,979 units at $5,031,174 on the previous day, that is well above the average for May of 226,361 shares at $1,362,447.
Kingston Wharves led trading with 4.0 million shares for 28.5 percent of total volume followed by Wigton Windfarm with 3.39 million units for 24.2 percent of the day’s trade, Sygnus Credit Investments with 1.92 million units for 13.7 percent market share and Transjamaican Highway with 1.11 million units for 7.9 percent of total volume.
The All Jamaican Composite Index popped 45.77 points to 361,653.63, the JSE Main Index popped 2,594.54 points to settle at 327,952.63 and the JSE Financial Index dropped 0.37 points to finish at 72.93.
The PE Ratio, a formula used to compute appropriate stock values, averages 12.9 for the Main Market. The JSE Main and USD Market PE ratios are computed based on the last traded prices and earnings forecasts by ICInsider.com for companies with the financial year ending up to August 2024.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows eight stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and four with lower offers.
At the close, Barita Investments dipped 40 cents to $74 with 25,860 shares trading, Caribbean Cement popped $1.40 and ended at $50.90 in switching ownership of 625 units, First Rock Real Estate dropped 54 cents in closing at $9.31, with 119,049 stocks crossing the market, GraceKennedy gained 50 cents to close at $77, with 52,886 stock units changing hands, Jamaica Producers rose 80 cents to close at $20.50 with traders exchanging 890,023 units,
Kingston Wharves shed $1.15 and ended at $28.80 in an exchange of 4,001,198 shares, Massy Holdings climbed $7 to $102 in trading 1,432 stocks, NCB Financial lost 51 cents to close at $67.50 after an exchange of 148,016 stock units, Pan Jamaica fell $2.50 in closing at $48 with a transfer of 5,586 stock units, Scotia Group declined 35 cents to end at $32.65, with 47,726 shares crossing the market and Supreme Ventures advanced $1.30 in closing at $26.50 after a transfer of 143,829 units.
In the preference segment, Eppley 7.75% preference share dropped $1 to end at $19 and closed with 150 stocks changing hands, Jamaica Public Service 7% declined $7.33 to $48.67 after stakeholders exchanged 109 units and JMMB Group 7.25% preference share increased 53 cents to close at $4.06 with an exchange of 1,000 shares.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.