Wisynco’s went to market on Friday

Wisynco Group accounted for nearly 90 percent of the volume of stock trading on Friday on the Jamaica Stock Exchange Main Market, with 188 million shares changing hands for $3.95 billion, driving the overall volume of stocks traded up by 3,967 percent and the value 15,567 percent more than Thursday’s trades, with trading in 54 securities compared with 56 on Thursday, resulting in an equal number of winning and losing stocks with prices at 21 each and ending with 12 unchanged.
The market closed with an exchange of 210,468,441 shares with a value of $4,731,124,716 compared with 5,174,773 units at $30,198,962 on Thursday.
Trading averaged 3,897,564 shares at $87,613,421 compared to 92,407 units at $539,267 on Thursday and month to date, with an average of 555,650 stock units at $11,052,761 compared with 209,935 shares at $3,132,693 on the previous day and August with an average of 290,511 units at $2,258,494.
Wisynco Group led trading with 188.20 million shares for 89.4 percent of total volume but the big trade had little impact on the stock price. Eppley Caribbean Property Fund was next with 16.32 million stocks for 7.8 percent of the day’s trade, Wigton Windfarm with 1.85 million units for 0.9 percent of market share and Radio Jamaica with 1.31 million shares for 0.6 percent of total volume.
The All Jamaican Composite Index dropped 1,523.62 points to end at 347,602.41, the JSE Main Index fell 2,784.38 points to close at 305,441.17 and the JSE Financial Index sank 0.94 points to wrap up trading at 63.43.
The Main Market ended trading with an average PE Ratio of 14.2. The JSE Main and USD Market PE ratios are based on last traded prices and earnings forecasts by ICInsider.com for companies with the financial year ending around August 2025.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows 11 stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and four with lower offers.
At the close, Caribbean Cement lost 98 cents in closing at $63.01 with investors trading 10,516 stocks, Eppley sank $1.47 to $36 with an exchange of 15 units, Eppley Caribbean Property Fund increased $6.40 to finish at a 52 weeks’ high of $46 with 16,316,237 shares crossing the market. GraceKennedy dropped 80 cents and ended at $73.10 with investors trading 12,598 stock units, Guardian Holdings shed $25 to end at $295 after a transfer of 162 shares, Jamaica Broilers climbed 54 cents to close at $34.99 with investors swapping 120,200 stock units. Jamaica Producers fell 60 cents to $20 after an exchange of 51,284 stocks, Jamaica Stock Exchange sank 73 cents to finish at $10 with a transfer of 96,391 units, Mayberry Jamaican Equities rose $1.27 and ended at $10.43 with 47,094 stock units clearing the market. NCB Financial gained 46 cents in closing at $51.71 in an exchange of 7,022 units, Proven Investments dipped 63 cents to close at $15.07 with investors dealing in 39,273 shares and Seprod slipped $3.07 to end at $81.01 in an exchange of 18,119 stock units.
In the preference segment, Sygnus Credit Investments C10.5% popped $3.11 in closing at $104.50 with traders dealing in just one share.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.