Dolla Financial ended with an exchange of 176 million shares in trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange on Monday, with a big rise in the volume of stocks exchanged, valued well above Thursday’s. Except for a small rise in the All Jamaican Composite Index, the Main Market and the Junior Market indices fell and the JSE USD Market rose. At the end of trading, the prices of just 26 shares rose, 60 declined and 31 remained firm.
At the close of the market, the JSE Combined Market Index lost 1,668.72 points to close trading at 328,776.63, the All Jamaican Composite Index rallied 19.55 points to 367,407.81, the JSE Main Index fell 1,636.91 points to 318,273.51, the Junior Market Index slipped 14.50 points to 3,412.58 and the JSE USD Market Index increased 1.94 points to 246.67.
At the close of trading, 189,765,396 shares were exchanged in all three markets, up from just 13,852,317 units on Thursday, with the value of stocks traded on the Junior and Main markets amounted to $395.91 million, up sharply from $84.03 million on the previous day and the JSE USD market closed with an exchange of 248,681 shares for US$11,647 compared to 197,380 units at US$50,568 on Thursday.
In Main Market activity, Transjamaican Highway led trading with 4.26 million shares, followed by Sagicor Select Financial Fund with 1.43 million stock units and Wigton Energy with 1.13 million units.
In Junior Market trading, Dolla Financial led with 175.80 million shares, followed by MFS Capital Partners with 1.10 million stock units and EduFocal with 871,243 units.
In the preference segment, Jamaica Public Service 9.5% sank $35.82 to end at $2,654.
The market’s PE ratio, the most popular measure used to value stocks, ended at 12.8 based on 2024-25 earnings and 16 based on 2024 earnings.
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