550 trades / $922 million spent on the stock market – Oct 18-21, 2011

For the period October 18, 2011 to October 21, 2011 (Monday Oct 17 being a National Holiday in Jamaica – Heroes Day) market volume (excluding blocks) amounted to 49,059,465 units valued at $922,106,938.38. There were no block transactions for the period.

The Following Companies Represents The Overall Market Volume Leaders: –

• Pegasus Hotels Of Jamaica Ltd. with 37,027,055 units, amounting to 75.47% of the market volume
• Jamaica Money Market Brokers Ltd 8.75% with 1,379,880 units, amounting to 2.81% of the market volume

Main Market

Regular market volume (excluding blocks) amounted to 45,191,637 units valued at $902,822,008.71. There were no block transactions for the period. The volume leader category was dominated by:

• Pegasus Hotels Of Jamaica Ltd. with 37,027,055 units, amounting to 81.93% of the market volume
• Jamaica Money Market Brokers Ltd 8.75% with 1,379,880 units, amounting to 3.05% of the market volume
• Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited with 1,363,872 units, amounting to 3.02% of the market volume

Junior Market

Junior market volume (excluding blocks) amounted to 3,867,828 units valued at $19,284,929.67. There were no block transactions for the period. The volume leader category was dominated by:

• General Accident Insurance Co. (Jamaica) Ltd with 1,753,157 units, amounting to 45.33% of the market volume
• Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited with 624,655 units, amounting to 16.15% of the market volume
• Lasco Manufacturing Limited with 559,802 units, amounting to 14.47% of the market volume

Advance / Decline

• Overall Market activity resulted from trading in 45 stocks of which 28 advanced, 7 declined and 10 traded firm.
• Regular Market activity resulted from trading in 33 stocks of which 21 advanced,  6 declined and 6 traded firm.
• Junior Market activity resulted from trading in 12 stocks of which 7 advanced, 1 declined and 4 traded firm.

Market Capitalization

• Overall Market capitalisation increased by $16,224.95 million to close at $638.69 billion
• Junior Market capitalisation increased by $457.75 million to close at $21,495.23 million
• Regular Market capitalisation increased by $15,767.20 million to close at $617.19 billion

There were 192 transactions on the Junior market, 358 on the regular market, and 0 Block transaction(s) making it a total of 550 transactions in total this week.