743 trades / $202 million spent on the stock market – Oct 24-28, 2011

October 30, 2011

For the period October 24, 2011 to October 28, 2011 market volume (excluding blocks) amounted to 35,485,099 units valued at $202,511,903.43. There were no block transactions for the period.
The Following Companies Represents The Overall Market Volume Leaders: –

  • Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited with 5,171,761 units, amounting to 14.57% of the market volume
  • Cable & Wireless (Jamaica) Ltd. with 4,934,726 units, amounting to 13.91% of the market volume

Main Market

Regular market volume (excluding blocks) amounted to 25,280,091 units valued at $161,010,306.13. There were no block transactions for the period.

  • Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited with 5,171,761 units, amounting to 20.46% of the market volume
  • Cable & Wireless (Jamaica) Ltd. with 4,934,726 units, amounting to 19.52% of the market volume
  • Caribbean Cement Company Ltd. with 3,303,061 units, amounting to 13.07% of the market volume

Junior Market

Junior market volume (excluding blocks) amounted to 10,205,008 units valued at $41,501,597.30. There were no block transactions for the period. The volume leader category was dominated by:

  • Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited with 3,322,476 units, amounting to 32.56% of the market volume
  • General Accident Insurance Co. (Jamaica) Ltd with 2,719,682 units, amounting to 26.65% of the market volume
  • Lasco Financial Services Limited with 2,564,600 units, amounting to 25.13% of the market volume

Advance / Decline

  • Overall Market activity resulted from trading in 40 stocks of which 25 advanced, 9 declined and 6 traded firm.
  • Regular Market activity resulted from trading in 29 stocks of which 21 advanced, 5 declined and 3 traded firm.
  • Junior Market activity resulted from trading in 11 stocks of which 4 advanced, 4 declined and 3 traded firm.

Market Capitalization

  • Overall Market capitalisation increased by $2,150.98 million to close at $640.84 billion
  • Regular Market capitalisation increased by $726.27 million to close at $617.92 billion.
  • Junior Market capitalisation increased by $1,424.70 million to close at $22,919.93 million

There were 297 transactions on the Junior market, 446 on the regular market, and 0 Block transaction(s) making it a total of 743 transactions in total this week.

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