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Stocks Round Up | Medical Disposables today's top winner, 138 Student Living leads decliners

Published:Tuesday | November 17, 2020 | 4:40 PM

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) combined index advanced on Tuesday with an advance/decline ratio of 42/21.

The JSE Combined Index advanced by 4515.84 points or 1.20 per cent to close at 380,454.55.

The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 4,655.78 points or 1.23 per cent to close at 383,551.04 while the Junior Market Index advanced by 21.49 points or 0.85 per cent to close at 2,561.47. The JSE USD Equities Index declined by 0.06 points or 0.03 per cent to close at 193.29.

Overall market activity

74 stocks traded
42 advanced
21 declined
11 traded firm

Winners

Medical Disposables up 15.02 per cent to close at $4.67
Margaritaville (Turks) up 14.99 per cent to close at $56.23
Mayberry Equities up 10.44 per cent to close at $7.72
Eppley Fund up 10.22 per cent to close at $43.80
Derrimon up 8.43 per cent to close at $2.70

Losers 

138 Student Living down 28.22 per cent to close at $1.80
Cargo Handlers down 16.58 per cent to close at $6.34
Dolphin Cove down 14.29 per cent to close at $6.00
Key Insurance down 11.15 per cent to close at $7.17
Icreate down 7.46 per cent to close at $0.62

Market volume

18.465 million units valued at over $202.097 million.

Volume leaders were Wigton Windfarm followed by Carreras Limited and TransJamaican Highway.

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