Stocks Round Up | 138 Student Living Variable Preference Shares today's top advancer, SSL Venture Capital leads decliners
Published:Tuesday | May 18, 2021 | 5:19 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index closed Tuesday on a losing note, reversing previous gains.
The hectic trading session ended with an advance/decline ratio of 57/42.
The JSE Combined Index declined by 5,849.09 points or 1.31 per cent to close at 426,181.08.
The JSE Main Market Index was down 6,266.26 points or 1.46 per cent to close at 424,325.49 while the Junior Market Index advanced 13.62 points or 0.41 per cent to close at 3,320.12
The JSE USD Equities Index advanced 1.96 points or 0.93 per cent, closing at 212.81.
Overall market activity
106 stocks traded
57 advanced
42 declined
Seven traded firm.
Winners
138 Student Living Variable Preference Shares up 26.60 per cent to close at $7.90
138 Student Living up 19.73 per cent to close at $5.40
Knutsford Express up 14.58 per cent to close at $8.25
JMMB Group 7.50% up 11.84 per cent to close at $0.85
SOS up 11.40 per cent to close at $8.50
Losers
SSL Venture Capital down 12.31 per cent to close at $0.57
Guardian Holdings, down 12.21 per cent to close at $789.99
Lasco Financial Services, down 8.71 per cent closing at $3.46
First Rock Capital, down(USD) 5.00 per cent to close at US$0.10
Indies Pharma down 4.82 per cent closing at $3.75
Market volume
Some 21 million units valued at over $142.7 million were traded today.
Volume leaders were Sagicor Select Manufacturing & Distribution, followed by FESCO and Sagicor Select Financial.
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