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Stocks Round Up | ICreate today's top advancer, Express Catering leads decliners

Published:Thursday | April 28, 2022 | 4:29 PM

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index advanced on Thursday with an advance/decline ratio of 59/38.

The JSE Combined Index moved up by 2,695.40 points or 0.65 per cent to close at 414,765.07 points.

The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 2,786.19 points or 0.70 per cent to close at 401,200.32 points while the Junior Market Index advanced by 9.79 points or 0.22 per cent to close at 4,409.35 points.

The JSE USD Equities Index advanced by 11.21 points or 5.24 per cent to close at 225.20 points.

Overall market activity

112 stocks traded
59 advanced
38 declined
15 traded firm

Winners

ICreate up 21.58 per cent to close at $2.93
Everything Fresh up 15.89 per cent to close at $1.75
PBS (US$ Ordinary Shares) up 15.53 per cent to close at $1.19
Eppley (6% preference shares) up 15.00 per cent to close at $1.10
Sygnus Real Estate (US$) up 14.33 per cent to close at $0.14

Losers

Express Catering down 14.95 per cent to close at $5.29
JPS 9.5% down 12.50 per cent to close at $2,650
Paramount Trading down 11.94 per cent to close at $1.77
Eppley Caribbean down 10.64 per cent to close at $42.00
Kingston Properties down 8.98 per cent to close at $7.60

Market volume

Some 56.614 million units valued at over $334.919 million were traded today.

Volume leaders were Express Catering followed by Derrimon Trading and FESCO.

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