Stocks Round Up | Margaritaville (Turks), Purity and KLE today's top performers
Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2023 | 2:53 PM
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index reversed some of the recent gains on Tuesday.
The bustling trading ended with an advance/decline ratio of 50/50.
The JSE Combined Index declined by 139.10 points or 0.04 per cent to close at 342,936.69.
The JSE Main Market Index declined by 195.10 points or 0.06 per cent to close at 331,197.91, while the Junior Market Index advanced by 4.58 points or 0.12 per cent to close at 3,703.49.
The JSE USD Equities advanced by 0.04 points or 0.02 per cent to close at 219.95.
Overall market activity
125 stocks traded
50 advanced
50 declined
25 traded firm
Winners
Margaritaville (Turks) up 11.54 per cent to close at $18.36
Purity up 11.44 per cent to close at $2.24
KLE Group up 10.06 per cent to close at $1.86
Express Catering up 9.75 per cent to close at $5.18
Indies Pharma up 9.62 per cent to close at $3.19
Losers
Jamaica Public Service Co 7% down 14.95 per cent to close at $61.57
Eppley Ltd 5% Preference Shares down 13.18 per cent closing at $ 19.10
Eppley Ltd down 11.84 per cent to close at $33.05
ISP Finance down 11.77 per cent to close at $19.41
The LAB down 11.24per cent closing at $2.21
Market volume
Some 12.88 million units valued at over $58.40 million were traded today.
Volume leaders were: Image Plus, followed by Wigton and the LAB.
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