Buoyant JSE USD Market trading

Trading remains buoyant on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market for a second day running on Tuesday, with the volume of stocks changing hands rising 63 percent valued 101 percent more than on Monday, and resulted from trading in seven securities, compared to four on Monday with three rising, one declining and three ending unchanged.
A total of 830,053 shares were traded, for US$28,943 up from 509,457 units at US$14,389 on Monday.
Trading on Tuesday averaged 118,579 shares for US$4,135 versus 127,364 shares at US$3,597 on Monday, with a month to date average of 78,103 shares at US$5,044 compared to 74,955 units at US$5,114 on the previous day and above October that ended with an average of 47,977 units for US$4,392.
The US Denominated Equities Index advanced 0.38 points to 227.85.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 8.7. The PE ratio is computed based on the last traded price divided by projected earnings done by ICInsider.com for companies with their financial year ending and or around August 2024.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows three stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and one with a lower offer.
At the close, Margaritaville climbed 1.26 cents and ended at 12.3 US cents, with 2,500 stocks crossing the market, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy ended at 57 US cents with investors trading a mere one unit, Productive Business Solutions remained at US$1.55 with investors swapping 5 shares. Proven Investments fell 0.01 of a cent in closing at 15 US cents in an exchange of 109,252 stock units, Sterling Investments remained at 1.7 US cents passed through the market 4,075 shares, Sygnus Credit Investments popped 0.01 cent to 8.71 US cents while exchanging 4,135 units and Transjamaican Highway increased by 0.14 of a cent in closing at 1.73 US cents in switching ownership of 710,085 stocks.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.