First Rock dominates JSE USD trading

Trading surged sharply on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market ended on Thursday, with the volume of stocks changing hands jumping 19,268 percent with 22,230 percent greater value than on Wednesday, First Rock Real Estate and proven Investments commanded the bulk of the day’s trade accounting for 99.36 percent of the volume traded, with trading in 10 securities, up from six on Wednesday and closing with four rising, four declining and two ending unchanged.
Overall, 22,118,146 shares were traded, for US$1,680,361 compared with 114,200 units at US$7,525 on Wednesday.
Trading averaged 2,211,815 shares at US$168,036 compared to 19,033 shares at US$1,254 on Wednesday, with a month to date average of 426,563 shares at US$24,480 compared with 225,973 units at US$8,351 on the previous day. March ended with an average of 172,829 units for US$12,793.
The US Denominated Equities Index dipped 19.78 points to 217.61.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 9.5. The PE ratio is computed based on the last traded price of each stock divided by projected earnings forecasts done by ICInsider.com for companies with their financial year ending between November 2022 and August 2023.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows two stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and one with a lower offer.
At the close, First Rock Real Estate USD share gained 0.16 of a cent to end at 6.1 US cents after hefty trading of 19,350,000 shares, Margaritaville rallied 0.03 of a cent to 10.03 US cents as investors exchanged 595 units, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy dipped 2 cents in closing at 58 US cents with a transfer of 37 stock units. Productive Business Solutions lost 29.99 cents to close at US$1.60 with the swapping of 28 stocks, Proven Investments advanced 0.54 of one cent and ended at 17.59 US cents after an exchange of 2,626,400 stocks, Sterling Investments ended at 1.89 US cents, as 13,860 units changed hands. Sygnus Credit Investments ended at 9 US cents, after trading 75,643 stocks and Transjamaican Highway popped 0.01 of a cent in closing at 1.16 US cents while exchanging 42,500 shares.
In the preference segment, Productive Business 9.25% preference share declined 25 cents to close at US$12.75 in an exchange of 2,566 stocks and JMMB Group 6% shed 1 cent to end at US$1.07 in an exchange of 6,517 shares.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.