Jump in stocks traded on the JSE USD Market

Trading surged on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market ended on Friday, with the volume of stocks changing hands rising 1,675 percent but valued 70 percent less than on Thursday, resulting in trading of six securities, compared to nine on Thursday with two rising, one declining and three ending unchanged.
Investors exchanged 86,809 shares for US$1,115 compared with 4,892 units at US$3,727 on Thursday.
Trading averaged 14,468 units at US$186 versus 544 shares at US$414 on Thursday, with a month to date average of 9,103 shares at US$2,247 compared with 8,472 units at US$2,489 on the previous day. February ended with an average of 43,793 units for US$2,015.
The JSE USD Equities Index dropped 14.58 points to end at 209.79. The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 9.7. The PE ratio is computed based on the last traded price of each stock divided by projected earnings forecasted by ICInsider.com for companies with their financial year ending between November 2022 and August 2023.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows one stock ended with a bid higher than the last selling prices and one stock with a lower offer.
At the close, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy rallied 3.17 cents to 69.77 US cents in an exchange of 4 shares, Productive Business Solutions fell 28 cents to US$1.52, with ten units crossing the market, Proven Investments remained at 18.5 US cents in an exchange of 770 stock units. Sterling Investments ended at 2 US cents with the swapping of 3,723 stocks and Transjamaican Highway increased 0.04 cents in ending at 0.94 of one US cent while exchanging 82,202 stock units.
In the preference segment, JMMB Group 6% remained at US$1.07 with a transfer of 100 stocks.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.