The Jamaica Stock exchange welcomed its 100 company listing on Thursday, with OneOnOne Educational listed on the Junior Market with the price rising 32 percent on its opening day to close at $1.32 the maximum permitted for the day but the stock closed with strong demand at the closing price and little selling under $2.
Ricardo Allen CEO of One to One
At the close of trading, the JSE Combined Index, a measure of the overall market, rose 1,153.03 points to 374,578.03. The All Jamaican Composite Index popped 561.84 points to 408,944.09, the JSE Main Index rallied 1,464.43 points to 360,759.12, the Junior Market Index slipped 23.69 points to 4,144.36 and the JSE USD Market Index rose 8.22 points to 213.78.
Trading ended with 50,351,650 shares changing hands with a value of $504.95 million, versus $1.1 billion, with 96,932,851 shares traded in the overall market on Wednesday. The JSE USD market ended with the value of stocks traded at US$24,695 and US$6,401 on the previous trading day.
The market’s PE ratio ended at 23.2 based on 2021-22 earnings and 12.4 times those for 2022-23 at the close of trading.
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