Rising stocks dominate JSE USD market Friday

Stock prices mostly rose at the close of trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market on Friday, with a 96 percent decline in the volume of stocks changing hands at a 95 percent lower value than Thursday, resulting in the trading of nine securities, compared to seven on Thursday with five rising, two declining and two ending unchanged.
Overall, 64,058 shares were traded for US$1,876, down sharply from 1,504,788 units at US$39,276 on Thursday.
Trading averaged 7,118 shares at US$208, down from 214,970 shares at US$5,611 on Thursday, with a month to date average of 47,938 shares at US$2,287 compared with 52,365 units at US$2,512 on the previous day. January ended with an average of 48,604 units for US$4,865.
The JSE USD Equities Index lost 1.05 points to end at 252.75.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 10.1. The PE ratio uses ICInsider.com earnings forecasts for companies with financial years ending between November 2022 and August 2023.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows two stocks ended with bids higher than the last selling prices and four with lower offers.
At the close, First Rock Real Estate USD share gained 1 cent to end at 7 US cents after an exchange of 1,000 shares, Proven Investments shed 0.87 of one cent to 19 US cents trading 150 stocks, Sygnus Credit Investments USD share declined 0.5 of a cent to 9.5 US cents, with 11,000 stock units changing hands. Sygnus Real Estate Finance USD share ended at 8.5 US cents in an exchange of 3 units and Transjamaican Highway advanced 0.09 of a cent in ending at 0.96 of one US cent with an exchange of 51,874 shares.
In the preference segment, Productive Business 9.25% preference share rose 1 cent ending at US$11.01 with 20 units clearing the market. Equityline Mortgage Investment preference share ended at US$1.64 after exchanging three stocks, JMMB Group 5.75% climbed 1 cent to close at US$2.01 in exchanging one stock unit and JMMB Group 6% rallied 6.97 cents to US$1.0697 after a transfer of 7 units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.