Trading ended on Thursday, with the volume of shares swapped declining 24 percent with 86 percent lower value than on Wednesday, as the number of securities trading, climbed at the close of the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market, resulting in an even number of stocks rising and falling.
Trading ended with five securities changing hands, compared to two on Wednesday with prices of two rising, two declining and one ending unchanged.
The JSE US Denominated Equities Index lost 1.17 points to end at 213.21. The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 12.5. The PE ratios are computed based on earnings forecasts done by ICInsider.com for each company with the financial year ending during the current year up to August 2022.
Overall, 133,466 shares traded, for US$5,656 compared to 174,820 units at US$39,324 on Wednesday.
Trading averaged 26,693 units at US$1,131 versus 87,410 shares at US$19,662 on Wednesday and month to date averaging 545,465 shares at US$73,763 versus 594,405 units at US$80,616 on Wednesday. November ended with an average of 79,766 units for US$10,928.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows two stocks ending with bids higher than their last selling prices and none with a lower offer.
At the close, Margaritaville lost half a cent in closing at 9.5 US cents with the swapping of 20,000 shares, Proven Investments increased half of one cent to 23 US cents after trading 9,928 stocks, Sterling Investments gained 0.1 of a cent to 2.1 US cents in exchanging 4,889 units. Sygnus Credit Investments USD share remained at 12.9 US cents with 4,792 stock units changing hands and Transjamaican Highway dropped 0.06 of a cent in ending at 0.8 of one US cents in trading 93,857 stock units.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.
Slippage for JSE USD market
December 16, 2021 by