Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market climbed sharply on Friday, with an 877 percent jump in the volume of stocks changing hands with the value jumping 724 percent over Thursday, resulting in five securities trading, compared to just two on Thursday and ended with prices of four rising, one declining and no ending unchanged.
Overall, 1,282,434 shares were exchanged for US$220,084 compared with 131,288 units at US$26,722 on Thursday.
Trading averaged 256,487 units at US$44,017, up from 65,644 shares at US$13,361 on Thursday, with a month to date average of 263,810 shares at US$9,335 compared with 264,341 units at US$6,822 on the previous day. March ended with an average of 172,829 units for US$12,793.
The US Denominated Equities Index rallied 3.78 points to 243.09, with the market closing out the week higher than for the opening.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 10.2. 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 three 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 rose 0.4 of a cent to 6.4 US cents after an exchange of 3,600 shares, Margaritaville gained 1.47 cents to end at 11.47 US cents after 8 stock units were swapped, Proven Investments gained 0.12 of a cent in closing at 16.2 US cents after 1,273,352 stock units were traded, Sterling Investments popped 0.01 of a cent in ending at 2.01 US cents in exchanging 474 units and Transjamaican Highway fell 0.01 of a cent to end at 1.29 US cents, with 5,000 stock units changing hands.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.