Trading surged on JSE USD Market

Trading on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market ended on Wednesday, with the volume of stocks changing hands surging 2,391 percent with the value jumping 677 percent more than on Tuesday, resulting from trading activity in nine securities as was the case on Tuesday as traded ended with prices of six stocks rising, no declining and three ending unchanged.
A total of 1,042,369 shares were exchanged for US$14,647 compared to 41,840 units at US$1,885 on Tuesday.
Trading averaged 115,819 shares at US$1,627 compared with 4,649 shares at US$209 on Tuesday, with a month to date average of 47,363 shares at US$742, with 13,136 units at US$300 on the previous day. April ended with an average of 394,241 shares for US$22,357.
The US Denominated Equities Index popped 0.01 points and concluded trading at 225.31.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 9.8. The PE ratio is computed using the last traded price of each stock divided by projected earnings computed by ICInsider.com for companies with their financial year ending between November 2022 and August 2023.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows two stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and none with a lower offer.
At the close, First Rock Real Estate USD share ended trading at 6.2 US cents after 11 shares changed hands, MPC Caribbean Clean Energy advanced 1 cent to 59 US cents, with 2 stocks crossing the exchange. Proven Investments climbed 0.56 of one cent in closing at 17 US cents after investors traded 1,646 stock units, Sterling Investments increased 0.29 of a cent and ended at 1.9 US cents with a transfer of 38,413 units. Sygnus Credit Investments rose 0.36 of one cent to end at 9.42 US cents and closed trading with 157 stock units changing hands and Transjamaican Highway gained 0.09 of a cent to end at 1.21 US cents after a transfer of 1,000,871 stocks.
In the preference segment, Productive Business 9.25% preference share popped 40 cents to end at US$13.15 after an exchange of 2 units, JMMB Group 5.75% remained at US$2 in switching ownership of 1,242 shares and JMMB Group 6% after ending at US$1.07 and closed with 25 units crossing the market.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.