Trading surged on the JSE USD Market

Trading surged on the Jamaica Stock Exchange US dollar market on Monday, with a 708 percent jump in the volume of stocks changing hands rising, valued just slightly more than on Friday, and resulting in the trading of three securities, compared to four on Friday with none rising, two declining and one ending unchanged.
Investors traded a total of 884,498 shares with a value of US$16,456 compared to 109,502 units at US$16,272 on Friday.
Trading averaged 294,833 shares at US$5,485 compared with 27,376 units at US$4,068 on Friday, with a month to date average of 57,529 shares at US$3,798 compared with 51,787 units at US$3,757 on the previous trading day. July ended with an average of 95,306 units for US$2,965.
The US Denominated Equities Index fell 4.11 points to end at 234.08.
The PE Ratio, a measure used in computing appropriate stock values, averages 8.7. The PE ratio is computed based on the last traded price divided by projected earnings done by ICInsider.com for companies with their financial year ending between November 2023 and August 2024.
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator shows two stocks ended with bids higher than their last selling prices and two with lower offers.
At the close, Proven Investments lost 0.15 of a cent and ended at 14.65 US cents with shareholders exchanging 2,000 shares and Transjamaican Highway dipped 0.01 of a cent in closing at 1.69 US cents after an exchange of 880,507 units.
In the preference segment, JMMB Group 6% remained at US$1 after 1,991 stocks passed through the market.
Prices of securities trading are those for the last transaction of each stock unless otherwise stated.