Gemfields Group (LON:GEM) Sets New 1-Year Low – What’s Next?

Gemfields Group Limited (LON:GEM)’s stock price hit a new 52-week low during trading on Tuesday . The company traded as low as GBX 2.50 and last traded at GBX 3.20, with a volume of 31527 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at GBX 2.85.

Gemfields Group Stock Up 12.3%

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 31.57, a quick ratio of 2.46 and a current ratio of 1.77. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 3.23 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 4.18. The firm has a market cap of £55.18 million, a PE ratio of -1.23 and a beta of 0.20.

Gemfields Group Company Profile

Gemfields is a world-leading miner and marketer of coloured gemstones. Gemfields is the operator and 75% owner of both the Kagem emerald mine in Zambia (believed to be the world’s single largest producing emerald mine) and the Montepuez ruby mine in Mozambique (one of the most significant recently discovered ruby deposits in the world). In addition, Gemfields also holds controlling interests in various other gemstone mining and prospecting licences in Zambia, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Madagascar.

Gemfields has developed a proprietary grading system and a pioneering auction platform to provide a consistent supply of coloured gemstones to downstream markets, a key component of Gemfields’ business model that has played an important role in the growth of the global coloured gemstone sector.