Alien Metals (LON:UFO) Shares Up 13.6% – Here’s Why

Alien Metals Limited (LON:UFO) shot up 13.6% during trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as GBX 0.16 and last traded at GBX 0.16. 170,207,063 shares were traded during trading, an increase of 92% from the average session volume of 88,809,508 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 0.14.

Alien Metals Price Performance

The firm has a market capitalization of £18.36 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -6.77 and a beta of 1.01. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 0.12 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 0.15. The company has a current ratio of 0.63, a quick ratio of 4.22 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.77.

About Alien Metals

Alien Metals Limited is a mining exploration and development company listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: UFO). The Company’s focus is on delivering a profitable direct shipping iron ore operation from it 90% Hancock iron ore project in the central Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Hancock tenements currently contain a JORC-compliant resource of 8.4Mt iron ore @ 60% Fe and offers significant exploration upside which is targeted to deliver a mining operation of 2Mtpa for 10 years.

These Hancock Project tenements have direct access to the Great Northern Highway, which provides an essential export route to export facilities at Port Hedland, from where more than 500Mt of iron ore is exported annually (30% of global production).