Gemfields Group (LON:GEM) Hits New 12-Month Low – Should You Sell?

Gemfields Group Limited (LON:GEM) shares reached a new 52-week low during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as low as GBX 3 and last traded at GBX 3.70, with a volume of 62056 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX 3.60.

Gemfields Group Trading Up 2.8%

The company has a quick ratio of 2.46, a current ratio of 1.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 31.57. The stock has a market capitalization of £63.80 million, a P/E ratio of -1.42 and a beta of 0.06. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 4.22 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 4.91.

About Gemfields Group

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.