SigmaRoc (LON:SRC) Hits New 1-Year High - Here's What Happened

SigmaRoc plc (LON:SRC - Get Free Report) shares hit a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as GBX 109.80 ($1.49) and last traded at GBX 109.70 ($1.49), with a volume of 7246474 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at GBX 107.60 ($1.46).

SigmaRoc Price Performance

The stock has a market capitalization of £1.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -5.53 and a beta of 1.72. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 94.75 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 84.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 92.26, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a current ratio of 1.08.

SigmaRoc (LON:SRC - Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, March 18th. The company reported GBX 8.21 ($0.11) EPS for the quarter. SigmaRoc had a negative return on equity of 0.37% and a negative net margin of 0.29%. Equities research analysts forecast that SigmaRoc plc will post 9.1989319 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

In other news, insider Tim Hall purchased 80,884 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, May 15th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 103 ($1.40) per share, with a total value of £83,310.52 ($113,132.16). 21.82% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

SigmaRoc Company Profile

SigmaRoc is an AIM-quoted lime and limestone group targeting quarried materials assets in the UK and Northern Europe. It seeks to create value by purchasing assets in fragmented materials markets and extracting efficiencies through active management and by forming the assets into larger groups. It seeks to de-risk its investments through the selection of projects with strong asset-backing.