TIDMGEMD

RNS Number : 1746M

Gem Diamonds Limited

20 May 2022

20 May 2022

GEM DIAMONDS LIMITED

("Gem Diamonds" or "the Company")

SHARE BUYBACK

Transaction in Own Shares

Gem Diamonds Limited announces that on 19 May 2022 it purchased 32,265 of its ordinary shares from Liberum Capital Limited (acting as the Company's broker) on the London Stock Exchange at an average price of 60.13 pence per share, as part of the Company's buyback programme announced on 12 April 2022. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, the Company holds 1,124,535 ordinary shares as treasury shares. On 19 May 2022 the Company issued 17,594 ordinary shares under its block listing following the exercise of options under its employee share option plan. The total number of ordinary shares in issue (excluding shares held as treasury shares) is 139,623,442.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), detailed information about the individual purchases made by Liberum Capital Limited is set out below.

 
 Aggregated information: 
 
 Platform code                                      XLON 
                                                 ---------- 
 Date of purchase:                                19-May-22 
                                                 ---------- 
 Number of ordinary shares purchased:              32,265 
                                                 ---------- 
 Volume weighted average price paid per share:      60.13 
                                                 ---------- 
 
 

Transaction details:

 
 Transaction    Transaction             Price 
  Date           Time          Volume    (p)    Platform code 
 19/05/2022     15:48:01.019    8 225    60.0       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     15:10:31.127        1    60.0       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     14:39:12.071      520    60.0       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     12:44:07.087      447    60.0       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     10:54:51.937      931    59.6       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     10:53:04.303        6    59.6       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     10:50:11.842      472    59.6       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     10:06:46.008    4 877    60.0       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     10:06:46.003    6 739    59.8       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     10:06:41.045    5 091    60.4       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     09:27:54.194    4 952    60.8       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 19/05/2022     09:20:23.646        4    60.4       XLON 
               -------------  -------  ------  -------------- 
 

The Gem Diamonds Limited LEI number is 213800RC2PGGMZQG8L67.

For further information:

Gem Diamonds Limited

Susan Wallace, Company Secretarial department

Tel: +44 (0) 203 043 0280

ir@gemdiamonds.com

Celicourt Communications

Mark Antelme/Felicity Winkles

Tel: +44 (0) 208 434 2643

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