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The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM on Friday. ---------- AIM - WINNERS ---------- Pri0r1ty Intelligence Group PLC, up 15% at 2.82 pence, 12-month range 2.10p-11.66p. The AI-focused data and marketing services company launches Fan Sonar, an AI-powered social listening product designed to help businesses monitor brand impact and consumer engagement across major social media platforms. The tool analyses over 100 million online sources, integrating with customer feeds to provide contextualised insights, Pri0r1ty says. It can identify sentiment, emotion, buying intent, topic clusters and key influencers in near real time. Unlike traditional monitoring software, Fan Sonar also allows queries using AI with Capitano, its cross-channel brand awareness product, and supports historical analysis of up to 10 years of social data, the company explains. Pri0r1ty says the launch positions it to tap into the $7.6 billion social listening industry, offering a lower-cost software-as-a-service product aimed particularly at small and medium-sized enterprises. ---------- AIM - LOSERS ---------- Smarttech247 Group PLC, down 62% at 3.20p, 12-month range 2.00p-12.70p. The cybersecurity services company proposes the cancellation of its shares from trading on London’s AIM, though it maintains that its pipeline had ‘never been stronger’. The group expects full-year revenue in the year that ended July 31 to be ahead of market consensus. Revenue was €13.2 million in financial 2024. However, both operating profit and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation are forecast below market expectations. The company attributes this to softer-than-expected margins in financial 2025. ‘If the profit from the sale of the company’s stake in Getvisibility were included, overall Ebitda would be more in line with market guidance,’ Smarttech247 adds. It reports a €1.8 million cash inflow from the sale of organisational data platform Getvisibility, also known as Visibility Blockchain Ltd, to Austin, Texas-based software firm Forcepoint LLC, which completed in April. Smarttech247 maintains that it is ‘significantly undervalued on public markets’ and that a trading exit would benefit the company ‘as it looks to grow in what remains a competitive sector’. ‘To support shareholder liquidity, the company intends to establish a matched bargain facility to enable ongoing trading of shares on a matched basis following the delisting,’ Smarttech247 notes. Delisting would require shareholder approval, and the firm expects to update further on the matter ‘in due course’. Meanwhile, Smarttech247 says that positive momentum has continued with contract wins in the new financial year. These include a four-year deal with a ‘a major UK transportation services company’ worth £715,000, according to Smarttech247, and deals for dark web monitoring services with another public transport company and a UK airport, worth a combined €80,000. The firm also has a letter of intent for a three-year contract ‘with a leading European bank’ and a €180,000 aviation contract for an initial six months, with the possibility of a three-year extension. It expects to realise the contracts progressively in recurring revenue for financial 2026 and 2027. ---------- Gemfields Group Ltd, down 17% at 5.07p, 12-month range 3.85p-12.20p. The London-based miner and marketer of coloured gemstones suffers a pretax loss of $23.7 million for the six months to June 30, swinging from a profit of $25.1 million a year earlier. Revenue for the first half of 2025 is $64.2 million, down 47% from $121.4 million due to the disruption to the auction schedule. Total auction revenue from two key assets, the Montepuez ruby mine in Mozambique andthe Kagem emerald mine in Zambia, plunge by half to $60.0 million from $120.6 million, primarily due to fewer carats offered. ‘However, pricing and demand provided some encouragement,’ Gemfields says, adding: ‘Whilst the results are disappointing, strong underlying demand for high-quality gemstones continues.’ Gemfields declares no interim dividend, having paid out 0.86 US cents a year before. Going forward, the company says it is focused on completing key growth projects. The commissioning of Montepuez ruby mine’s second ruby processing plant remains on track for completion in the second half 2025 and will significantly increase the mine’s processing capacity. ‘While market conditions remain uncertain, strong underlying demand for high-quality gemstones, improved pricing trends, and a stronger balance sheet support a cautiously optimistic outlook for the remainder of the year and into 2026,’ Gemfields says. ---------- Copyright 2025 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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