Gold Stocks Are Dropping Hard, So I Ranked Canada’s Top 6

Gold Stocks Are Dropping Hard, So I Ranked Canada’s Top 6

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Canadian gold stocks just got hit hard. Gold ran from under US$3,000 an ounce to above US$5,000 in about a year, and has now broken back below US$4,000 as markets price in higher interest rates.

So which gold stocks are actually worth owning, and is it better to buy a gold miner or a gold royalty and streaming company?

I ranked Canada’s six biggest gold stocks from S to E, one per tier: Agnico Eagle, Barrick Mining, Franco-Nevada, Kinross Gold, Lundin Gold and Wheaton Precious Metals.

Four are gold mining stocks and two are streaming and royalty companies, and they carry very different risks.

For every company I go through what happens to its margins if gold falls to US$2,500, its all-in sustaining costs (AISC), where its mines are, the balance sheet, buybacks, its dividend record through the last gold bear market, and the bull and bear case.

Along the way: Wheaton’s US$4.3 billion silver bet, Barrick’s plan to IPO its North American mines, the Ecuador mine Kinross sold for US$240 million that is now Lundin Gold, Agnico Eagle’s flip from net debt to US$3.4 billion of net cash, and the US$2 million royalty that still pays Franco-Nevada millions a year.

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00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:57 – Wheaton Precious Metals
00:09:20 – Barrick
00:16:10 – Kinross Gold
00:22:05 – Lundin Gold
00:27:23 – Agnico Eagle
00:34:46 – Franco-Nevada
00:41:11 – Final Rankings