Best Gold Stocks To Watch Today - February 1st

Key Points

• Freeport‑McMoRan, Newmont and Barrick Mining are the three gold stocks MarketBeat flags today, chosen for having the highest dollar trading volume among gold-related firms.
• Gold stocks offer investors leveraged exposure to gold-price movements but carry company-specific, operational and geopolitical risks that can make their performance diverge from physical bullion.
• Company highlights: Freeport‑McMoRan is a major copper and gold miner (notably Grasberg), Newmont is a large global gold producer with assets across the Americas, Africa and Australia, and Barrick is a sector-leading gold/copper producer that co-owns the Nevada Gold Mines JV.

Freeport-McMoRan, Newmont, and Barrick Mining are the three Gold stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Gold stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in the gold industry—principally gold miners and explorers, as well as royalty, streaming, and services firms—whose revenues and profits depend on gold production and prices. For investors, they offer leveraged exposure to movements in the price of gold but also carry company-specific, operational and geopolitical risks that can make their performance diverge from physical bullion. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Gold stocks within the last several days.

Freeport-McMoRan (FCX)

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. engages in the mining of mineral properties in North America, South America, and Indonesia. It primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, and other metals. The company's assets include the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia; Morenci, Bagdad, Safford, Sierrita, and Miami in Arizona; Chino and Tyrone in New Mexico; and Henderson and Climax in Colorado, North America, as well as Cerro Verde in Peru and El Abra in Chile.

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Newmont (NEM)

Newmont Corporation engages in the production and exploration of gold. It also explores for copper, silver, zinc, and lead. The company has operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, Fiji, and Ghana.

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Barrick Mining (B)

Barrick Gold Corporation is a sector-leading gold and copper producer.  Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GOLD and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ABX.   In January 2019 Barrick merged with Randgold Resources and in July that year it combined its gold mines in Nevada, USA, with those of Newmont Corporation in a joint venture, Nevada Gold Mines, which is majority-owned and operated by Barrick.

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