Gold Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - April 13th

Key Points

• MarketBeat’s stock-screener flags Newmont (NEM), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), and Barrick (B) as the three gold stocks to watch, based on the highest recent dollar trading volume.
• Gold stocks provide a leveraged, equity-based way to gain exposure to gold—while their prices often track the metal, company-specific factors like production costs, reserves, political risk, and operations can drive significant divergence.
• Barrick is a sector-leading gold and copper producer and co-operator of the Nevada Gold Mines JV with Newmont, while Freeport-McMoRan owns major copper and gold assets such as Grasberg and Cerro Verde, highlighting the varied asset bases behind these names.

Newmont, Freeport-McMoRan, 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 whose primary business involves finding, mining, processing or financing gold—this category includes mining firms, royalty and streaming companies, and occasionally firms that hold significant physical gold. Their prices tend to track movements in the gold price but are also shaped by company-specific factors like production costs, reserves, political risks and operational performance, so they offer a leveraged, equity-based way to gain exposure to gold. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Gold stocks within the last several days.

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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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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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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