Gold Stocks To Consider - April 25th

Key Points

• MarketBeat names five gold stocks to watch: Newmont (NEM), Freeport‑McMoRan (FCX), Barrick Mining (B), Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM), and Royal Gold (RGLD) — these had the highest dollar trading volume among gold stocks in recent days.
• Gold stocks mirror gold but carry extra risks: their prices often track the market value of gold but also reflect company‑specific factors like production costs, reserves, management and geopolitical risk, making them typically more volatile than holding physical gold.
• Diverse business models among the five: Newmont and Freeport are large global producers with broad asset footprints, Barrick is a sector leader with major joint ventures (including Nevada Gold Mines), while Royal Gold specializes in royalty and streaming interests rather than direct mining.

Newmont, Freeport-McMoRan, Barrick Mining, Agnico Eagle Mines, and Royal Gold are the five Gold stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Gold stocks are equity shares in companies whose business is tied to the production, exploration, development, or financing of gold—primarily gold mining firms as well as related royalty, streaming, and processing companies. Their prices often track the market value of gold but also reflect company-specific factors (production costs, reserves, management and geopolitical risks), so they can be more volatile than holding physical 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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Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM)

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, a gold mining company, exploration, development, and production of precious metals. It explores for gold. The company's mines are located in Canada, Australia, Finland and Mexico, with exploration and development activities in Canada, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

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Royal Gold (RGLD)

Royal Gold, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, acquires and manages precious metal streams, royalties, and related interests. The company engages in acquiring stream and royalty interests or to finance projects that are in production, development, or in the exploration stage in exchange for stream or royalty interests, which primarily consists of gold, silver, copper, nickel, zinc, lead, and other metals.

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