Yamana is a excellent takeout from one of the bigger boys right now. The price of gold SHOULD start rising soon. People look at 1200 dollar gold and they say [censored]! Gold used to be 400 a oz only a few years ago.
You have to dig deeper to get the correct answer. And before I get into it I would like to say I am not a goldbug, I do not forecast 10,000 dollar gold. I think 1800 is a more reasonable estimate.
Anyways lets DIG deeper
The cost of production has gone up expediently because gold mining is a energy, chemical, and labour intensive process. Most mining companies are hurting and slowing production because they are only breaking even at current prices. There are still loads of central banks buying gold most prominently the banks of india and china these are two ancient cultures that have always loved gold. Now that they are gaining power they will continue to buy. We will see a slow upward appraisal of gold this year and the mining sector is very relient on M&A (mergers and acquisitions) There has been a uptick in that and cash rich companies such as goldcorp need to keep purchasing more companies as they are producing millions of oz's a year. Unlike apple they can't "invent" more gold so they have to buy smaller companies such as AUY.
There has been a uptick in M&A in the whole sector and junior mining stocks are up 100's of percent in the last few months. This is a value sector as it has been a dog on the street for a couple of years.
Auy seems overvalued at 22x earnings but it trades at these multiples because everyone is looking for a buyout offer.
After the crash of 2008 companies like Teck and Auy went up 1000s of percentage points in a matter of months. They are almost at 2008 levels again. This is a buying opportunity of a lifetime.
Have a well diversified portfolio but really load up on hard assets gold, copper, oil, silver etc. These are always going to be the fundamentals of the economy. Other companies come and go but hard assets are forever. Apple may go under if they run out of innovation but someone will replace them and remember they will need metals and materials to make product! Pablo if you want me to run a more in-depth analysis on Yamana or any other holding you have feel free to PM me. I will go do in-depth research whenever I have sometime and tell you what I think.
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