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Iamgold CorpIMG.TOCOMMENTAug 14, 2015Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 15, 2026. Market Open.
Consistent theme across his Top Picks will be companies that are going to rerate, due to new projects or a shift in business.
This one has benefited from strong gold prices, but real upside will come from the Cote gold mine around Sudbury. It will start to operate at full speed by end of 2025, meaning material growth in production. Budget doubled, but all sins are forgiven because so has the price of gold since the mine opened. They'll be able to de-leverage, resulting in significant FCF in 2026 and 2027 for either buybacks or distributions.
Key will be what happens after 2028, because their West Africa mine ends. No dividend.
The question was on Iamgold and Teck Resources. IMG has declared some good news from its Quebec mine and Teck has more copper production with gold as an add-on. However both operate in some places that are less politically agreeable. He likes the gold sector but prefers bigger and more diversified companies in more stable countries including the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Chile. Following along this theme he owns both Kinross and Agnico Eagle.
Whole sector's been a pretty good place to be. If you're looking for real strength as far as opportunity goes, move downstream from the big names to mid-tier names like IMG. Those are the ones that are behaving quite robustly.
Often it works to buy a basket, and then drill down and add one name for some extra alpha.
Period of seasonal strength for gold miners has just begun at the end of July. That runs all the way through to about the end of September. We are starting to see the gold mining industry wanting to bounce from here. This broke down in what is typically a weak month of June-July. Then it hit the period of seasonal strength and it popped. He would expect resistance at $2.60. Perhaps take profits there if you want to reduce your risks, but he has seasonal tendencies continuing all the way through to September.