Sandstorm Gold Ltd.SSL.TOTOP PICKSep 18, 2012Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Oct 21, 2025. Market Open.
He recently upgraded to Buy. He'd been concerned about capital allocation strategy, mainly doing equity financing to buy back shares at high prices. These concerns have largely passed. Cashflow from Turkish operations will begin to come through and have a potentially transforming effect. Malaise has passed, it's back in business.
The analysts are very slow to raising their earnings forecasts with the price of gold. The rebound in earnings in some of these companies will be really something. He likes the producers as opposed to the commodity. Producers give you leverage due to the fast rising earnings. He likes the Juniors as well as ABX-T.
Really likes the royalty structure in investing in precious metals. Rarely does a gold company come into production on budget and on time. Just raised $150 million, which gives them liquidity to do additional deals. They’ll grow their share of production from 35,000 ounces this year to about 65,000 by 2014.