Opinions
Bill Harris, CFA
Sandstorm Gold Ltd.
SSL-T
COMMENT
Jul 27, 2016
$7.050
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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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.
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PAST TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Nov 20/19, Up 8%) It's lagged the sector, because it's a royalty company. You need to hold producers and royalties in a portfolio. With royalties, you expect more asset growth in the value of these assets. These companies help finish financing and building a mine for a producer. Once that mine is running, the royalty takes a cash flow off the top that the royalty company hands to shareholders, plus the value of the resource/metal. As that value rises, so will the cash flow. SSL continues to buyback shares, have a lot of cash flow, and are great value at current prices. He has a $13 target and it's a hold.
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TOP PICK
Well run company which should experience a sudden and dramatic increase in cash flow. Another example of the sum of the parts is worth more than the whole. Turkish asset will soon generate cash and their Turkish partners are high quality. 9 Buys, 3 Holds, 0 Sells. (Analysts’ price target is $12.25)
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BUY
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.
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Going back 3 years, we had an incredible bull market in gold. All sorts of properties that probably shouldn’t have gone into production, went into production. Huge amounts of money got spent in the industry with not really an internal rate of return. The whole gold sector has bounced back. This one is a whole mixed bag, and to go into all those projects that they acquired at the height of the bull market, there are some real question marks.