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YAMANA GOLD $2.13 (Toronto symbol YRI; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (416-815-0220; www. yamana.com; Shares outstanding: 946.6 million; Market cap: $1.9 billion; Dividend yield: 1.0%) owns eight operating gold mines in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. It also holds a 12.5% stake in the Alumbrera copper/gold mine in Argentina and has a number of other properties in advanced stages of development. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, the company’s gold production fell 1.9%, to 325,897 ounces from 332,344 a year earlier. The decline mainly resulted from lower ore grades at two of its mines. Gold prices fell 12.1% in the latest quarter. That, plus the lower production, cut Yamana’s cash flow by 25.9%, to $133.9 million from $180.7 million. Cash flow per share declined 39.1%, to $0.14 from $0.23, on more shares outstanding....
ALAMOS GOLD $3.40 (Toronto symbol AGI; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (604-681- 2802; www.alamosgold.com; Shares outstanding: 255.5 million; Market cap: $921.0 million; No dividends paid) took its current form in July 2015, when Alamos Gold merged with Stock Pickers Digest recommendation AuRico Gold. The combined firm owns the Mulatos mine in Mexico and the Young-Davidson project in northern Ontario, which holds as much as 5.6 million ounces of gold. Young- Davidson started up in 2013 and will reach full production this year. In the three months ended December 31, 2015, Alamos’s gold production rose 5.7%, to a record 104,734 ounces from 99,083 a year earlier. The company holds cash of $320.8 million U.S., which it will use to complete Young-Davidson and increase its gold output from 380,000 ounces in 2015 to over 400,000 this year....
REITMANS (CANADA) LTD. $3.63 (Toronto symbol RET.A; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (514- 384-1140; www.reitmans.com; Shares outstanding: 64.6 million; Market cap: $230.3 million; Dividend yield: 5.5%) owns 773 women’s clothing stores across Canada. The chain consists of 332 Reitmans, 135 Penningtons, 107 Addition Elle, 83 RW & Co., 68 Thyme Maternity, 17 Hyba (yoga clothing) and 31 Smart Set outlets. It also has 21 Thyme Maternity boutiques in Canadian Babies “R” Us stores. In December 2015, the company’s sales fell 2.5% from December 2014. That’s mainly because it closed 65 stores in the past year. Sales rose 4.8% on a samestore basis, while online sales jumped 40.0%....
CAMECO CORP. $15.75 (Toronto symbol CCO; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (306-956-6200; www.cameco.com; Shares outstanding: 395.8 million; Market cap: $6.3 billion; Dividend yield 2.5%) officially opened its Cigar Lake mine in northern Saskatchewan in September 2015 after a series of technical problems, including an underground flood in 2006 that put construction several years behind schedule. The $2.6-billion project is tapping into one of the world’s largest high-grade uranium deposits. The company now expects Cigar Lake to produce 16 million pounds (8 million to Cameco) of uranium in 2016. The mine should reach its full capacity of 18 million pounds a year in 2018. Cameco is still a hold.