Here’s our Pick of the Month – January 2011

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CAMECO CORP. $38.25 (Toronto symbol CCO; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (306-956-6200; www.cameco.com; Shares outstanding: 393.5 million; Market cap: $15.0 billion; Div. yield 0.7%) is the world’s largest uranium producer. It supplies over 18% of global production, and has large, high-grade reserves, low-cost operations, significant market share and a number of uranium mines. The company also holds a 31.6% interest in Ontario’s Bruce Power partnership, which operates four of the eight reactors at the Bruce plant, North America’s largest nuclear-power complex. Uranium traded as low as $40 U.S. a pound in March 2010. Recently, it rose as high as $61, largely on news that China plans to raise its nuclear-power generation targets by 60%. Cameco recently signed two contracts with Chinese nuclear utilities: it will deliver 23 million pounds of uranium to China National Nuclear Corp., China’s largest nuclear-power producer, by 2020. It will also deliver 29 million pounds of uranium oxide to fast-growing nuclear producer China Guangdong Nuclear Power through 2025. In the…