New Gold Is a Buy

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NEW GOLD $7.95 (Toronto symbol NGD; SI Rating: Speculative) (888-315-9715; www.newgold.com; Shares outstanding: 211.9 million; Market cap: $1.7 billion) is the new name for Peak Gold, formerly symbol PIK on Toronto. New Gold is the result of the merger of three companies: Peak Gold, Metallica Resources, symbol MR on Toronto, and New Gold, symbol NGD on Toronto. Under the terms of the merger, Peak Gold shareholders received 0.1 of a New Gold share and $0.0001 in cash for each Peak share held. New Gold expects to produce 297,000 ounces of gold in 2008 and 350,000 ounces in 2009. The company also has $500 million in cash to expand production at Peak’s Amapari mine in Brazil, to develop Metallica’s El Moro mine in Chile and to develop New Gold’s Afton mine in British Columbia. We first recommended Peak Gold in the March, 2008 issue of Stock Pickers Digest. The shares are now up 43.8%. New Gold is a buy. buy…