Newmont doubles its payout

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NEWMONT MINING $32.44 (New York symbol NEM; Shares outstanding: 530.8 million; Market cap: $17.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 0.6%; www.newmont. com) is one of the world’s largest producers of gold and copper, with major mines in the U.S., Peru, Suriname, Australia and Ghana. The company has revised its dividend policy, which is linked to gold prices. The new program sets a minimum annual payout of $0.10 a share when gold is trading below $1,150 an ounce. The dividend then rises in stages to a maximum of $1.10 if gold moves above $1,600. As a result of this new policy, Newmont doubled the quarterly dividend with the December 2016 payment, to $0.05 a share from $0.025. The new annual rate of $0.20 yields 0.6%. Meanwhile, Newmont made $0.38 a share in the quarter ended September 30, 2016. That’s up 192.3% from $0.13 a year earlier. Revenue rose 14.8%, to $1.8 billion from $1.6 billion. Newmont is still a buy, but only for investors…