Our top gold is now stronger

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NEWMONT GOLDCORP CORP. $32 (New York symbol NEM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 819.6 million; Market cap: $26.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.newmont.com) took its current form on April 18, 2019, when Newmont Mining acquired Goldcorp Inc. Newmont paid $9.4 billion in shares plus $17 million in cash for Goldcorp. The merged company is the world’s largest gold producer. Its mines are in North America and other politically stable countries in South America, Australia and Africa. The new company has also folded its gold mines in Nevada into a new joint venture with Barrick Gold Corp. (New York symbol GOLD). Barrick owns 61.5% of the joint venture and operates it. Newmont holds the remaining 38.5%. By eliminating duplicate processing and other operations, the partners expect to cut an average $500 million annually from their pre-tax costs within five years. Newmont expects to produce 5.2 million ounces of gold in 2019. It also expects annual production will eventually…