Updating Iamgold Corp., Broadridge Financial Solutions, and Hecla Mining

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IAMGOLD $4.51 (Toronto symbol IMG; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (1-888-464-9999; www.iamgold.com; Shares outstanding: 450.7 million; Market cap: $2.0 billion; No dividends paid) holds 92.5% of the Cote gold project in Ontario. Construction had been expected to start early this year, with production beginning in late 2020. At full capacity, a mine is expected to produce 367,000 ounces of gold per year for 16 years. However, the company will now delay building until gold prices improve. Despite that news, IAMGold’s shares are up 21% since mid-January. That’s likely due to the company’s potential as a takeover candidate. The industry has, in fact, seen two recent acquisition deals: Barrick Gold (symbol ABX on Toronto) has now closed its $6 billion U.S. acquisition of African miner Randgold Resources; and Newmont Gold (symbol NEM on New York and a recommendation of our Wall Street Stock Forecaster newsletter) has announced it will buy Goldcorp Inc. (symbol G on Toronto) for $10 billion U.S. IAMGold’s market cap of $2.0 billion makes it an affordable acquisition…