Spinoff spotlight: Alamos Gold

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ALAMOS GOLD INC. $21 is a buy. The gold miner (Toronto symbol AGI; Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 397.8 million; Market cap: $8.4 billion; Dividend yield: 0.7%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.alamosgold.com) is now buying Argonaut Gold Inc. (Toronto symbol AR) and its troubled Magino mine in northern Ontario in an all-stock deal valued at $325 million U.S. With the purchase, Alamos will become Canada’s third-largest gold producer. The transaction is expected to create $515 million U.S. in cost savings over two decades of production from Alamos’ Island mine and the neighbouring Magino mine located northeast of Lake Superior. Alamos will use Magino’s larger mill and tailings facilities instead of Island’s. Total Alamos output is expected to increase by about 25% to around 630,000 ounces of gold per year. As part of the deal, Argonaut will place its other assets, such as the Florida Canyon mine in the U.S., as well as the El Castillo Complex, the La Colorada operation, and the Cerro del Gallo project in Mexico,…