Sentiment!6 May 2018 11:38
Over the past 7 quarters ending in Q3’17, GDX’s top-34 gold miners reported average AISC of $866.
In 2017 gold averaged $1258 per ounce, so the major gold miners were collectively earning profits of $393 per ounce. That equates to hefty 31% profit margins, levels most industries would die for.
The gold miners’ stocks are now priced as if this industry was operating at massive cashflow losses with its very future viability called into question. Yet obviously that isn’t the case, as the gold miners are generating big positive cashflows and profits today.
The only explanation for this epic fundamental anomaly is extreme sentiment, which never lasts for long. Because the stock markets soared in taxphoria last year, investors shunned gold and everything related to it. Thus the gold stocks fell deeply out of favor, universally ignored if not scorned. When that weird psychology inevitably shifts, the beaten-down gold stocks are going to stage a massive catch-up upleg.
Sooner or later the markets will wake up to these cash machines.
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