RE: The Case For Increased M&A In The Gold Mining Sector - McKinsey17 Mar 2021 08:18
I think the main reason the SP is under pressure is due to the pandemic dynamics.
All companies took a whack this time last year, incl. gold- as the recovery started, people put money into stocks and gold as the money had to go back for FOMO as cash yields nothing. The recovery was still unclear so gold rose as well. Then out came the vaccines, this caused the gold downturn as recovery risks well greatly reduced. As most companies seen undervalued as hadn't recovered people invested in them (CEY reached a peak on gold price, so had effectively "over recovered"). So people continued to pile in on "un recovered" stocks, where the gain could be far greater to get back to pre-pandemic levels. Gold continued down, therefore gold stocks did. Obvious in hindsight, but at the time there were many traditional levers buoying the price for gold, none of which helped this time. Now I think CEY and goldies in general will recover as very low, and as we move to later in the year, some of the key stocks that have now recovered will see weakness and we don't know what there markets will like- at the moment all is seen as rosey.