Topic: Growth Stocks

IAMGOLD $9.38 – Toronto symbol IMG

IAMGOLD $9.38 (Toronto symbol IMG; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (1-888-464-9999; www.iamgold.com; Shares outstanding: 376.1 million; Market cap: $3.5 billion; Dividend yield: 2.7%) is buying Trelawney Mining and Exploration (symbol TRR on Toronto).

Prices of junior mining stocks are depressed, so IAMGold is getting a bargain at $608 million, or $3.30 for each Trelawney share. That’s a premium on the $2.30 it was trading at before IAMGold’s offer, but it’s well below the high of $5.91 that Trelawney shares hit in July 2011.

Trelawney’s Cote Lake gold project, located between Timmins and Sudbury, could hold as much as 6.9 million ounces of gold. The deal also lets IAMGold expand its operations in politically safe countries; its biggest mines are in Suriname and Burkina Faso in West Africa.

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