Topic: Growth Stocks

New Gold $4.20 – Toronto symbol NGD

NEW GOLD $4.20 (Toronto symbol NGD; SI Rating: Speculative) (888-315-9715; www.newgold.com; Shares outstanding: 212.1 million; Market cap: $891.0 million) is the result of the merger completed on June 30, 2008 of three companies: Peak Gold, symbol PIK on Toronto, Metallica Resources, symbol MR on Toronto, and New Gold, symbol NGD on Toronto.

New Gold operates three mines: the Peak gold/ copper mine in Australia, the Cerro San Pedro gold/ silver mine in Mexico and the Amapari gold mine in Brazil.

New Gold expects to produce 297,000 ounces of gold in 2008 and 350,000 ounces in 2009. The company also has $319 million in cash to expand production at the Amapari mine, to develop the El Morro gold/copper mine in Chile and to develop the gold/ silver/copper Afton mine in British Columbia.

New Gold’s board of directors includes Ian Telfer, chairman of Goldcorp, and Pierre Lassonde, the chairman of Franco Nevada.

New Gold is a buy.

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