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  • Richard 

    Interesting that NEM was not listed, B2Gold is recommended but has been flat for the past 12 months as well as showing losses for 2 and 5 year (35% for 5 years). How can BTO.TO pay a 6.2 % yield ?

    • Thanks for your question.

      We wanted to zero in on Canadian stocks—so we didn’t include Newmont.

      Looking at B2Gold’s dividend sustainability:

      We think that in some cases, the best measure of a company’s ability to maintain its cash dividends is its cash flow per share, rather than its earnings per share.

      Earnings per share includes a number of non-cash items such as depreciation/depletion and amortization. These are reported for tax purposes. Those changes also have the effect of distorting regular earnings. So, rather than focus on earnings, we also look at cash flow. That excludes items they don’t have to set aside cash for, including those depreciation charges.

      For example, in the nine months ended September 30, 2024, B2Gold lost $617.3 million. However, it reported positive cash flow of $811.2 million—more than enough to cover its $138.0 million of dividends paid in the nine months.

      Meanwhile, while share price performance is perhaps indirectly linked to dividend sustainability (as an indicator of trends in earnings and cash flow), it not a direct indicator of sustainability.

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