Topic: Mining Stocks

Gold stocks: Newmont ties its dividend to the price of gold

Newmont Mining Corp., New York symbol NEM, links future dividend hikes to the price of gold: it will raise the quarterly rate by $0.05 a share for each $100-per-ounce rise in its average selling price for gold in the preceding quarter.

The company has now enhanced this policy. If gold prices exceed $1,700 an ounce, it will raise the quarterly dividend by an additional $0.025 a share, for a total increase of $0.075 a share.

If gold prices rise above $2,000 an ounce, Newmont will raise the dividend by an additional $0.05 a share, for a total increase of $0.10 a share.

The company last paid a quarterly dividend of $0.30 a share on September 29, 2011. The implied annual rate of $1.20 yields 1.9%.

Gold stocks: Even with gold prices down, new policy offers opportunity for profit

Gold prices have moved down from their peak of $1,918 an ounce in August 2011 to today’s price of $1,626. Still, this gold stock’s new policy gives investors an opportunity to automatically profit when gold prices rise.

In the second quarter, the gold stock’s attributable net income from continuing operations rose 37% over the same period a year ago. At that time, the board of directors approved a gold price-linked dividend hike of 50%, to $0.30 a share.

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