Topic: Growth Stocks

Stock Pickers Digest Hotline – Friday, September 2, 2011

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CAMECO CORP., $22.23, symbol CCO on Toronto, has launched a hostile takeover bid for Hathor Exploration (symbol HAT on Toronto). Cameco is offering $520 million, or $3.75 a share. Hathor’s main exploration properties are on the east side of the Athabasca Basin. This region contains all of Canada’s producing uranium mines, and accounts for 23% of global production. Right now, Hathor is exploring for uranium at its Midwest Northeast project, which is close to producing properties owned by Cameco and AREVA of France. The Midwest Northeast property is Hathor’s most advanced project. The company is focusing its exploration on the Roughrider zone, where it has found significant uranium mineralization over the last couple of years. Roughrider could hold as much as 57.9 million pounds of uranium. It is also near Cameco’s Rabbit Lake mill. Cameco holds cash of $1.2 billion, or $3.30 a share, so it can easily afford to make acquisitions like Hathor to enhance its long-term growth prospects. Hathor is…