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Q: Pat: Can you please give me your recommendation on Detour Gold Corp.? Thanks.

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A: Detour Gold Corp., $13.67, symbol DGC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 174.9 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; www.detourgold.com), finished building its Detour Lake mine in northeastern Ontario in February 2013. It’s now operating the open-pit mine at full capacity. Over the mine’s remaining 22 years, Detour expects its production to average 655,000 ounces a year. Detour continues to make improvements to the mine’s efficiency in order to boost output. The latest is the addition of a new hydraulic shovel and two more haul trucks. As a result, in the three months ended June 30, 2017, gold production rose 7.7%, to 150,138 ounces from 139,359 a year earlier. The company now expects to report total production of between 550,000 and 600,000 ounces this year. It will likely generate cash flow of $1.63 U.S. per share in 2018. The stock trades at just 7.0 times that estimate. Detour holds cash of $128.3 million U.S., or $0.73 a share. Its total debt of $307.7 million is…