Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX): Today's Featured Metals & Mining Winner

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Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX) pushed the Metals & Mining industry higher today making it today's featured metals & mining winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 2.1%. By the end of trading, Barrick Gold Corporation rose 70 cents (2%) to $36.26 on average volume. Throughout the day, 10.7 million shares of Barrick Gold Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 8.1 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $35.07-$36.40 after having opened the day at $36.08 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $35.56. Other companies within the Metals & Mining industry that increased today were: Coeur D'Alene Mines Corporation (CDE), up 8.2%, Harmony Gold Mining (HMY), up 8.1%, Ossen Innovation (OSN), up 7.9%, and Crosshair Energy (CXZ), up 6.7%.

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Barrick Gold Corporation engages in the production and sale of gold and copper. The company has a portfolio of 26 operating mines, and exploration and development projects located in North America, South America, the Australia Pacific region, and Africa. Barrick Gold Corporation has a market cap of $35.1 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 22.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Barrick Gold Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Barrick Gold Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels, expanding profit margins and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.

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On the negative front, James River Coal Company (JRCC), down 30%, China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources (SHZ), down 13.8%, Arch Coal (ACI), down 12.5%, and Alpha Natural Resources (ANR), down 12.2%, were all laggards within the metals & mining industry with Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU) being today's metals & mining industry laggard.

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