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Price performance of commodity gold versus gold miners

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Price performance of commodity gold versus gold miners

How do these performances compare over the last 1-2 years? If its not too big an ask what are the relative performance comparisons between the commodity & miners for copper, gold & silver & comparing all 3? Is there a superior commodity when comparing all 3?

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Hi Robert,

A big question hence we will keep it simple and look over the last two years:

  • Commodities: Gold +93%, Silver +109%, and Copper +28%.
  • Stocks: Evolution (EVN) +180%, Northern Star (NST) +74%, and Sandfire Resources (SFR) +123%.

NB Unfortunately, there are no major silver stocks traded on the ASX.

In terms of gold stocks, we chose two of the largest, but it’s been a great time for virtually all precious metal miners. A couple of points of note here:

  • Sandfire (SFR) and other global copper stocks, who investors can get exposure to in the ETF WIRE, have significantly outperformed the industrial metal.
  • Gold stocks have generally outperformed the precious metal but not in all cases with operational issues causing underperformance in some cases.
  • M&A has been active in the gold sector which has delivered some standout wins for investors who selected the targets.
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Gold, Silver and Copper
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