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Kristoffer Inton
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Barrick Makes Unsolicited Bid for Newmont, but Potential Deal Faces Many Challenges in Current Form

After confirming news that it considered an acquisition of Newmont on Feb. 22, Barrick Gold formally announced an unsolicited bid on Feb. 25. Barrick's all-share offer contains no premium at an exchange rate of 2.5694 Barrick shares for each Newmont share. At Barrick’s current share price, the offer price is roughly $32 per share, which is a 16% discount to our fair value estimate for Newmont but roughly within fair value range due to our very high uncertainty rating.
Given Newmont's resistance ...
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Goldcorp Inc.

Goldcorp is a gold producer engaged in the operation, exploration, development and acquisition of precious metal properties in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. Co.'s metal properties consist of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Kristoffer Inton

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