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Mines a depleting gold resource across several countries, sells the refined metal directly to bullion banks and traders, and must keep exploring to replace what it extracts.
- Depends onUpstream position: supplies 5 industries, depends on 1
- ScaleMarket cap is $50.09B, higher than 95% of all stocks globally
- FinancialsAltman Z-Score 7.71: safe zone
- Interpretations8 currently firing — 1 · 7
What this company is and how it runs — written from structure, not news.
The system takes in geological prospects, engineering effort and physical inputs such as fuel, reagents and equipment, and turns them, over long development timelines, into a processed metal that is fungible in world markets. Some of this is coordinated through operations run directly and some through joint ventures shared with, or run by, other companies, spread across a number of separate countries with their own laws and permitting. It sits upstream of other industries that use its output, while itself depending on another industry that supplies it.
Revenue comes from selling the gold it mines, together with smaller amounts of silver and, at some operations, sulphuric acid recovered as by-products. Buyers are a defined set of bullion banks, central banks and metals-trading houses rather than end consumers. Revenue and operating cash generation have kept a multi-year upward trend at a high margin, even through a year in which bottom-line accounting profit turned negative, and a dividend that had previously been cut has been increasing back toward its earlier level.
Growth here does not come from replicating a standard unit at low incremental cost. Because each mine's ore body shrinks with every ounce taken out, scale is maintained and grown by continually finding, developing or buying new deposits to stand behind the ones being depleted. Recently this has taken the form of acquiring both producing and development assets while divesting others, alongside advancing projects already held toward production, funded from a position where cash generated by the business runs well ahead of its debt and other obligations.
Its own filings name dependence on functioning supply chains and transport, on fuel, energy and chemical inputs such as cyanide and lime, on explosives, tyres, steel and mining equipment, though the filings do not say where these are sourced from. They also name dependence on skilled technical labour, on government permits and stable laws in the countries where it operates, and, for the assets it shares rather than fully owns or runs, on its joint-venture partners. Separately, CompanyGraph's mapping shows it depending on another industry that supplies it, without naming which.
Its own filings name the buyers of its output as a defined set of international bullion banks and metals-trading or refining houses, together with the central banks of some of the countries where it operates. CompanyGraph's mapping separately places it upstream of a number of other industries that use what it produces, without naming which those are.
CompanyGraph places this company among a large group of others that run the same kind of system: extracting a depleting resource under reserve-replacement economics. That way of operating is common rather than rare. What is specific to this company is not a capability its rivals lack but the particular set of licensed deposits it holds across several countries, each tied to a specific piece of ground that cannot be substituted with rights to a different one. Whether rivals could otherwise replicate what it does is not something this profile can assess.
Companies that mine a depleting resource are generally treated, as a starting hypothesis, as limited by how cheaply they can keep finding and developing reserves to replace what they extract. In its own risk disclosures, this company points less to that framing and more to the availability of skilled mining, geotechnical and metallurgical labour, and to the uncertainty of turning a discovery into a producing mine given permitting, community support, delays and feasibility results. It states directly that it is not short of the consumable materials it needs to produce.
In its own filings, the risks named first concern operating and developing its mining projects, managing tailings and waste, environmental, health and safety law that keeps changing, the physical hazards inherent to mining, and its ability to keep replacing the ore reserve it depletes. It also names dependence on joint-venture partners for assets it does not fully control, and on host-country legal and permitting stability, as risks to itself.
Its costs and results are exposed to swings in the value of the US dollar against the local currencies its mines pay costs in, including the Brazilian real, Argentine peso, Australian dollar, Ghanaian cedi, Egyptian pound and South African rand, while revenue is mostly set in or linked to dollars. It operates under environmental, health and safety law that it expects to keep changing, and it has noted that shifts in global trade policy can move the cost of inputs, such as fuel, that it buys on world markets.
Read from the company's own filings and public materials (gathered August 2026) together with figures CompanyGraph recomputed from its statements. Written August 2026. A question with no evidence behind it is left out rather than answered.
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Post-Cut Dividend Growth With FCF And Revenue
Its dividend was cut and is climbing back, though not yet to the old level.
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Screen for these patternsIs this company financially stable?
MRQ Cash Elevated Relative To Total Debt With EBITDA And FCF Elevated Relative To Total Liabilities
Cash covers most of its debt, with earnings high against its liabilities.
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Cash Backing With OCF Coverage And Cash Near Total Debt
Cash on hand covers most or all of its total debt, and cash flow matches reported earnings.
Cash-Flow Ratios Elevated
More of its sales turn into cash than in its industry, and less of that cash is consumed by reinvestment than at most of its peers.
FCF Ratios Elevated
Its free cash flow is large next to assets and equity, and more of its operating cash reaches it than in its industry.
Revenue Growing With Receivables Growing
Revenue has risen three years, and what customers owe has risen with it.
ROE, ROA, And Operating ROA Elevated
It earns more on its equity than its industry does, and on its assets too — not on borrowing alone.
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Revenue Growth With Elevated Margin
Revenue up in each of five years, while its operating margin stays high.
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