NYSE · HQ: Denver, CO · CEO: Natascha Viljoen · Mkt Cap: $115.8B · World's largest gold producer
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$108.44
+$2.64 (+2.50%)
Jun 16, 2026 · Signal v6
DISCLAIMER: This is a quantitative framework for educational purposes only. It is not financial advice. Always do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions.
Horizon
Signal
Composite Score
Confidence
Key Driver
Short-term (1–3 mo)
WAIT-FOR-EVENT
65
62%
FOMC Jun 17 (high-impact, gold rate-sensitive) — let the decision clear before timing an entry
Five independent scores — Business Quality, Valuation Attractiveness, Entry/Exit Timing, Underlying Drivers, and Economic Alignment — each 0–100 with a confidence. The per-horizon base BUY/HOLD/SELL comes from the three fundamental pillars (Quality / Valuation / Timing) via the Decision Matrix; the two context pillars (Underlying Drivers, Economic Alignment) then amplify a BUY to STRONG BUY when both corroborate. Here a BUY base + gold-margin Tailwind (76) + Materials "Strong Outperform" economy lifts Medium and Long to STRONG BUY; Short is held at WAIT by the imminent FOMC.
Business Quality
74
Net-cash balance sheet, 69% EBITDA margin, record FCF; weak commodity moat caps it
Confidence: 78%
Valuation
76
~10.5× fwd P/E, ~10.7% FCF yield, +32% to consensus target
Confidence: 88%
Entry/Exit Timing
56
Oversold bounce off $92 reclaiming SMA200; below SMA50, FOMC tomorrow
Confidence: 62%
Underlying Drivers
76
Gold ~$4,150 vs $1,680 AISC — ~$2,470/oz margin (≈60% of spot)
Confidence: 62% · STRONG-eligible (Tailwind)
Economic Alignment
78
Trend-Following · Tailwind
Confidence: 72% · Macro report 2026-06-13
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Hard Gates & Do-Not-Buy Status
Binary safety checks — financial distress, valuation ceiling, accounting/dilution, binary events, commodity floor (severe driver collapse) and an imminent-event blackout. Any TRIGGERED gate is a hard Do-Not-Buy regardless of how strong the scores are; a CAUTION is a note for position sizing. Newmont clears every distress gate (net cash, 68× interest coverage, falling share count); the only live note is the FOMC-blackout that holds the short-term timing.
✅
Financial Distress Net cash (~$2.8/sh), D/E 0.16, interest coverage 68×, current ratio 2.44 — clear.
✅
Valuation Ceiling $108.44 sits below every analyst target (low $111, median $140). Clear.
✅
Accounting / Dilution Share count falling 1,147M→1,085M on $6B buyback. No dilution. Clear.
✅
Regulatory / Binary Event No FDA / antitrust / single-asset binary. Clear.
✅
Severe Driver Collapse Gold ~$4,150 ≫ $1,680 AISC — driver 76, nowhere near the viability floor. Clear.
⚠️
Imminent-Event Blackout (Short only) FOMC Jun 17 — high-impact for a rate-sensitive gold miner. Caps the short-term signal at WAIT-FOR-EVENT; does not affect Medium/Long.
No Do-Not-Buy trigger fired. Hard-gate state: CLEAR (the FOMC item is a short-horizon timing caution, not a structural block).
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Pillar Detail: Business Quality
Why Quality scored 74: a deep dive into mining economics (AISC margin), cash generation, balance sheet, the competitive moat, and capital allocation. Lifecycle = Cash Cow / Mature senior producer; metrics use the Mining/Materials profile (AISC, FCF yield, P/NAV) rather than growth-stage SaaS metrics.
Business Quality — Pillar Score
A genuinely high-quality miner — tier-1 scale, 69% EBITDA margin, net cash, record free cash flow — held back only by the structural lack of a commodity moat (a price-taker) and rising 2026 unit costs.
INDUSTRY BENCHMARK: AISC Margin (Mining)
Spot gold ~$4,150/oz · 2026 AISC guidance $1,680/oz · AISC margin ≈ $2,470/oz ≈ 60% of spot.
Rating: STRONG — margin > 40% of spot. Even after gold's −25% slide from its $5,608 January peak, Newmont still clears ~$2,470 of cash margin on every ounce. Benchmark score: 92/100.
Competitive Moat Scorecard
Pricing Power
25
Pure price-taker on gold
Network Effects
50
N/A (neutral)
Switching Costs
50
N/A (neutral)
Cost Advantage
52
Scale + tier-1 assets, but mid-tier AISC
Intangibles
48
Tier-1 reserves/jurisdictions; no brand
Moat average ≈ 45. This is expected and not penalised beyond reason — miners earn returns from scale, reserve quality and cost position, not from moats. Newmont's edge is being the largest, most diversified senior with tier-1 jurisdictions; its weakness is that unit costs sit mid-pack versus Agnico Eagle / Kinross.
$1.02/yr, payout only 13% of earnings, covered 9× by FCF-after-capex
Very safe; room to grow
Management skin-in-game
Typical large-cap insider ownership; no excessive SBC
Neutral ~50
FMP financial-health rating: A− (overall 4/5) — DCF, ROE and ROA all max (5/5). The D/E, P/E and P/B sub-scores (2/5) reflect FMP's absolute thresholds, not real weakness: the actual D/E is 0.16 and the "low" P/E is a function of peak-cycle earnings, both of which are strengths here.
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Pillar Detail: Valuation Attractiveness
Why Valuation scored 76: sector-appropriate multiples (P/NAV proxy via EV/EBITDA, forward P/E), the universal FCF-yield anchor, a reverse-DCF read of what growth the market is pricing, embedded optionality, and the analyst-consensus cross-check. The tension to keep in mind: these multiples sit on near-peak-gold earnings, so "cheap" must survive a gold-price normalisation — which the reverse-DCF below shows it does.
Valuation Attractiveness — Pillar Score
Attractive on every honest lens — ~10.5× forward earnings, ~10.7% free-cash-flow yield, 6.7× EV/EBITDA, and a price below the lowest analyst target. The market is pricing in a meaningful gold pullback that the cash flows can absorb.
76
Confidence 88%
Multiple
Current
Reference
Read
Forward P/E (2026E EPS $10.31)
~10.5×
Senior-producer norm 12–18×
Cheap
Trailing P/E (TTM EPS $7.79)
13.9×
Below own multi-year mid
Attractive
EV / EBITDA (TTM)
6.7×
Sector mid-cycle 7–9×
Attractive
P / Tangible Book
3.6×
Premium for 24% ROE — justified
Fair
Dividend yield
0.94%
Low payout (13%) — buyback-led returns
Fair
FCF YIELD (universal anchor): FCF/sh $11.31 × ~1.07B sh ≈ $12.1B FCF ÷ EV $112.5B ≈ 10.7% (≈10.6% on market cap). Anything > 8% is "very attractive." Newmont is throwing off cash at a double-digit yield even after the gold correction.
Reverse DCF — what is the market pricing?
At $108.44 (EV $112.5B) on ~$12B trailing FCF and a ~10% WACC, the market is implying roughly flat-to-mildly-declining free cash flow in perpetuity — i.e. it is pricing in a substantial gold normalisation off the $4,900/oz Q1 realisation. Yet consensus still sees EPS holding ~$10–11 through 2028 (2026E $10.31, 2027E $11.53, 2028E $12.77). Implied growth < consensus growth → the market is pessimistic → Attractive. You are not paying for gold to stay at record highs; you are paying a price that already assumes it falls.
Embedded Optionality / Free Upside — what you own at $108 that the price barely values:
Copper & by-product credits (unquantified but real): growing copper exposure (Boddington, Cadia) plus silver/zinc/lead by-products that lower gold AISC — the macro report rates copper "Strong Outperform" long-term. The market values NEM as a pure gold play.
Gold re-rating optionality: the reverse-DCF assumes gold falls; a return toward the $5,608 January ATH on the structural de-dollarisation / central-bank bid is upside the core price does not embed (kept separate from the Driver to avoid double-counting).
$6B buyback at a discount: repurchasing below every analyst target compounds per-share value — an accretive call option management is actively exercising.
Reserve / exploration growth: tier-1 land position revalues sharply at higher gold (industry undeveloped-asset values are re-rating, per recent transactions).
Net: the in-production gold business alone justifies most of the $108 even on conservative gold; copper, buyback accretion and gold re-rating are largely free. Optionality is a +5 tilt here, not the thesis.
Analyst Consensus Cross-Check
Metric
Value
Read
Consensus target
$143.33 (+32% vs $108.44)
Price >20% below consensus → strong support (85–100)
"Buy" consensus, no sells; Bernstein & Scotiabank upgrades recently
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Pillar Detail: Underlying Drivers
The dominant external force Newmont is tethered to — the gold price (with real interest rates as the inverse second-order driver, and copper as a secondary by-product driver). A context pillar: a Tailwind ≥65 can lift a BUY to STRONG BUY; it does not move the fundamental scores. This section also names the thesis-invalidation floor.
Gold ran $1,800 (2022) → $5,608 ATH (Jan 2026), then a −25% correction to ~$4,150 by mid-June. Secular bull intact, momentum decelerating. (news, FRED)
70
Current (50%)
Spot ~$4,150 vs 2026 AISC $1,680 → ~$2,470/oz margin (~60% of spot). For Newmont's economics this is extraordinarily favourable (skill anchor: $2,200 vs $1,300 AISC = "90+"). Tempered slightly by negative near-term momentum and a rising-real-rate backdrop (10Y 4.47%, sticky 4%+ CPI, hawkish Fed). (FMP, web, Jun 2026)
86
Forward (25%)
Macro report rates GLD "Strong Outperform" across all horizons on de-dollarisation + central-bank buying; near-term headwind from real rates, the Hormuz de-escalation removing the war premium, and a −400k oz production step-down. (MacroDriver 2026-06-13)
64
Driver = 0.25·70 + 0.50·86 + 0.25·64 ≈ 76 → Tailwind. This makes NEM eligible to amplify a base BUY to STRONG BUY (it does not change Quality/Valuation/Timing). Thesis-invalidation floor: a sustained gold price toward ~$2,000/oz (collapsing the AISC margin) would break the case — roughly a 50% further fall from here, well below any current scenario.
Driver confidence 62% — base 70, −8 for gold's inherent volatility / wide forward dispersion.
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Pillar Detail: Economic Alignment
How the current macro climate sits relative to Newmont, read from the latest Macro-Economic report. It classifies the macro pressure as Tailwind / Neutral / Headwind, and frames a long entry as Trend-Following or Contrarian with a 0–100 conviction. The pressure is the second amplifier — a Tailwind alongside the gold-margin driver lifts a BUY to STRONG BUY.
Field
Reading
Source
MacroDriver Weekly, dated 2026-06-13 (3 days old — fresh). NEM is not a named watchlist line, so mapped via its GICS sector → Materials (XLB) in the Driver-Sector Impact Matrix. (sector-map)
Sector signal
XLB: Short SO · Medium SO · Long SO (Strong Outperform across all horizons). Capital flow: IN / IN / IN. GLD asset class: SO / SO / SO.
Regime
Dominant regime Stagflation (44%) — oil shock + hawkish Fed; Critical drivers: Iran/Hormuz crisis & private-credit stress; rising de-dollarisation (3→4). A textbook backdrop for a gold producer.
Pressure
Tailwind (anchored on Medium; Short and Long both Tailwind too).
Stance · Conviction
Trend-Following · 78 — going long rides a strongly favourable economic trend (gold/Materials are the regime's preferred exposure).
Amplification: the Tailwind pressure, alongside the Driver's Tailwind (76), lifts the base BUY to STRONG BUY for Medium and Long. The Short horizon stays at WAIT-FOR-EVENT because the §8 imminent-FOMC override governs the short-term tape regardless of the favourable economy.
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Pillar Detail: Entry/Exit Timing
Why Timing scored 56: the risk-reward setup, relative strength vs SPY and the gold-miner ETF (GDX), the macro overlay at Materials' high sensitivity weight, news-derived sentiment, and the 0–12 month catalyst cluster. Read this to understand when to act — the fundamentals are strong, but the tape is mid-recovery and an FOMC sits one day out.
Entry/Exit Timing — Pillar Score
A constructive but unfinished recovery: a sharp oversold bounce off the $92 low that has reclaimed the 200-day ($102) and is pressing the 50-day ($110.7) — but relative strength vs the S&P is still poor and tomorrow's FOMC is a binary swing factor for gold.
Above support $102 (SMA200) / $98; stop logic at $92; resistance $110.7→$115→$122. RR to base target ≈ 1.9:1
62
Relative strength
NEM −18% from pre-war vs SPY at record highs (+10%); roughly in line with GDX (−17%). Lagging the market, recently outperforming on the bounce
35
Macro overlay (Materials, high-sensitivity, 20%)
Fed hawkish (gold headwind) vs sector rotation strongly IN (XLB SO) — net constructive
55
Sentiment (15%)
Analyst grades net-positive (Bernstein upgrade Feb, Scotiabank Oct; all maintains since at Buy/Outperform, 0 downgrades). News tone near-term negative ("gold bear market," production cut) offset by "undervalued / record FCF"
48
Catalysts (15%)
FOMC Jun 17 (high impact); next earnings ~late July
52
Timing = 0.30·68 + 0.20·62 + 0.20·55 + 0.15·48 + 0.15·52 ≈ 56. The RSI tagged 30 at the $92 low on Jun 10 and has turned up with the MACD histogram inflecting positive — a classic higher-timeframe-uptrend / lower-timeframe-pullback bounce. Confidence 62% (base 75, −10 for a high-impact FOMC within 7 days in a high-sensitivity sector, −3 RS noise).
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Economic Event Risk
The next ~2 weeks of high-impact macro releases that can swing a rate-sensitive gold miner, plus the last week's surprises. Materials is a High macro-sensitivity sector, so a high-impact release within 3 trading days triggers a WAIT-FOR-EVENT short-term override — which is exactly the case here with the FOMC one day out.
Date
Event
Impact
Forecast / Prev
Relevance to NEM
Jun 17
FOMC rate decision + projections + presser
HIGH
Hold 3.75% (prev 3.75%)
✅ Critical — real-rate path is gold's primary macro lever. Hawkish hold = gold headwind; any dovish tilt = tailwind
Jun 17
US Retail Sales (May)
HIGH
+0.5% / +0.5%
⚠ Growth/inflation read feeds the rate path
Jun 25
Core PCE (May)
HIGH
~+0.3% (sticky)
✅ Inflation surprise moves real rates → gold
~late Jul
Newmont Q2 2026 earnings
HIGH
—
✅ Realised gold, AISC, FCF, buyback pace
Recent surprises (last 7d): NY Empire Manufacturing 5.7 vs 14 forecast (soft), Industrial Production +0.1% MoM (soft), Housing Starts 1.177M vs 1.43M (well below), Atlanta Fed GDPNow trimmed 3.3→2.8. The growth data is cooling — mildly supportive of an eventual dovish pivot (gold-positive), but the June FOMC is still expected to hold at 3.75% with easing language at risk of removal. This is why the short-term signal is WAIT-FOR-EVENT: the directional view is fine, but acting the day before the FOMC adds avoidable path risk.
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Multi-Timeframe Technical Analysis
Trend, RSI, MACD and breakout status across five timeframes plus a confluence verdict. The tool's headline confluence is "strongly bullish," but the honest read is a higher-timeframe uptrend with a daily chart still mid-repair — the textbook "buy-the-dip in an uptrend" pattern, pending the 50-day reclaim.
The monthly and weekly trends remain up; the daily turned down in the early-June gold flush to a $92.77 low (RSI 30) and is now rebounding hard — RSI back to 53, MACD histogram inflecting positive, and price has reclaimed the 200-day ($102) and the 20-day ($105). The decisive level is the 50-day at $110.70: a daily close above it on volume confirms the recovery and would satisfy the technical entry rule. Support convergence at $102–104 (SMA200 + swing low) is the high-probability buy zone; $92 is the line in the sand.
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Price Chart (6-Month Daily)
Six months of daily closes with the 50-day SMA and 20-day Bollinger Bands overlaid, plus the key support/resistance levels. The visual tells the story: a January blow-off to $134.88, a grinding correction, an early-June capitulation to $92.77, and a sharp V-recovery back to $108.
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Scenario Summary
Bull / Base / Bear 12-month price paths with explicit triggers and probability weights. The spread is wide because the path is gold-dependent — but note the asymmetry: the bear case still leaves Newmont highly cash-generative, while the bull re-rates it toward the Street's high.
Bull · 30%
$172
+59%. Gold re-rates toward the $5,000+ / January ATH on de-dollarisation + central-bank buying and an eventual Fed pivot; buyback compounds per-share value. Tracks the $175 Street high.
Base · 45%
$140
+29%. Gold stabilises $4,000–4,500; ~$2,400/oz margins drive record FCF; the valuation gap to consensus (median $140) closes. Trend-following base case.
Bear · 25%
$88
−19%. Real rates keep climbing / Fed hikes, risk-on rotation pulls capital out of gold toward $3,000–3,500; production step-down + rising AISC squeeze. Retests the $92 low.
Probability-weighted target ≈ $137 (0.30·172 + 0.45·140 + 0.25·88 ≈ $136.6), i.e. ~+26% over 12 months — and even the bear case keeps the company net-cash and FCF-positive.
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Entry / Exit Rules
Mechanical conditions to enter and exit. Entries must satisfy multiple independent checks (fundamental, technical, blackout-clear, momentum); exits are governed by a hard stop, thesis invalidation and a profit-take. At $108.44, 2 of 4 entry criteria are met and 0 of 3 exit criteria are live.
Entry Rules — 2 / 4 met
METRule 1 — Fundamental: price < fair value ~$135 (yes, $108.44) AND no earnings within 7 days (yes) AND Driver ≥ 50 (yes, 76). → Forecast: met now.
NOT METRule 2 — Technical breakout: daily close > 50-day SMA $110.70 on volume >1.5× AND RSI 35–65 AND MACD histogram positive ≥2 days. → Forecast: ~1–2 weeks if the bounce holds — price is $2.30 (≈2%) below the 50-day and RSI/MACD already cooperate. Moderate.
NOT METRule 3 — Event blackout clear: no high-impact macro event within 3 trading days. → Forecast: clears Jun 18, the trading day after the FOMC. High confidence (date-certain).
METRule 4 — Momentum / RS turn: reclaim 200-day SMA $102 (yes) AND MACD histogram inflecting positive (yes, +0.29) AND outperforming the sector on the bounce (yes). → Met now.
Exit Rules — 0 / 3 live
CLEARRule 1 — Hard stop: daily close < $92 (Jun-10 swing low) for 2 consecutive days. → 15% below; not triggered.
CLEARRule 2 — Thesis invalidation: gold sustained toward ~$2,000/oz (margin collapse) OR full-year guidance cut AND Driver < 35. → Not triggered (gold ~$4,150, Driver 76).
CLEARRule 3 — Profit-take: price ≥ median target $140 AND RSI > 70. → Not triggered ($108, RSI 53).
Key levels: Fair value ~$135 · Resistance $110.70 (SMA50) → $115 → $122 → $134.88 (ATH) · Support $102 (SMA200) → $98 → $92 · Hard stop $92 · Base target $140 · Bull $172.
Imagine you act at the current price $108.44 · as of Jun 16, 2026
What if you bought now?
You'd be risking −$16.44 (−15%) to the $92 stop to gain +$31.56 (+29%) to the $140 base target.
Risking: downside to the $92 hard stop (−15%); bear case $88 (−19%); plus you'd be buying below the 50-day (technical rule not yet met) and the day before the FOMC (blackout rule not yet clear).
Gaining: base $140 (+29%) and bull $172 (+59%) you start capturing immediately; ~10.7% FCF yield + 0.94% dividend working for you; copper, buyback-accretion and gold-re-rating optionality owned for free.
Net: risk-reward ≈ 1.9:1 to base, ~4:1 to bull. Assessment: the deal is good, but waiting one day for the FOMC to clear (then buying on a 50-day reclaim) materially improves the entry for little opportunity cost.
What if you sold now?
You'd be giving up +29% base upside to $140 to protect against the −19% bear path to $88.
Giving up: base-case upside to $140 (+29%); the ~10.7% FCF yield and embedded optionality; you'd be selling ~20% below fair value ~$135 and below every analyst target.
Protecting: capital if gold rolls over to the $88 bear case. Exit rules currently triggered? None — no stop, no thesis break, no profit-take.
Net: no mechanical reason to sell. This is a hold/accumulate zone, not an exit.
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Position Sizing Context
A framework for translating conviction into allocation given risk-per-share and sector volatility — illustrative portfolio math, not advice.
No risk budget or portfolio role was provided for this batch run, so a specific position size is not computed. Volatility context for sizing: ATR ≈ $4.90 (~4.5% of price) — a wide daily range typical of a gold miner; 52-week range $55.37–$134.88 (the stock has already had multiple 10–25% drawdowns this year); equity beta 0.455 (low correlation to the S&P, but high sensitivity to gold). Because gold-miner returns are leveraged to the commodity, even a modest position carries gold-price risk well above its market beta. Staggered entry suits this setup: a first tranche on a post-FOMC 50-day reclaim, a second near $102 (SMA200), a third near $92 should the gold correction extend.
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Calibration Snapshot
Machine-readable snapshot of every score, confidence, key level and signal override, saved alongside this HTML as calibration-NEM-20260616-1703.json so the next run can compute deltas and the watchlist monitor can trigger without parsing HTML. No prior calibration exists for NEM (the April v4 report has no JSON), so this is a fresh baseline — no "Changes Since Last Report" is rendered.
Audit trail of every data source used, with OK / partial / fail indicators and the confidence haircuts applied. Consult this if a number looks off or to understand why confidence sits below the raw composite.
TSX:NGT listing — no NGT.TO data; fell back to US NYSE:NEM (USD) per Canadian-fallback rule
Impact on scores: Driver confidence held at 62% (gold spot/AISC web-sourced, not MCP). Timing confidence 62% (FOMC within 7 days, high-sensitivity sector; next earnings date estimated). Quality/Valuation confidence high — full MCP coverage. The TSX:NGT fallback does not affect USD figures, which all come from the NYSE:NEM listing. Methodology: stock-analyst v6 — base Decision Matrix (Quality/Valuation/Timing) → amplification (Driver + Economic-Alignment pressure) → hard gates → Do-Not-Buy, computed per horizon.
DISCLAIMER: This is a quantitative framework for educational purposes only. It is not financial advice. Always do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions.