Analysts’ Consensus Picks for Most Promising Gold Mining, Silver Mining & PM Streaming Companies (+2K Views)

We have been following analyst predictions for gold & silver mining stocks and precious metals streaming companies on Yahoo.com for some time now. In this article we document their current consensus price targets and take note of recent target changes where applicable.

So writes Itinerant in excerpts from his exclusive posting on seekingalpha.com entitled Precious Metal Analyst Watch – April Edition.

This post is presented compliments of Lorimer Wilson, editor of www.munKNEE.com (Your Key to Making Money!) and the Intelligence Report newsletter (It’s free – sign up here).

In the article, which can be read in its entirety here (it can not be reposted as it would infringe on the arrangement the author has with seekingalpha.com), Itinerant goes on to say:

We prepared three individual tables with our data:

1. one for gold mining companies,
2. one for silver mining companies; and
3. one for precious metal streaming companies.

These three tables are displayed below with comments given below each table.

Parting Shot

Judging from the data provided by analysts the picks for the three categories for April would have to be (continue reading)

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