Assessing Barrick Mining (B) Valuation After Recent Share Price Strength

Why Barrick Mining is on investors’ radar today

Barrick Mining (B) has drawn fresh attention after its recent share move, with the stock up 2.7% on the day and showing mixed short term returns across the week, month, and past 3 months.

See our latest analysis for Barrick Mining.

Today’s 2.71% 1 day share price gain to US$45.16 comes after a softer 7 day and 30 day share price return. However, a strong 90 day share price return of 36.48% and very large 1 year total shareholder return of 170.63% indicate momentum has been building over a longer stretch.

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With Barrick trading at US$45.16 against an average analyst price target near US$55.90 and an indicated intrinsic discount of roughly 65%, you have to ask: is there real value here, or is the market already banking on future growth?

Most Popular Narrative: 120.9% Overvalued

According to the most widely followed narrative on Barrick Mining, the fair value sits at $20.44 versus the last close of $45.16, creating a wide gap investors will want to understand.

Commodity super-cycles are generally rare, and the latest one occurred in the mid-2000s when the price of gold spiked 200% on the eve of the Great Recession. Without a significant rise in cost factors, such as labor, rallies in gold and prices at $3,000 like Citi’s analysts foresee in certain scenarios would boost net margins.

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Curious how one long cycle view, rising margins, and a richer profit multiple could still point to a lower fair value than today’s price? The full narrative connects those pieces.

Result: Fair Value of $20.44 (OVERVALUED)

Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts.

However, those assumptions can break quickly if geopolitical unrest around key assets or tighter environmental rules on new projects begin to have a stronger impact than expected.

Find out about the key risks to this Barrick Mining narrative.

Another View on Barrick’s Valuation

That user narrative points to Barrick being 120.9% overvalued at a fair value of $20.44, but our DCF model tells a very different story. On those cash flow assumptions, Barrick at $45.16 sits well below an estimated value of $128.84. This suggests a very large valuation gap. Which set of assumptions do you find more convincing?

Look into how the SWS DCF model arrives at its fair value.

Build Your Own Barrick Mining Narrative

If you are not fully convinced by either valuation or prefer to lean on your own process, you can test the assumptions yourself and build a fresh Barrick story in just a few minutes, Do it your way.

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