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North American Palladium (USA) (PAL)

CAPS Rating:
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The Corporation owns and operates an open pit and underground mine known as the Lac des Iles Mine and a processing plant.

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Minerals (109), Aggressive Growth (860), Materials (342), Growth (1902), Palladium (1), Micro Cap (4701), Platinum (11), Metals and Mining (179), Hard Asset (1002)
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North American Palladium (USA) At A Glance

Current Price: $3.70
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $0.00
Previous Close: $3.62
Daily Range: $3.61 - $3.82
52-Week Range: $1.03 - $4.78
Volume: 2,330,390
Market Cap: $444.26M
P/E Ratio: 0.00
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North American Palladium (USA) (PAL)

Avatar ablengata (68.00) Submitted: 11/02/09 8:28 PM

Palladium is a dear precious industrial metal. It doesn't only hold intrinsic value like gold, it has "logical" value in the fact that palladium and platinum have some very important and special chemical properties that make them VERY important. Especially in todays world, were going green and red...More

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Avatar rknapton (88.48) Submitted: 8/03/09 2:41 PM

How did this company manage to lose soooo much money in the ripe times of 2006, 2007, and 2008? That is messed up if they run open and underground mines but could not produce a profit while commodity prices were at all time highs.

The huge recent spike in this stock is from investors sentiment t...More

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Avatar PONYUP66 (43.43) Submitted: 2/08/10 10:28 PM : Outperform Start Price: $8.96 PAL Score: -40.42

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Avatar breaker8 (51.69) Submitted: 2/07/10 11:07 AM : Outperform Start Price: $3.79 PAL Score: -3.06

Great trading stock as PPS reacts to swings in price of palladium. There will be many ups and downs on this stock while on its march to over $6.00. But you are assure a 50% gain on a BUY and HOLD and with some smart trades, you can easily double or triple your money in PAL in 2 years.

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Avatar rwojo (< 20) Submitted: 1/26/10 12:52 AM : Outperform Start Price: $3.92 PAL Score: -3.70

ok I new to this!

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Avatar TVFuddlehead (67.42) Submitted: 1/24/10 3:40 PM : Outperform Start Price: $1.72 PAL Score: 86.19

I've had this pick and watched it more than double in the year I've had it. I expect more of the same going forward, although there will be some corrections here and there.

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Avatar airrick13 (< 20) Submitted: 1/13/10 10:56 AM : Outperform Start Price: $4.16 PAL Score: -5.28

Seems to me that this stock can benefit from reflation and recovery.

On the reflation side, it's obviously a hard asset and the ability to trade it is going to increase with the new platinum and paladium ETF's coming online soon. There is a great analysis piece recently posted on Seeking Alpha that estimates the real effect of these ETF's. Just the creation of the ETF's alone will create significant demand for each of the metals as the funds need to increase minimum holdings. Beyond that, there will be the effect of higher interest in the metals just from the easily tradable (liquid) ETF's existing (think oil and gold ETF's over that last few years).

On the recovery side, as often mentioned, both of these metals are used for catalytic converters, and thus, have been tied to the auto market. Obviously, the US auto market is not what it used to be, but China just passed us in auto sales. So what will things look like in two years when we are approaching our old numbers and they are the world leader in auto purchasing. Then add India's and Brazil's increased consumption right behind it. Lastly, platinum has fallen off substantially as a jewelry metal as it is just too expensive. But have you gone jewelry shopping lately? What is the new metal of choice? Paladium.

So I say, buy, hold and wait until that sweet spot where recovery is evident and inflation from reflation is still present and collect your reward.

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