The Top 10 Gold Mining Stocks to Own Right Now

Happy Tuesday, GoldBuzzers!

Since this newsletter started, one request has landed in my inbox more than any other. It doesn't come from active traders - that’s what INSIDER is for, with daily signals, commentary and a model stock portfolio that reshuffles every week. It comes from long-term holders: "Rick, I don't want to trade. Just tell me which stocks you'd personally buy and hold."

For months I've given the same answer: I'm working on it. Because a buy-and-hold list deserves to be done properly - including company analysis, real research behind every name, and an honest look at each stock's worst stretch alongside its best. With everything else that goes into producing GoldBuzz each week, that took additional time.

Now it's done. And in today’s Take Action Tuesday, I’ll show you what's in it and tell you how I used it last year and why I’m using it now.

Ok. Let’s get into it. ⬇️

Gold eased back on Monday as the dollar hit a near eight-week high and traders took some profit off the table after Friday's run to $4,380 - the metal's first weekly gain in a month.

Oil kept sliding as markets looked for signs of diplomatic progress on the Iran conflict around this week's UN meetings, which took some heat out of the inflation picture, though Washington and Tehran traded fresh threats over the weekend.

Rates are the other half of the story: the Federal Reserve delivered its first hike since 2023 last Wednesday and the Bank of Japan lifted rates to a 31-year high, with both hinting at more to come after the ECB's own move earlier this month. Futures markets now put roughly nine-in-ten odds on rates sitting higher by December.

Rising rates usually work against gold because it pays no interest, yet both metals are holding their ground - a decent clue that investors still want insurance while the Middle East stays this unpredictable.

Back in February 2025, 6 months before GoldBuzz launched, I was testing methods for building mining stock portfolios. I had beta testers lined up who were ready to test what’s now the GoldBuzz INSIDER portoflio.

As part of that work, I had built a system which downloaded thousands of historical quarterly reports from several hundred worldwide mining companies. The purpose was to scan the reports to identify the fundamental factors most likely to predict great long-term investments.

Combine those fundamentals with how each company’s price performance compares to a benchmark and you should have a good recipe for finding companies to buy and hold for the long-term.

Not for Trading

This particular research wasn’t for trading. It was the opposite of trading. It was to identify ten companies that I could buy in equal amounts, then leave them alone for months or years. I quickly discovered that the method worked very well when I tested it on previous years.

But the first time I actually ran it live was February 2025, and here’s how those original ten stocks have performed after 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and until today, each compared with buying and holding a mining stock index (GDX).

Up 32.6% at three months. Up 51.6% at six. Up 199.9% at twelve. Up 201.2% today, nineteen months on, against 127.6% for GDX, the gold miners index. Ahead of the sector at every checkpoint, without a single trade after day one.

And if you’re curious, here are those original ten companies, stock by stock:

Every position up. Seven of ten ahead of the index. And the one that’s worth looking at closest is the one that actually started worst.

At the three-month mark, 1911 Gold was the basket's only loser, down 14%. A trader would have stopped out. This approach's answer is to do nothing. Twelve months in, that stock was up 332%, the third-best in the entire basket.

What’s the lesson?

The lesson isn't that losers always come good. It's that in a strong gold market, owning really good companies and sitting tight is a strategy most people can't execute, because sitting tight is the hard part.

That simple portfolio has performed so well since last year that it made the decision for me. Many of you who haven't yet joined INSIDER keep asking for help choosing mining stocks for the long term, and this approach is exactly that.

Today the product is launched.

The GoldBuzz Top 10

Ten gold stocks, selected by the identical methodology that picked those 10 stocks back in February 2025. The stocks are intended to be bought promptly and held. Before you ask: most of the early-2025 ten are no longer on the list. The rankings moved on, and so did the names.

It's a 38-page report, and three pages of it are dedicated to each stock. Each company’s data page gives you a summary of the key facts including every exchange it trades on. The record page shows production and costs from the very latest company filings, and the stock's last twelve month performance including its worst stretch, because knowing how a stock performs in a drawdown is vital.

You won't find that chart in most stock reports but it's the first thing I personally want to see. The commentary is my honest assessment of each of the companies - what it does, what’s changed this year, and what I'd watch.

It’s worth stating that I follow my own advice, and each one of the ten are companies I’m personally invested in for the long term.

What the system looks for

Every company gets measured on real production, real cash flow and real balance sheets from the latest reports, which naturally favors established producers. That's not a rule; when a smaller company's numbers earn a place in the ten, it can get one, as a couple did in that early-2025 list. But what the 2025 research showed me was that companies that actually dig gold out of the ground profitably should be the bedrock of a buy and hold portfolio.

In every gold bull market I've studied, the established producers move first and furthest early on: they have the leverage to the gold price and the balance sheets to prove it quarter after quarter. The speculative juniors have their day later, when the money gets brave. Therefore, a long-term metals portfolio should always be built on the first group and only ever seasoned with the second.

Pricing

What does this cost? The price for the report is $99. For launch, it's $49.50. I know analysts that sell reports like this for hundreds of dollars but I've had enough requests for this one that I'd much rather price it where anyone who wants it can have it now.

The report also comes with a credit toward annual INSIDER membership, which makes the report free if you upgrade.

One more thing worth knowing: this edition won't be on sale forever. When it comes off sale, that's it - no relaunch, no reprint. I won't sell a report dated months back as if it were current. The next edition arrives when the system next calls for one, and there's no schedule, because the market doesn't keep one.

That’s all for this Tuesday, folks. I’ll see you on Thursday.

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Rick Adams
Founder, GoldBuzz
rick@goldbuzz.com