There's Something Broken About the Market

Stansberry Investor Hour

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🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Metals and mining stocks are a hot topic right now. Global commodity prices continue to surge as the Russia-Ukraine conflict rages on... The U.S. is looking to ramp up domestic production of the minerals needed to produce electric-vehicle batteries... Even the "meme stock" crowd is jumping on board, recently pushing a previously unnoticed small metals miner up nearly 800%.

According to Dan, "There's something broken about the market." So this week on Stansberry Investor Hour, he invites seasoned geologist Brent Cook to break down the real opportunities in this highly complex industry.

Over his storied career, Brent has worked in more than 60 countries consulting on proposed mine sites. His knowledge spans all areas of the mining business, from the conception stage to detailed technical and financial modeling for mine development and production. In 2008, he founded the popular Exploration Insights newsletter and helped develop what is now one of the most invaluable tools in the industry, the Drill Hole Interval Calculator.

In other words, when Brent talks about mining and geology... we listen.

On this week's episode, Brent offers four key tips for uncovering the greatest mining and exploration stocks and reveals how he personally avoids "red flag" companies. As he wryly puts it...

You can screen out a bunch. You can pick up [on] the bullsh*t. If you want to wash your hands after you've shaken, that's a bad sign.

Mining, metals, and exploration companies can be extremely volatile and speculative. But they can also be rewarding for patient, long-term investors. So whether you've already tucked a junior miner away into your portfolio, you're eyeing a few metals companies, or you're just looking to get started, be sure to check out this week's episode.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Stansberry Investor Hour. I'm your host, Dan Ferris. I'm also the editor of Extreme Value published by Stansberry Research.
0:15.0	Today we will talk with my old friend Brent Cook. He's a geologist. He's an investor in small mining stocks.
0:23.8	If you invest in those stocks, you can't afford not to listen to this. Every word of it.
0:28.8	In the mailbag today, notes about non-financial books and crypto. Interesting stuff.
0:35.4	And remember, you can call our listener feedback line 800-381-2357. Tell us what's
0:41.4	on your mind and hear your voice on the show. So my opening rant this week, let's talk about
0:46.6	stock splits. Let's talk about that and more right now in the Stansberry Investor Hour.
1:05.5	Now, why do I want to talk about stock splits? That's kind of a boring subject, isn't it?
1:08.0	And if you don't know what a stock split is, it's real simple.
1:12.2	It's just a move that companies do to create more shares outstanding and to lower their share price. So if a company has,
1:19.6	say they have a hundred million shares and they're going to split the stock two for one.
1:24.3	So if you own it for every share you had before the split, you'll have two afterwards.
1:30.4	And yes, the share price adjusts. So the market cap stays the same. Right. So if the share price
1:37.7	is $20 before the split, it'll be $10 after it. The market cap will stay the same. And it just
1:43.5	has the effect of creating more shares
1:45.9	outstanding. And like I said, lowering the share price, which if a company shares get really
1:52.6	expensive per share, like, you know, 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 or something crazy,
1:58.3	sometimes, not all the time time but sometimes they want to accommodate
2:01.9	smaller investors people who can only afford to buy 10 or 20 shares or something
2:06.3	you know or people who only have a few thousand bucks put it that way and if they only have a
2:12.5	few thousand bucks and the share price is ten thousand dollars they can't buy one share So maybe you do a share split, five for one or ten for one, and then all of a sudden
2:22.0	they can afford to buy some.
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