Motley Fool's - Strong Gold CompaniesTo dig up strong gold companies, I turned to The Motley Fool's CAPS screening tool. My search criteria:
- Companies that operate in the metals and mining industry. Within the screen results, I specifically looked for gold companies.
- Companies with CAPS ratings of four or five stars, the two highest ratings from the more than 125,000 investors in our CAPS community.
- Companies with price-to-earnings ratios of 30 or less, because I didn't want any stocks that were too expensive.
Here's what I found from running the screen:
Data from Motley Fool CAPS, Yahoo! Finance, Capital IQ. N/M = not meaningful.