Iamgold Corporation (IAG) Stock Analysis
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IAMGOLD Corp. engages in the exploration, development and production of gold and mineral resource properties. It owns and operates the Westwood mine in Quebec and the Cote Gold project, a development project located in Ontario. The firm also operates the Rosebel mine in Suriname, the Essakane mine in Burkina Faso, the Saramacca project, an exploration project located in Suriname, the Boto project, an exploration project located in Senegal. The company was founded by William D. Pugliese, Mark I. Nathanson, and Larry E. Phillips on March 27, 1990 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Price | $18.80 |
| Market cap | $10.9B |
| Sector | Basic Materials |
| Industry | Gold |
| ClaritX AI score | 87/100 |
| Price/Book | 2.47 |
| Beta | 1.98 |
AI verdict
IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE: IAG) stands as a profoundly undervalued precious metals juggernaut expertly weaponizing an impenetrable balance sheet. Fundamentally, the enterprise is an absolute financial fortress fortified by an elite 31.46% net profit margin, a staggering 28.08% return on equity, and a microscopic 0.1227 debt-to-equity ratio. Valuation multiples remain drastically suppressed, highlighted by a single-digit 9.45 P/E ratio, a discounted 5.03 EV/EBITDA multiple, and a ~14.5% free cash flow yield. Instead of squandering liquidity, management systematically repurchased 27.9 million shares for $510 million while self-funding the commercial ramp-up of the Côté Gold project. Backed by unified $23 Wall Street price targets, the equity is entirely detached from its elite operational reality. Crucially, operating with an extreme beta of 2.255, the equity is mathematically wired to heavily magnify baseline commodity upswings. Trading at $18.80, the asset sits precisely 24.41% below its 52-week euphoric peak of $24.87, actively launching off a successfully defended 200-day SMA support floor at $18.33. A high-beta stock at its 52-week high operating on pure retail euphoria and a beaten-down stock with identical elite fundamentals are drastically different risk propositions; IAMGOLD's 24.41% discount effectively neutralizes top-heavy momentum risks. This convergence of deep value, pristine balance sheet metrics, and technically de-risked support presents an exceptionally high
What this score has been worth
ClaritX scores IAG 87 out of 100 (snapshot 2026-10-21).
Every ClaritX analysis is scored first and judged only on what the stock did afterwards. Across the 202 analyses that scored in the 85-89 band, the average forward return was +2.6% with a 60% win rate, -2.5pp against the S&P 500. That is a measured tendency across many names, not a forecast for IAG — roughly 40% of stocks in this band still lost money.
The full band-by-band table, including the bands that lost, is on the AI Rank Report; the live strategy arms behind it are on the AI Track Record, losses published.