What counts as a Gold & Precious Metals stock?

Gold and silver miners plus the royalty and streaming companies that finance them — a group people reach for when they want exposure to the metal rather than to the broader market. Earnings swing with the commodity, which the quality-growth score reflects. Membership is curated and hand-maintained: a company earns the tag when the theme is a material driver of its business — either a pure-play, or a larger company for which the theme is a named, reported growth engine. Tangential exposure doesn't qualify. The names below are those in our US universe, ranked by score.

How are the best Gold & Precious Metals stocks ranked?

Each name is scored on the Bull Rankings quality-growth model — one 0–100 score blending business quality, growth, and valuation — the same score used everywhere on the site. The table ranks them highest first.

How often is the ranking updated?

The universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the ranking reflects the latest fundamentals and prices.

GOLD & PRECIOUS METALS · scores as of Aug 7, 2026

Best Gold & Precious Metals stocks.

The theme: Gold and silver miners plus the royalty and streaming companies that finance them — a group people reach for when they want exposure to the metal rather than to the broader market. Earnings swing with the commodity, which the quality-growth score reflects.

How this ranking works

Standard classifications describe what a company files as, not what it's a bet on. This is a curated list of the Gold & Precious Metals names in our US universe: the pure-plays, plus the larger companies for which Gold & Precious Metals is a real, reported driver rather than a passing mention. Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site (how it's built), and re-scores every trading day.

#	Ticker	Company	Score
1	AUMetals & Mining	AngloGold Ashanti plc	71.3
2	AGIMetals & Mining	Alamos Gold Inc.	69.9
3	BTGMetals & Mining	B2Gold Corp.	69.7
4	KGCMetals & Mining	Kinross Gold Corporation	69.1
5	HMYMetals & Mining	Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited	68.4
6	SSRMMetals & Mining	SSR Mining Inc.	68.1
7	FNVMetals & Mining	Franco-Nevada Corporation	66.1
8	WPMMetals & Mining	Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.	63.1
9	NEMMetals & Mining	Newmont Corporation	60.5
10	HLMetals & Mining	Hecla Mining Company	58.4
11	PAASMetals & Mining	Pan American Silver Corp.	56.0
12	CDEMetals & Mining	Coeur Mining, Inc.	55.8
13	RGLDMetals & Mining	Royal Gold, Inc.	51.6
14	EGOMetals & Mining	Eldorado Gold Corporation	49.9
15	EXKMetals & Mining	Endeavour Silver Corp.	47.4
16	AEMMetals & Mining	Agnico Eagle Mines Limited	39.5
17	GFIMetals & Mining	Gold Fields Limited	28.3

The Gold & Precious Metals group at a glance

Where these companies are filed

The 17 members report under 3 different industries, which is exactly why no standard sector view groups them:

Gold15
Other Precious Metals & Mining1
Silver1

What kind of businesses these are

Average pillar scores across the 17 scored members, against every stock the model scores:

Pillar	Gold & Precious Metals	Market	Read
Quality	72.5	56.0	16.5 above
Growth	50.0	61.7	11.7 below
Value	61.2	44.1	17.1 above

Pillars run 0–100 against sector peers. A low Value reading means the group is expensive relative to what it earns, not that the businesses are weak — for an early-stage theme that is the normal shape.

Scores across the group run from AU at 71.3 down to GFI at 28.3, with a median of 60.5. A theme is a thesis, not a quality filter — membership says a company is exposed to Gold & Precious Metals, and the score says what the model makes of the business.

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