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Gold vs Silver – Gold STILL Wins

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GOLD VS SILVER 

The past year has been wild and crazy for both gold and silver. After peaking at about $120 oz. scarcely one week ago, silver gave up almost 40% of that in one day, with an intraday low at $73. A strong reversal to the upside brought the price back to $84 at the close (January 30, 2026). Silver closed today (February 6, 2026) at $77, down 8% since last Friday’s collapse.

Gold, after peaking at $5500, dropped below $5000 with a loss of about 11% (January 30th) and closed today (February 6th) at $4966, a few dollars below last Friday’s close.

Rather than try to predict what might or might not happen next, let’s take a look at where we’ve been. More specifically, we will compare gold and silver performance since 2016, 2011, 1999, and 1980. As good as silver’s price performance has been, gold STILL wins.

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Gold, Silver, & Gold Stocks Since 2011 – Gold Kills It!

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As anticipation builds regarding possible outsized performance for silver and gold stocks, it might be worthwhile to review past performance for the two upstarts versus their mentor and perennial favorite, gold.

The chart below shows monthly closing prices for gold, silver, and gold stocks since their respective price peaks in August 2011. The prices are “normalized” to illustrate percentage changes and direction. All three items are indexed to a starting value of 100.  The respective origin prices are $1825/Gold, $41.76/ Silver, 601/Gold Stocks-HUI; closing prices as of May 30, 2025 are $3288/Gold, $32.95/Silver, 398/Gold Stocks-HUI…

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Gold vs. Silver – Absolutely No Comparison

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GOLD VS. SILVER

In the five months between March and August this year, the price of silver increased from a fourteen-year low of $11.77 per ounce to a seven-year high of $29.26. That is a whopping gain of one hundred sixty-three percent.

Meanwhile, gold’s price rose from its low of $1472 per ounce to a recent high of $2061. That represents a gain of forty percent, which is certainly a handsome number. Nevertheless, silver’s performance outshone gold by a ratio of four-to-one.

However, five months doesn’t tell the whole story. For those who were and are, hopeful that this is just the beginning of silver’s day in the sun, be warned. Looking at the bigger picture historically, silver can’t hold a candle to gold.

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