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| So why is this good news? It's good news because real price appreciation in our segment happens when Utilities are at or above replacement rate |
| This is a very strong fundamental story |
| So then, I would say the producers are in a lot stronger bargaining position |
| So as this market continues to discover stronger incentive pricing, we will capture that and forward contracts better than anybody else does |
| That's very supportive for the market going forward |
| So that's an excellent value capture |
| This is a good position for us to be in proven reliable supplier with brownfield leverage at a time when we know the market needs more supply |
| This is really good news for a Cameco an incumbent producer, not even operating our current assets at full capacity |
| As more utilities come to the market term contract more, we're going to see a much stronger price response |
| So we're emerging from this very deliberate supply discipline strategy, back into much stronger earnings and cash flow, just from the uranium segment, similarly from conversion, and then of course, the fabrication aspect that Westinghouse participates in is really important |
| That's very good news for a producer because only a producer can satisfy demand out into that window |
| We think that's a pretty strong value proposition |
| And the fourth fact is, what we successfully do is we bring you exposure to an upside and incredible downside protection |
| And that's a pretty exciting place for us to be at a time when the available options for customers are shrinking |
| So our strategy based upon our approach gives you incredible upside participation, incredible downside protection, because we understand exactly how this market works |
| As it went down to $17, our average realized price dramatically outperformed the market, to the point that we remained an investment-grade company through the lowest price off cycle in the history of the uranium market on a cost adjusted basis |
| It's pretty powerful value proposition |
| The demand fundamentals look great |
| And we're capturing the value of the best contracts in the market |
| We are fully taking advantage of all of those incumbent competitive advantages that I talked about earlier |
| We have our most success in what we call off market negotiations with Utilities |
| What we need to see is higher uranium prices because higher prices will convert uranium resources into uranium reserves that will incent investment that investment will be deployed to create new supply and will be able to balance this excellent outlook from a demand point of view with supply |
| And of course, as the market price goes up, our ability to grab higher floors, higher ceilings, and lock those into long-term value improves |
| And we have never been in a better position with our incumbent advantages, our existing asset base across multiple segments and multiple jurisdictions |
| Nobody is contracting for term contracts better than Cameco has |
| This is demand that I would say is very high quality |
| And so that ability to grab that value going forward, just continues |
| And I hope we can get invited back being in Orlando this time of the year, not Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada is a very welcome reprieve for sure |
| And what we try to offer our owners is a very simple value proposition, access to the durable cash flow and earnings that come from the recovery of the entire nuclear sector, and to translate that into durable contracts, durable cash flow, durable earnings, and for a great period of time over the next little while, without any greenfield investment risk |
| He knows the story really well |
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| So even in Kazakhstan, they've gone from having a huge supply of production with very few committed sales, to lots of committed sales and actually struggling with production |
| We're okay to lose that business |
| So, this doesn't put in jeopardy nuclear, but it puts it puts the challenge on the supply side which has to be solved by more term contracting to simple as that |
| And then ultimately, we had to take extreme supply discipline decisions, and we shut down the world's best mine and mill for five years from 2018 to just recently when we restarted it |
| Because the fact that I had uranium to sell would have been an overhang on the spot market |
| We never oversupply the market |
| Second thing is we never miss the market moves |
| We're coming out of a period where we had 70% of our production shut in as part of supply discipline |
| Now this may seem like a controversial statement, because our average realized price for 2024 is currently below the spot market |
| What you see is procurement has been well below requirements |
| Cameco never oversupplies the market |
| But obviously, there's a couple of consequences for doing that |
| The likelihood of those projects being brought on time and on budget is actually quite low |
| Third thing to note about this slide is that secondary supplies are diminishing that historic shock absorber in our market has gone away |
| We've seen some disruptions to production that are not reflected in that supply stack |
| The first one is Cameco never sells below the market |
| So as a result, Utilities have very little spot demand |
| After years of really, really low prices in uranium exploration projects get cancelled, development projects get sidelined, Tier 3 assets get shut down, Tier 2 assets get shut down |
| Not every utility is feeling that kind of pressure, I would say there's a group who had to respond very quickly post the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Central and Eastern Europe, parts of Western Europe |
| We've seen a lot of that demand hit the market |
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