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| One thing that we found very encouraging this quarter, was the continued efforts on our cost savings, 50% year-over-year decrease in cash operating costs in Q3 2023 and that really translates well to this revenue profile chart |
| So royalty companies should be doing significantly better because they provide that optimum leverage, that investment model provides you that leverage while protecting you from inflation |
| We have a nice profile, almost hockey-stick profile in our revenue growth over the course of the next little while, while our cost structure is now been quite well stabilized under Andrew's stewardship over the last year since he took over as CFO |
| So very, very cost-effective way to add additional royalty optionality into the portfolio |
| We saw several positive advancements on our key assets |
| We've drove in a lot of the redundant costs out of the business, and that's why you've seen such an appreciable improvement in our operating cost profile |
| Leading revenue growth within the sector, key assets well on track to enter production over the near and mid-term |
| This really helps us and the company communicate more effectively with you in the future |
| So they're in an excellent position to hopefully execute on a smooth ramp-up and significant free cash flow generation -- revenue generation or a royalty over the course of 2024, which represents a significant step change for us in our total revenue profile and again, drives us into free cash flow positive territory |
| As we stated in our presentation, our company's operators, Agnico Eagle, i-80 Gold, Blackrock Silver, all announced material positive developments on their respective projects over the course of the quarter as well, which Peter will get into in a bit more detail in his presentation |
| A key area of upside and continued exploration success is the South Pacific Zone, which is currently free resource and we're excited to see the South Pacific Zone have a resource delineated on it and be included as the mines may rise in 2024 for development and potential future production |
| So we're quite encouraged by the continued strong performance at Cozamin, which is currently planned out till 2030 based on reserves alone, but also for the potential for this asset to grow, and they're expected to publish an updated resource estimate in early 2024 |
| And I suspect in future quarters, certainly through 2024, we will be free cash flow positive, which I think is great for profitability |
| Beyond those six core assets, we now have or expect to have over 240 royalties across the portfolio, and there are various other advancements and exciting catalysts, but those were some of the key material pieces of progress that we saw in the Gold Royalty portfolio in Q3 |
| And we're poised to be significantly free cash flow positive in 2024 with the startup of Cote next year, which, when fully producing will be Canada's second biggest producing gold mine |
| So we're very bullish on Agnico, delineating a larger resource of the internal zones, and they've continually emphasized that the internal zones represent upside to increase production from the underground during the transition period |
| So relative to our very attractive bargain purchase price of CAD1 million in Gold Royalty stock, we have the potential to benefit with multiples of that in terms of proceeds from these buybacks and milestone payments before we even consider the exploration and the optionality associated with the remaining royalty after those buybacks has been exercised |
| Look, time and again, since our IPO in 2021, we've been able to demonstrate that leveraging the relationship that our Board and Management have with collectively 400 years of industry experience, has led to significant growth |
| This translates into a 40% increase in the underlying net asset value per share of the business, a significant increase and a significant creation of value for Gold Royalty shareholders, albeit it has not been translated across the share price |
| And that's really the benefit also to scale, is that, you can spread those costs across a larger base as companies get bigger, it's a good rationale for consolidation going forward |
| So hopefully, I can't guarantee it will be exclusive going forward, but hopefully, now that we've established the structure is something that we can leverage, time and again, through that strong fundamental relationship with SOQUEM |
| We're encouraged by the continued advancement of the project |
| The company's business model includes acquiring royalties, streams and similar interests at varying stages of the mine life cycle to build a balanced portfolio, offering near, medium and longer-term attractive returns for investors |
| We also saw a 48% increase in our total revenue land and agreement proceeds |
| Joanne Jobin Excellent, that's a great milestone |
| And this is a massive, massive mineral system, and we're very excited to see the potential for that East Gouldie style mineralization trend to the east towards our 1.5% NSR at Midway |
| So we've been able to demonstrate |
| So we're quite excited to see that East Gouldie style mineralization starting to appear under the Gold Royalty coverage area |
| So we do all four things we think quite capably, which is unique value proposition for the small-cap royalty universe among our competitors |
| And also, we continue to add royalties through our royalty generator model, adding two in the current quarter with significant well-capitalized operators |
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| And I'm talking among the producers, significant capital expenditure pressures, significant operating cost pressures, declining reserves and production, which has driven M&A, which I think has demonstrated over time, that's a zero-sum game |
| There's been a baby with a bathwater type of a reaction in the gold sector and that's obviously disappointing to gold investors who are looking for leverage to, was an increase in gold price globally |
| What clearly was not a highlight in the quarter, and I'm the first to admit it, is, share price performance, and it has to been very, very frustrating for investors in the gold universe to see this type of gold chart and not getting the kind of performance and leverage of the gold price they should expect in a rising gold price environment |
| The biggest companies in royalty sector get the bus multiples, but the biggest companies are also challenged to grow |
| And I think that's resulted along with shrinking reserves and production profiles and a significant cycle of M&A activity among the producers has seen capital kind of disappear from the space and unfortunately the royalty and streaming companies have been tarred with same brush in spite of the fact that we provide cost installation |
| They have high-quality portfolios, but are significantly challenged to grow given their absolute scale |
| And we've seen a significant underperformance, particularly in the last year relative to the gold price in the GDXJ Index and that's a smaller-cap universal where we've seen a 20% underperformance relative to the gold price, but we've also seen that in the larger-cap universe |
| I mean, there are some fundamental costs in our company that are difficult to avoid |
| And there's been an exodus of capital out of the gold sector that's resulted in significant underperformance of equities to the gold price, but I think it's well overdone in the royalty sector, where I think there's significant value, and in particular, in the Gold Royalty stock |
| And that's a reflection, I think in the producer universe of declining reserves and also increasing operating costs and capital costs, and that's eaten into their margins even as the gold prices maintain value at about $2,000 an ounce |
| In fact, going back to 2018, given the shrinking pie of reserves, shrinking production profile, you're going to start to see and continue to see the larger-cap players in the producer universe continue to consolidate |
| It doesn't create value in the sector |
| We've seen subsequent decreases quarter-over-quarter, and that's really eliminating redundancies connected with prior corporate transactions, there's been disciplined use of consultants, professional services, et cetera, there may be some additional refining of contracts as we go into 2024 |
| And let's talk about focused on precious metals in North America, and I'm going to combine this with another question from someone regarding platinum pricing and gold is nearing the cheapest valuations ever |
| So gold price hasn't grown meaningfully, but the costs had |
| So when you look at our company compared to other Canadian listed companies or foreign listed companies, we do have some fundamental costs that are difficult to decrease |
| Now that has been -- we have seen less production from the Barnat Pit just to the sequencing at Canadian Malartic |
| Also the fact that we're only listed in New York, has an impact on our regulatory and listing fees being listed only in New York is a relatively fixed cost as well |
| What's clear to me is that, when we start to get into sustainable free cash flow next year, we're going to have to reintroduce the concept of returning capital to shareholders in whatever form |
| For the first time, we were free cash flow neutral as we drove down our cash operating cost by 50% |
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