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Ecora Royalties PLC Announces Full Year Results
Ecora Royalties PLC Announces Full Year Results
LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / March 26, 2026 / Ecora Royalties PLC (LSE:ECOR)(TSX:ECOR) announces full year results for the year ended 31 December 2025. The Company will publish its audited 2025 Annual Report and Accounts later today, which will be available on the Group's website at www.ecoraroyalties.com and on SEDAR at www.SEDAR.com.
Ecora is a leading critical minerals focused royalty and streaming company. Copper is at the core of the portfolio which also includes other commodities linked to the trend of electrification, energy transition, infrastructure renewal and urbanisation, digital infrastructure, robotics and energy security.
Marc Bishop Lafleche, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"2025 was a landmark year for Ecora. Our critical minerals royalties and streams delivered record portfolio contribution representing the first time in the Group's history where the majority of the Group's portfolio contribution was derived from critical minerals.
"Project's underlying Ecora's development stage portfolio saw a number of meaningful advances during 2025, with our operator partners targeting further derisking events in the upcoming twelve months which will move these projects closer to production, underpinning a key part of Ecora's organic growth profile during the remainder of the decade and beyond.
"Ecora has delivered strong deleveraging post the acquisition of the Mimbula copper stream, which is expected to continue in 2026. Ecora retains the financial flexibility to continue to further diversify its portfolio, with a primary focus on acquiring producing or advanced stage near-production royalties or streams, to complement Ecora's existing growth portfolio."
Portfolio contribution: | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | |
US$m | US$m | Y/Y | |
Base metals | |||
Voisey's Bay (cobalt) | 18.9 | 6.2 | |
Mantos Blancos (copper) | 9.5 | 5.8 | |
Mimbula (copper) | 4.0 | n/a | |
Carlota (copper) | 0.8 | 0.6 | |
Metal stream cost of sales (1) | (4.7) | (1.2) | |
Sub-total | 28.5 | 11.4 | 150% |
Specialty metals & uranium | |||
McClean Lake (2) (uranium) | 3.7 | 4.5 | |
Maracás Menchen (vanadium) | 1.7 | 2.2 | |
Four Mile (uranium) | 2.2 | 1.4 | |
Sub-total | 7.6 | 8.1 | (6%) |
Bulks & other | |||
Kestrel (steelmaking coal) | 17.5 | 41.4 | |
EVBC (3) (gold) | 3.2 | 1.8 | |
Other | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
Sub-total | 20.9 | 43.7 | (52%) |
Total portfolio contribution | 57.0 | 63.2 |
1 Includes ongoing metal purchase costs under stream agreements, for 2025 these were: Voisey's Bay ($3.6m); Mimbula ($1.1m)
2 In 2025, principal repayment totalled $2.6m and interest received totalled $1.1m
3 Under IFRS 9, the royalties received from EVBC are reflected in the fair value movement of the underlying royalty rather than recorded as royalty income
Financial Highlights:
$57.0m portfolio contribution for the year ended 31 December 2025 (2024: $63.2m) with significant increase in contribution from base metals royalties largely offsetting reduction in Kestrel steelmaking coal contribution
Royalty and metal stream-related revenue of $55.9m (2024: $59.6m)
Profit after tax of $22.2m (2024: loss of $9.8m)
The latest Voisey's Bay mine plan extends production by four years to 2044 and accelerates near-term volumes, as a result, the Group has recognised an impairment reversal of $14.1m and a related deferred tax credit of $9.8m relating to carry forward losses which are now expected to be utilised
Adjusted earnings of $22.1m (2024: $28.9m) and adjusted earnings per share of 8.86c (2024: 11.43c)
Free cash flow of $27.4m (2024: $22.1m), a 21% increase
Strong deleveraging post the $50.0m Mimbula stream acquisition with net debt as at 31 December 2025 of $85.5m (31 Dec 2024: $82.3m), significantly below the peak of $124.6m during Q2 2025
Final dividend of 1.4c per share in line with policy, bringing the total dividend for the year to 2.0c per share (2024: 2.81c per share)
Base Metals
Base metals portfolio contribution of $28.5m, up 150% (2024: $11.4m) and representing 50% of Group portfolio contribution, driven by:
Strong production ramp-up at Voisey's Bay, which generated a net portfolio contribution of $15.3m (2024: $5.0m) from 448t of attributable cobalt (2024: 210t) at an average realised price of $19.11/lb (2024: $13.34/lb)
Record year portfolio contribution from Mantos Blancos of $9.5m (2024: $5.8m)
Acquisition of a copper stream over the Mimbula mine in March 2025, which generated portfolio contribution net of metal purchase costs of $2.9m in 2025 (2024: n/a)
Specialty metals & uranium
Specialty metals portfolio contribution of $7.6m (2024: $8.1m) representing 13% of the Group's portfolio contribution:
Toll milling rate at McClean Lake Mill stepped down in 2025 following the processing of an agreed volume of uranium, leading to a portfolio contribution of $3.7m (2024: $4.5m)
Bulks & other
Bulks and other portfolio contribution of $20.9m (2024: $43.7m) represented 37% of the Group's portfolio contribution:
Kestrel steelmaking coal royalty generated $17.5m from 2.2mt of sales from the Group's private royalty area, down vs. 2024 due to a lower average realised sale price of $143/t (2024: $223/t)
Sold a non-core royalty over the development stage Dugbe Gold Project in Liberia for a $16.5m upfront cash payment and contingent consideration of up to $3.5m
Outlook
Ecora's key commodity exposures performed strongly in early 2026. The conflict in Iran has resulted in market and commodity price volatility, however the long-term commodity price outlook, in particular copper, continues to be underpinned by strong supply/demand fundamentals
Volume growth in base metals royalties and streams expected to continue to offset a reduction in volumes from Kestrel associated with mining increasingly moving outside the Group's private royalty area
Series of value catalysts during the next twelve months with operator partners targeting a number of key project development milestones, including:
Santo Domingo:Final investment decision
Mantos Blancos: Phase II study mid-2026
Phalaborwa:Publication of DFS
Nifty: Restart of cathode operations, DFS on restart of mining operation
Analyst and investor presentation and call
A live webcast of the presentation including Q&A will be held today at 2:00 pm GMT for investors and analysts and will be available via our website at www.ecoraroyalties.com.
Please join the event 5-10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.
This will be available for playback after the event.
Event Title | Ecora Royalties - 2025 Results Presentation |
Time Zone | Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London |
Start Time/Date | 2pm (GMT) |
Duration Webcast Link Dial in details: | 60 minutes https://brrmedia.news/ECOR_FY25 UK-Wide: +44 (0) 33 0551 0200UK Toll Free: 0808 109 0700 USA Local: +1 786 697 3501 USA Toll Free: 866 580 3963 |
For further information:
Ecora Royalties PLC | +44 (0) 20 3435 7400 |
Geoff Callow - Head of Investor Relations | |
Website: | |
FTI Consulting | +44 (0) 20 3727 1000 |
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