Wheaton Precious Metals Q4 2025 Earnings Report

Wheaton Precious Metals EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $1.22
• Consensus EPS: $0.91
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.31
• One Year Ago EPS: $0.44

Wheaton Precious Metals Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $864.71 million
• Expected Revenue: $719.59 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$145.13 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +127.30%

Wheaton Precious Metals Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q4 2025
• Date: 3/12/2026
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Friday, March 13, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 11:00AM ET

Wheaton Precious Metals (NYSE:WPM) is a Canada-based precious metals streaming company that acquires and manages long-term purchase agreements for metals produced by mining companies. Rather than operating mines, Wheaton provides upfront and ongoing financing to miners in exchange for the right to purchase a portion of the metals produced — typically silver and gold, and occasionally other precious metals — at predetermined prices. This streaming business model offers investors exposure to metal production with reduced operating and capital-cost risk compared with traditional mining companies.

The company’s activities center on structuring and maintaining a diversified portfolio of streaming agreements across multiple jurisdictions. Wheaton’s streams entitle it to receive physical deliveries of metal or the cash equivalent under contract terms, and the company works with a range of producing and development-stage mining operations to secure these streams. Its portfolio spans a variety of geographies where precious metals are mined, providing exposure to different mines, ore types and regional operating environments without direct ownership or responsibility for mine operations.

Wheaton Precious Metals was originally founded under the name Silver Wheaton and adopted its current name to reflect a broader focus on precious metals. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company is managed by an experienced executive team and board with expertise in mining finance and metals markets; Randy Smallwood has served as president and chief executive officer. Wheaton’s positioning as a financial partner to mining companies makes it a notable participant in the precious metals sector, offering investors a financing-linked route to metal production rather than direct mining operations.

Wheaton Precious Metals Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Wheaton reported a record 2025 with 690,000 gold equivalent ounces produced (above guidance) and record revenue, net earnings, and operating cash flow, driven by strong contributions from Salobo, Antamina and Peñasquito plus ramp-ups at Blackwater and Goose.
• Positive Sentiment: The company announced the largest-ever precious metal streaming deal — a $4.3 billion Antamina silver stream with BHP that doubles Wheaton’s exposure to the asset and is expected to supply ~18% of company production by 2030, strengthening its global silver position.
• Neutral Sentiment: Wheaton plans to fund the Antamina deal with cash, anticipated interim free cash flow, monetization proceeds and new debt (~$1.5B term loan plus ~$900M revolver draw), leaving estimated net debt of ~$2.4B at close but management expects to return to a net cash position in ~1 year and projects >$10B operating cash flow through 2028.
• Positive Sentiment: The board raised the quarterly dividend by 18% to $0.195 per share and reiterated a progressive dividend policy, reflecting management’s view that the elevated cash flow profile supports continued shareholder returns.
• Positive Sentiment: Guidance and pipeline: Wheaton forecasts ~860–940k GEOs for 2026 (weighted to H2) and maintains a sector-leading growth trajectory of ~50% to over 1.2 million GEOs by 2030, backed by a portfolio of permitted and funded development projects.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Wheaton Precious Metals' 2025 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad, or type your question in the Q&A box of the webinar. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. Thank you. I would like to remind everyone that this conference call is being recorded on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 11 A.M. Eastern Time. I will now turn the conference over to Emma Murray, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

[Emma Murray, VP of Investor Relations at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thank you, operator. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for participating in today's call. I'm joined today by Randy Smallwood, Wheaton's Chief Executive Officer, Haytham Hodaly, President, Vincent Lau, Chief Financial Officer, Wes Carson, VP Mining Operations, and Neil Burns, VP Corporate Development. For those not currently viewing the webcast, please note that a PDF version of the slide presentation is available on the presentation page of our website. Some of the comments on today's call may contain forward-looking statements. Please refer to slide two for important cautionary information and disclosures. It should be noted that all figures referred to on today's call are in US dollars. With that, I'll turn the call over to Randy Smallwood.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thank you, Emma, and good morning, everyone. Thank you all for joining us today as we review Wheaton's fourth quarter and full year results of 2025. Our portfolio of high quality, long life assets delivered another outstanding year in 2025, surpassing our production targets and generating record revenue, earnings, and operating cash flow. We realized annual production of 690,000 gold equivalent ounces, exceeding the top end of our production guidance for the year. Our results were supported by strong contributions from cornerstone assets, including Salobo, Antamina, and Peñasquito, alongside the continued ramp-up of Blackwater and Goose, further demonstrating the strength of our diversified streaming model.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Last month, we also announced our 2026 and long-term guidance, which outlines Wheaton's expected production growth of 50% to 1.2 million gold equivalent ounces by 2030, a remarkable milestone for our company and a first for the broader streaming and royalty industry. With the strength of our performance reinforced by our confidence in future cash flows, we are pleased to announce an 18% increase to our quarterly dividend to $0.195 per share, highlighting our commitment to returning value to shareholders. Many of you know the coming weeks will also mark an important transition for Wheaton. After 15 years as Chief Executive Officer, I will be stepping into the role of Chair of the Board effective March 31st. I have tremendous confidence in the leadership of Haytham Hodaly, who will be assuming the role of CEO next month.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Haytham has played an integral role in shaping Wheaton's strategy and growth over this past decade and has been instrumental in many of the key transactions that have helped build our portfolio into what it is today. Wheaton is entering its next chapter from a position of incredible strength with what we believe is an unrivaled portfolio of high-quality assets, a robust pipeline of development projects, and a balance sheet that continues to provide the flexibility and capacity to pursue new opportunities. With that, I would like to hand the call over to our next Chief Executive Officer, Haytham, to discuss our capital allocation strategy and some of the key developments across our portfolio. Haytham.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thank you, Randy, and good morning, everyone. 2025 was another significant year for Wheaton as we continued to execute on our disciplined capital allocation strategy focused on acquiring high quality assets, structuring agreements with strong counterparties, and maintaining attractive margins with long-term growth potential. During the year, we strengthened our portfolio with the addition of the Hemlo and Spring Valley gold streams, both of which represent high quality assets operated by experienced mining partners in low-risk jurisdictions and further enhance the diversification of Wheaton's portfolio. Following year-end, we also announced the largest fresh metal streaming transaction ever completed, expanding our exposure to the Antamina mine in partnership with BHP. Although we covered the transaction details on the announcement conference call last month, I'll briefly reiterate some of the key strategic rationales.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Quality silver production is becoming increasingly difficult to source, while demand has continued to rise for both critical and industrial uses and for silver's safe haven qualities in today's geopolitical setting. Expanding our stream on Antamina strengthens Wheaton's position as one of the largest silver producers globally. Structurally, the stream features highly attractive terms, including a production percentage dropdown limited to one-third after 100 million silver ounces are received, no buyback clause, and full exposure to commodity prices, consistent with our standard approach to streaming agreements. Already a major contributor to Wheaton's portfolio, Antamina is expected to provide approximately 18% of our total production by 2030 following the doubling of our exposure, solidifying its position as our second-largest asset.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

This is complemented by six additional assets expected to come online over the next five years, all of which have received their key permits, are fully funded, and are either nearing or already well into construction. Antamina sits on an extensive land package that hosts multiple large-scale skarn and porphyry targets with claims covering more than 1,000 sq km. The map on the left provides some visual context for the scale of the land package relative to the size of the existing Antamina pit, all of which is covered by Wheaton's area of interest. Antamina has a large annual exploration program, and to date, drilling has continued to upgrade inferred resources and further define potential at depth below the current resource pit.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Since Wheaton's first stream on Antamina back in 2015, over 95% of silver reserves have been replaced through resource conversion and exploration success, a testament to the asset's demonstrated ability to extend mine life through ongoing reserve growth. Overall, this transaction adds meaningful and immediate production from one of the world's premier lowest cost mining assets, and we strongly believe that Antamina is an asset that will be operating for decades to come. As I prepare to step into the role of Chief Executive Officer, I am confident in the strong foundation we have built, and I'm excited to support the next generation of mine builders in this unprecedented environment for gold and silver.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Interest in stream financing remains strong across a wide range of high-quality opportunities, and we remain focused on delivering sustainable value for all stakeholders while upholding the principles that have made Wheaton a leader in the streaming industry. I am deeply grateful to Randy for his guidance and mentorship and to the board for their confidence in me, and I am truly honored to lead the company into its next phase of unmatched growth within the sector. With that, I will now hand the call over to Wes Carson to provide a more detailed review of our operating results and guidance.

[Wes Carson, VP of Mining Operations at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks, Haytham. Good morning, everyone. Overall production in the fourth quarter was 205,000 GEOs, an 8% year-over-year increase, primarily driven by stronger production from Salobo and Antamina, coupled with the commencement of production at Aljustrel and Blackwater. In the fourth quarter of 2025, Salobo produced 89,000 ounces of attributable gold, representing a quarterly record, an increase of 5% compared to the prior year, driven by higher throughput and recoveries. As noted in their public disclosure, Vale continues to advance a series of growth-focused initiatives to enhance efficiency and support medium to long-term production growth across the Salobo complex. Antamina produced 1.6 million ounces of attributable silver in the fourth quarter of 2025, a 49% year-over-year increase, primarily driven by significantly higher grades and modestly improved throughput and recoveries.

[Wes Carson, VP of Mining Operations at Wheaton Precious Metals]

As previously announced, Antamina's related production in 2026 is expected to increase significantly, reflecting the addition of the new BHP stream commencing in the second quarter. Constancia produced 700,000 ounces of attributable silver and 15,000 ounces of attributable gold in Q4, a decrease of approximately 25% and 18% respectively relative to the prior year, primarily driven by significantly lower gold and silver grades and slightly lower throughput. On February 20, 2026, Hudbay announced that the depletion of the Pampacancha pit was accelerated and completed in late December following an optimized mine plan in the fourth quarter of 2025. Due to strong outperformance across several assets during the year, Wheaton exceeded the upper limit of its annual production guidance in 2025, surpassing the midpoint of the guidance range by approximately 9%.

[Wes Carson, VP of Mining Operations at Wheaton Precious Metals]

The company anticipates that 2026 GEO production will continue to grow from levels achieved in 2025, driven by expected contributions from newly acquired operating streams at Antamina and Hemlo, along with anticipated startup of several development projects, including Mineral Park, Phoenix, Marmato, and Platreef, and stable production from Salobo and Peñasquito. Attributable production is forecast to be consistent at Salobo in 2026, with slightly lower grades as per the mine plan, offset by increasing throughput, supported by staged upgrades and optimization across Salobo one, two, and three. At Antamina, attributable production is expected to increase significantly due to the newly added stream. Overall silver performance is expected to be in line with 2025, with higher throughput offset by lower grades caused by a higher ratio of copper-only ore versus copper zinc ore mined in 2026.

[Wes Carson, VP of Mining Operations at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Attributable production at Peñasquito is anticipated to increase in 2026, driven by increased stockpile processing. Attributable production at Constancia is expected to decline in 2026, reflecting the depletion of the Pampacancha pit in late 2025. Wheaton's estimated attributable production in 2026 is forecast to be 400-430 thousand ounces of gold, 27-29 million ounces of silver, and 19-21 thousand GEOs of other metals, resulting in total production of approximately 860-940 thousand GEOs. Annual production is expected to be weighted to the second half of the year, with approximately 45% in the first half and 55% in the second half, driven by mine sequencing at Salobo and Peñasquito and the ramp-up of newly operating assets throughout 2026.

[Wes Carson, VP of Mining Operations at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Production is currently forecast to grow at a sector-leading rate of approximately 50% over the next five years to over 1.2 million GEOs by 2030, driven by expected growth from operating assets, including Salobo and Blackwater, newly acquired operating assets, including BHP production from Antamina and Hemlo, and development projects including Mineral Park, Phoenix, Platreef, Koné, Kurmuk, El Domo, Spring Valley, Copper World, and Santo Domingo. From 2031-2035, attributable production is currently forecast to average approximately 1.2 million GEOs annually, supported by incremental contributions from additional pre-development assets. That concludes the operations overview. With that, I'll turn the call over to Vincent.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thank you. As outlined by Wes, production in the fourth quarter totaled 205,000 GEOs, representing a quarterly record. An 8% increase year-over-year. Sales volumes totaled over 190,000 GEOs, representing a 35% increase year-over-year, with the increase reflecting a drawdown of PB&E coupled with higher production. Strong commodity prices combined with our solid production base resulted in record quarterly revenue of approximately $865 million and gross margin of $664 million, representing increases of 127% and 168% respectively compared to the same quarter or same period last year. Of this revenue, 59% was attributable to gold, 39% to silver, and the remaining 2% split between palladium and cobalt. The higher margin reflects the leverage provided by fixed per ounce production payments across the majority of Wheaton's operating streams, which accounted for 80% of revenue during the quarter.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Notably, year-over-year margin growth exceeded the appreciation in gold prices over the same period, underscoring the effectiveness of Wheaton's business model in generating higher levered cash flows and margins in the quarter's rising precious metals price environment. At December 31, 2025, the PB&E balance totaled approximately 155,000 GEOs, representing roughly two and a half months of payable production, which is on the lower end of our expected range of two and a half to three and a half months. As is typical following a PB&E drawdown and further impacted by seasonal shipping factors early in the year, PB&E balances are expected to rebuild in the first quarter of 2026. As in prior periods, PB&E levels largely reflect normal timing differences between mine production and concentrate deliveries. These ounces expected to be delivered in the early part of 2026.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

In the fourth quarter, strong operating results and commodity prices drove record revenue, earnings, and cash flow. Net earnings increased by 533% prior year to $558 million, while adjusted net earnings increased by 179% to $555 million. Operating cash flow increased to $746 million, a 134% increase in the fourth quarter of 2024. For the full year of 2025, revenue totaled approximately $2.3 billion, representing an 80% increase compared to 2024, driven by higher realized commodity prices together with stronger production and sales volumes. Approximately 99% of revenue was derived from precious metals, including 62% from gold and 36% from silver.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Gross margin for the year totaled approximately $1.7 billion, an increase over the prior year of 108%, reflecting the strong operating performance across our portfolio, coupled with higher commodity prices. Wheaton continued to generate strong cash flow in the fourth quarter, with operating cash flow totaling approximately $746 million. During the quarter, the company made total upfront cash payments of approximately $646 million, including the $300 million dollar upfront payment for the Hemlo Goldstream, which closed during the quarter and began contributing production immediately. In addition, the company paid dividends totaling approximately $75 million to shareholders during the quarter.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

As Randy mentioned earlier, the board has declared its first quarterly dividend of 2026 at $0.195 per share, representing an 18% increase compared to the prior year. After declaring record levels of dividends in 2025, Wheaton has now returned $2.6 billion in dividends to shareholders since inception, representing over 70% of the total equity ever raised by the company. We remain committed to a progressive dividend policy, and since introducing this policy three years ago, we have increased the dividend every year and at an increasing rate, reflecting the growing cash flow profile of the company. Overall, cash and cash equivalents amounted to approximately $1.2 billion at December 31, 2025.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Subsequent to the quarter, we announced the Antamina silver stream with BHP for an upfront payment of $4.3 billion, which we expect to fund through a combination of existing liquidity and new financing on or around April 1, 2026. Funding sources are expected to include the $1.2 billion of cash on hand at year-end, approximately $400 million incremental free cash flows currently expected to be generated prior to closing, and $300 million from the recently completed monetization of non-core equity investments. The remaining balance is expected to be funded through a $1.5 billion term loan and anticipated $900 million draw on Wheaton's existing undrawn $2 billion revolving credit facility. The term loan and the revolving credit facility provides flexible, non-dilutive financing that may be repaid at any time without penalty.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

At closing, we currently expect net debt of approximately $2.4 billion, which represents a modest level of leverage for a company of our size and cash flow generation profile. With the strength of our production guidance outlined by Wes, we currently forecast more than $10 billion in operating cash flow to be generated through the end of 2028 at current spot prices. As such, we currently expect to return to a net cash position in approximately one year, while maintaining strong capacity to fund existing commitments and potential future stream acquisitions. Given our strong cash flow profile, Wheaton believes it is prudent to utilize a portion of our debt capacity to finance a transaction of this scale, allowing our shareholders to maintain maximum exposure to precious metals price upside while preserving balance sheet flexibility.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

That concludes the financial summary, and with that, I turn the call back over to Randy.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thank you, Vincent. Clearly, 2025 was another very strong year for Wheaton. It underscores the benefits of consistent execution of our strategy. As we reflect on this impressive year, there are several key highlights that stand out. First, our portfolio continued to deliver strong operating performance, with production exceeding our annual guidance and generating record revenue, earnings, and operating cash flow. Second, we continued to strengthen the quality and diversification of our portfolio through disciplined capital allocation, including the addition of the Hemlo and Spring Valley gold streams, further expanding our exposure into high-quality assets in low-risk jurisdictions.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Third, following year-end, we announced the largest precious metal streaming transaction ever completed, doubling our expected production from our best performing asset, Antamina, in partnership with the largest mining company in the world, BHP. This transaction adds meaningful near-term production while further enhancing Wheaton's long-term growth profile.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Fourth, our development pipeline continues to advance with assets such as Blackwater and Goose ramping up, alongside several other projects expected to contribute to Wheaton's sector-leading organic growth profile over the coming years to record levels of 1.2 million ounces per year. Finally, with over $3 billion in annual cash flows expected at current commodity prices, we maintain ample capacity to support a meaningful 18% increase to our annual dividend while continuing to pursue accretive opportunities. I would simply summarize this Wheaton release and these Wheaton results as record everything. With that, I would like to open up the call for questions. Operator?

[Operator]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now conduct the question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. There will be a brief pause while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from Fahad Tariq from Jefferies. Please go ahead, your line is open.

[Fahad Tariq, SVP and Equity Research at Jefferies]

Hi, thanks for taking the question. Can you just remind us over the next year or two years what the funding commitments are and whether that's been factored into the comment that Wheaton can get back to a net cash position within one year? Thanks.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Hey, Fahad, thanks for the question. We have about $1.5 billion of capital commitments over the next couple of years. Yes, the estimate that we would come back to a net cash position does include that and also paying our dividends at the current new level. You know, we have a very robust cash flow profile, where we can pay this all back in about a year.

[Fahad Tariq, SVP and Equity Research at Jefferies]

Okay. Very clear. Just on corporate development, do you see additional opportunities in the portfolio to go back to, you know, assets that you're already familiar with and maybe increase the exposure the way you did with Antamina or?

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

We always look for that opportunity. As you know, majority of our deals that have been done in the last past few years have been done with existing partners. We're always in communication with our existing partners to know, understand what their funding needs, and of course, suggest further streaming from their high-quality operations.

[Fahad Tariq, SVP and Equity Research at Jefferies]

Okay. Thank you.

[Operator]

Please go ahead. Your line is open.

[Daniel Major, Metals and Mining Analyst at UBS]

Hi, can you hear me okay?

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Yes.

[Daniel Major, Metals and Mining Analyst at UBS]

Great. Firstly, Randy, good luck in the future. I know we'll still see you, but congrats on the move. Three questions from my side. First thing on Antamina, just back to you know, just a few considerations of the transaction. I mean, I guess BHP's pitch on selling the stream was a little bit along the lines of, it's a mature asset, which is a known entity, and therefore they're happy to part with the potential upside. Where do you see the key source of upside to this asset? Is it purely in mine life extension or are there other characteristics that you see upside?

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thank you. Thank you for the question, Daniel. It's Haytham here. I'll answer the question. First of all, I think the way BHP prefaced it was they wanted to unlock silver in a time of strong commodity prices. It's not that they think this is by any means maturing and coming up to its twilight years. This is an asset that's gonna go for at least the next four-six decades based on the replenishment of the reserves that we've seen over the last 10 years as a participant with an existing stream with Glencore. We've had access to a lot of the information. You know, there are certain limitations on tailings capacity and stuff that needs expansions. There's various

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Different methodologies they're looking at to continue to expand it. From a resource and reserve perspective, this asset will be a generational asset.

[Daniel Major, Metals and Mining Analyst at UBS]

Okay, thanks. The second question, just touching on the balance sheet and funding commitments, etc. I mean, as you point out, the level of leverage even at $2.4 billion of net debt is low. How do you see this in your ability to compete in the market for new transactions over the next 12 months? Is there a limit to the kind of size of deal you would be comfortable in taking on while you're in this period of deleveraging, or are you open for business just the same?

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks for the question. I'll tell you, we're incredibly comfortable with where we are from a cash and debt position right now. We're generating over $3 billion or roughly call it $3 billion in free cash flow over the next 12 months is our expectation. Looking at our existing revolver and cash that we're generating, we would easily be able to fund a transaction in the $1.5-$3 billion range if we needed in the next little while. Outside of that, if we see any, you know, $4.3 billion Antamina transactions, yeah, we'll probably have to look for other sources of funding.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

At this point in time, you know, if you look over our last seven, eight years, you look not just at us, but our peers as well. Typically, you know, funding in this area has been $1 billion on average a year. Antamina was definitely, I would say something that is not an annual repetition. This is something that we'll continue to move forward with looking for larger transactions, but we're more than comfortable with our existing balance sheet and our cash flows going forward to fund any transactions we see in front of us.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Daniel, if I may add, Randy here, you know, when we've been talking about the concept of multi-billion-dollar streams now for a while, and there will be multi-billion-dollar streams coming down the pipe. Most of those are gonna wind up being construction funding of big copper projects. You know, the advantage of those, of course, is that you drip-feed that over a period of time during the construction process. Which, of course, you know, the advantage being you don't have anywhere near the permitting risk if you're buying royalties and such, where you typically wind up having to pay upfront. But that drip-feed of construction also gives us plenty of capacity. You know, we still see plenty of capacity to enter into multi-billion-dollar streams.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

You know, ideally, if they're on operating assets like Antamina, we will find a way. We've never been limited from a capital perspective. I would actually simply describe our current balance sheet is efficient right now. It doesn't have any lazy cash sitting there looking for a place. We are in the precious metals business. We're not in the cash storage business. I personally think that this is the perfect place for a balance sheet to be in our business because we are fully exposed to the metal as our shareholders are investing into us for. Pretty comfortable with where we are. I would also add, it's Vince here. If you step back, the leverage that we have is very modest.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

It's 0.7x net debt to EBITDA level. You have to remember, as a streaming company, our EBITDA is our cash flow, so it can't be compared to another producer, for example. You know, being able to delever in a year is an extremely powerful cash flow profile that we have.

[Daniel Major, Metals and Mining Analyst at UBS]

Very clear. Thanks. Just one more, if I could. Just a couple of modeling questions just around the distribution of cash flows through the year. Two points you've given the schedule for capital commitments on streams, about $590 million during the year. Distribution through the year on that. Also, can you remind me when you would expect to make the tax payment? I think it was $115 million during the year.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

The tax payment is expected to be in the second quarter. You know, June 30th is the timing. In terms of the upfront payments, for Q1, I would say, you know, excluding the Antamina stream, probably in the $250 million range, plus or minus, depending on some timing. For the entirety of 2026, again, excluding Antamina, would be about $500 million. 2027 is about, you know, $500-$600 million at this point. Obviously, these things are really dependent on construction schedules. Again, we have plenty of capacity to fund all that.

[Daniel Major, Metals and Mining Analyst at UBS]

Great. Thanks a lot.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks, Daniel.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

As a reminder to ask a question, please press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. Our next question comes from Lawson Winder from Bank of America Securities. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

[Lawson Winder, Equity Research Analyst at Bank of America Securities]

Yeah, thank you, operator. Good morning, Randy and team. Thank you for today's update and nice quarter. Could I ask about the dividend and just thinking about how the dividend relates to gold price. When you were considering today's updated level, you know, how is the downside in gold price factored in? Or put another way, to what gold price on the downside is the dividend level sustainable?

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Hey, Lawson. You know, our current dividend policy, paying the $0.195 represents just over 10% of our operating cash flows. You know, we have to see a materially lower gold price and silver price before, you know, we're constrained at all. You know, I think we ran some math, even if we went down to $3,000 gold, the amount we're paying out is still only kinda in the mid-30s in terms of percentage of operating cash flow. Very sustainable in terms of what we're paying. Our goal is to have a progressive dividend where we, you know, deliver this growth back to our shareholders in a consistent manner over time. We're trying to avoid these big hockey stick jumps and deliver it in a more gradual manner.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

You know, we have a lot of room to grow our dividend and a lot of room to maneuver if there were any downside in the price.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Lawson, it's Haytham here. A couple years ago, we started this progressive dividend. We'd been paying a dividend that was previously linked to cash flows. We increased it by 3.5% two years ago. Last year was by 6.75% roughly. This year it's by 18%. We've got something that should give you a lot of comfort. You know, and what I would say, regardless of what the commodity price does, even if the commodity price halves, we still have a lot of comfort. We have 50% growth in cash flows over the next five years. Even if commodity prices went down by 50%, we still have 50% increase in production. We don't see that being any kinda concern for us whatsoever.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

In fact, I think over time, as we continue to generate more cash flows, we would expect to continue to see that dividend increase as well.

[Lawson Winder, Equity Research Analyst at Bank of America Securities]

Yeah. That's very helpful. Thanks, Vince. Thanks, Haytham. Then just related to that and, you know, related to the earlier question on, you know, size of deal. I mean, Haytham, you mentioned like $1 billion-$1.5 billion would be sustainable, but I mean, even at those levels, we're looking at, you know, net leverage of below 2x. Like, you know, theoretically, like, what level of net leverage would you guys be comfortable going to in order to get another big deal done?

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks, Lawson. You know, we don't ever wanna introduce credit risk into our company. What we provide is safe, high-quality exposure to precious metals. You know, 1.5-2x leverage is kind of what we are comfortable with at this point. You know, even with that, we're talking about an addition of almost $2 billion of capacity from a debt perspective. And we currently just don't see a deal where all that needs to be paid immediately. A lot of this is, as Randy said, drip-fed over a long period of time. And again, we're replenishing our coffers rapidly. We're generating $10 billion of cash flow over the next three years. Plenty of capacity to continue to pursue growth.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

I'd just add, Lawson, we would never let that balance sheet limit us in terms of a new opportunity. We never have. We pride ourselves on not issuing new equity, but there's always that if you had the right opportunity to go down that path. We just don't see the need for that, and we don't wanna dilute our existing shareholders. They're the ones that we work for. Our approach is to maximize the leverage side if we have to. There's other sources. We'd never limit our ability to grow. It's just a matter of our preference is to use debt because we find it's the best way to deliver premium returns to our shareholders.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

It's worked very well for us. The last time we issued any significant or did any type of equity financing was, I think, a decade ago, 10 years ago. You know, we have very little interest in doing that again. I know that the use of debt effectively over the last 10 years has dramatically improved the returns for our existing shareholders. We're staying with that plan. You've always got, you know, we've always got other options in the background. We've never been limited. The limiting factor for Wheaton has always been quality assets, finding quality assets to invest into.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Just as a reminder, the interest rate we're paying on that debt is, you know, less than 5% or around 5%. Very, you know, efficient cost of capital. The only covenant we have is a test of 0.6, net debt to total cap. Very flexible in terms of ability to manage that.

[Lawson Winder, Equity Research Analyst at Bank of America Securities]

All right. That's all extremely helpful commentary, guys. I appreciate it. If I could ask one follow-up. There's several new mines that you guys have streams on that are starting up and will be ramping up this year or early next year. There's Phoenix, Kurmuk, Koné are three that I'm thinking of in particular, and there's more in 2027. Just with these new mines, are there any delivery delay considerations that we should be maybe thinking about factoring in in terms of like when, you know, those mines or the operators will realize production versus when Wheaton will ultimately take delivery?

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

I'll add to that question. Obviously, when we structure our transactions, we structure them to ensure that if there are any delays, we are kept whole from an IRR perspective. We have mechanisms in place that are called delay ounces that compensate us for the time value of money in case any of that happens. Now, looking at the half a dozen different projects that are in the pipeline. I'd say the majority of them are pretty close to their timelines or maybe a few months off. One of them is actually a few months well ahead of schedule, and it's one of the bigger contributors. You know, we're excited about the profile here going forward.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Keep in mind, every single one of these projects that are in our five-year profile that give us that 50% growth are funded, are permanent, and half of them are already in construction and the other half are starting here shortly. We're pretty excited about those. Lawson, I think the other part of your question there had to do with the physical deliveries. These are all assets that produce doré. Doré moves very quickly, so they're not producing concentrates. If we have a mine, you know, a copper mine, when it starts up, you're right. There's a pipeline of, you know, getting that production to the smelter, and when a mine starts up, that takes a while to get going.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

All the mines that we have in the next while are actually producing doré, which lends itself to a refinery very fast. Nobody likes having that sitting around. We shouldn't see any issues there. It'll, you know, they'll all push us, you know, as we always give guidance, two-three months of produced but not yet delivered. These assets will all be to the lesser side. We've always found the doré mines are much tighter.

[Lawson Winder, Equity Research Analyst at Bank of America Securities]

Okay, fantastic. Thank you very much, guys.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks, Lawson.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks, Lawson.

[Operator]

Our next question comes from Tanya Jakusconek from Scotiabank. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

Yeah. Good morning, everyone. I think I'm at Scotiabank. Okay. Can I just put in a congratulations for Randy and Haytham on your new positions going forward.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks, Tanya. Coming from you, thank you very much.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Appreciate it.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

I'll start with a very simple modeling question. I just wanna make sure, notice the depreciation has gone up quite a lot. Just wanna make sure that now with the new Antamina coming in as well, should we be thinking about, like, $90 million-$100 million a quarter or thereabout? Would that be reasonable?

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Tanya, the depletion really changes quarter to quarter depending on our asset mix in terms of what's delivering. I would say there wasn't a materially different change in our depletion rates by asset from last year. The depletion rate for Antamina going forward will be combined between the legacy Glencore stream with the new BHP stream. That would be roughly around $27 an ounce.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

Okay. Thank you for that. Then just making sure I understand correctly as we look through the year, you've got the rebuilding of the PB&D you mentioned going through Q1 or the first half of the year. Did I hear that correctly?

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

That's right. We Salobo kind of delivered a big shipment at the end of 2025. That was a little bit unexpected, so we would expect a bit of clawback in Q1. You know, we're sitting at two and a half months right now. I think we're closer to three months by the end of Q1.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

Okay.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

It's pretty typical, Tanya. You know, fourth quarter is always a squeeze on that as companies try to elevate you know, year-end performance, right? It's you know, there's two things that we've learned. One, that it squeezes down in the first or in the fourth quarter, and two is that it bumps back up again in the first quarter. There will be an increase in that.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

Okay. If we think about it just for the year, we should think about it somewhere in that two and half-three, three months. Would that be fair?

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Yeah. I think it's three months. As I mentioned on one of the earlier questions, you know, the more doré production we have, the tighter that gets, the more concentrate production, you know, goes the other way, right? So, you know, the concentrates that we get out of Antamina will push us towards the three-month side. I think, you know, our general guidance has been typically three months. The other comment, and just to reinforce, you know, again, that earlier question is when we have new projects starting on, it does take a little bit longer to get the processes and the flow streams and, you know, the pipelines full, so to speak. That'll probably push us.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

I would say three months is a good target.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

Okay. Yeah, that's all my modeling questions. Maybe just coming back to the transaction market, obviously, you know, great deal with BHP, and so maybe Randy or Haytham, can you talk about, you know, now that you have a relationship with BHP, are there opportunities to do other deals with them on some of their portfolio? The Vicuña District obviously is one that needs to be built, and that's a lot of capital there, but maybe also within their operating portfolio.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Tanya, I would hope there's opportunities to do deals with all of our existing partners. BHP is just our newest partner. You're right, there's a lot of large scale porphyry projects that are gonna be in production probably, or in construction, pardon me, probably in the next three-five years. We are in constant contact with all of our existing partners, including BHP, about trying to figure out ways to continue to help them fund those capital projects.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

Okay. Excluding these big deals that are over $1 billion, and there are a few out there, what else would you be seeing in sort of the smaller category? Have those increased at all, or has everything shifted to these bigger deals?

[Neil Burns, Equity Reseach Analyst at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Maybe I'll take that one, Tanya. It's Neil here. As Randy mentioned earlier, our opportunities pipeline is extremely robust, continuing off the strength we saw in 2025. In fact, keeping the lawyers very busy right now signing NDAs with lots of interesting opportunities that came out of BMO and PDAC. Size-wise, we are majority in the $200 million-$300 million range, but there are a few that are in the $50 million-$100 million range as well.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

Okay. In our last conference call, I think Randy had mentioned there was a big shift to silver. You're seeing a lot more silver. Has that shifted at all, or is it still silver? Or is gold back in the game?

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

I think a lot more silver was probably in reference to Antamina, which is now done, Tanya. I think I would say the majority of new opportunities we're looking at is primarily gold. It's one of the reasons I like silver. It's really tough to find.

[Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank]

Well, congratulations on the deal.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thank you, Tanya.

[Operator]

Our last question comes from Richard Hatch from Berenberg. Please go ahead. Your line is open.

[Richard Hatch, Senior Equity Analyst at Berenberg]

Thanks a lot, operator, and congrats team on record everything. I've got a few questions. First one is just on where we are in the cycle. I completely agree that we're gonna see more of these large porphyry copper deposits funded and built. Kind of strikes me that we're probably a couple of years away from really starting to see those come to market and get funded. Is that right? Are you in the same thinking as me, or are you seeing it differently? That's the first one.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Sure. That's true for sure. There are a number of big projects out there, and those do take a while to get permitted, obviously, and have massive CapExes. I agree with you there that they will take a few years to come about.

[Haytham Hodaly, President at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Richard, I'll point back to a comment that Randy made earlier, a lot of those that funding is construction funding, and it's drip-fed during the overall construction profile. You know, I suspect over the next three years as Vincent pointed out, we're gonna be generating close to $10 billion a year. Sorry, $10 billion in total in free cash flow. We're gonna have a lot of excess cash, and we're gonna be looking to deploy that cash into those type of projects.

[Richard Hatch, Senior Equity Analyst at Berenberg]

Yeah. Makes sense. Good stuff. Please do. Just a few final questions. Just on the Koné payments, when should we be thinking about that last $156 million going out the door?

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

The Koné payments will probably be sometime in 2026. You know, we only have one left of $156 million, so either Q1 or Q2.

[Richard Hatch, Senior Equity Analyst at Berenberg]

Okay. I was curious about this Santo Domingo $30 million refund. What's going on there? Yeah, just perhaps could you just give us what's the deal with that?

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Santo Domingo, obviously, we put up some capital when we first entered into that transaction. Because the project hasn't come online, we've given our partner an opportunity to repay that $30 million and defer making any additional interest payments from this point forward. That's what it was.

[Richard Hatch, Senior Equity Analyst at Berenberg]

Okay. Thank you. My last two. Firstly, just to clarify, you said that Antamina will be slightly lower year-over-year. Is that the right way to think about it?

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Yeah, that's correct.

[Richard Hatch, Senior Equity Analyst at Berenberg]

Okay. The last one is just on your accounts receivable. They've kind of picked up to over $40 million, and I'm just kind of. Is that gonna come down? Is that expected to come down anytime soon? Or should we keep it at that level? I'm just sort of thinking about working cap and how I should be thinking about it. Thanks.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Yeah. We probably expect that to come down a bit. It, it's a mark-to-market thing on our concentrate sales, so a pretty anomalous item, but it should normalize over time.

[Richard Hatch, Senior Equity Analyst at Berenberg]

Lovely. All right. Thanks very much. Congrats on a great quarter and keep going. Cheers.

[Vincent Lau, CFO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks, Richard.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

Thanks, Richard. Thank you everyone who joined us today. Today marks my final quarterly conference call as a CEO, and I'm deeply grateful to close this chapter on such a high note, capping our best year on record with the largest transaction in the history of streaming our royalties. As I transition into the role of chair of the board, I could not be prouder of the company we have built together, our people, our culture, and the value that we have created for all of our stakeholders. Wheaton is entering its next phase of growth from a position of exceptional strength, and I have complete confidence in Haytham's leadership and the broader management team as they continue to build on this strong momentum.

[Randy Smallwood, CEO at Wheaton Precious Metals]

I would like to thank our employees, our mining partners, our shareholders, and the communities where we operate for their unwavering support over the years. Serving our employees, our shareholders, and in fact, all of our stakeholders, as Wheaton's Chief Executive Officer, has been the greatest privilege of my professional career. As I sign off, I do so with great pride, gratitude, and immense optimism, if not excitement for Wheaton's future, and I thank all of you for joining me on this incredible journey. Thank you.

[Operator]

This concludes this conference call for today. Thank you for participating. Please disconnect your lines.

Participants

Executives

• Emma Murray, VP of Investor Relations
• Haytham Hodaly, President
• Neil Burns, Equity Reseach Analyst
• Randy Smallwood, CEO
• Vincent Lau, CFO
• Wes Carson, VP of Mining Operations

Analysts

• Daniel Major, Metals and Mining Analyst at UBS
• Fahad Tariq, SVP and Equity Research at Jefferies
• Lawson Winder, Equity Research Analyst at Bank of America Securities
• Richard Hatch, Senior Equity Analyst at Berenberg
• Tanya Jakusconek, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Scotiabank