Gatos Silver Reports Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results and Increases 2023 Production Guidance
- Gatos Silver increased its 2023 full-year silver and silver equivalent production guidance by 16% and 8% respectively.
- The company received a cash distribution of $24.5 million in October.
- Gatos Silver remains debt-free with a cash balance of $57.7 million.
- The conversion drilling of the South-East Deeps inferred resource is progressing well.
- Q3 2023 results showed a decrease in revenue, an increase in cost of sales, and an increase in net income compared to Q3 2022.
- None.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gatos Silver, Inc. (NYSE/TSX: GATO) (“Gatos Silver” or the “Company”) today announced its third quarter 2023 financial and operating results. The Company will host an investor and analyst call on November 7, 2023, details of which are provided below.
The Company has a
Dale Andres, CEO of Gatos Silver, said: “The LGJV continues to generate robust cash flows with the CLG mine consistently producing high margin silver ounces. As a result of continued good operational performance in the first month of the fourth quarter along with recent optimization of the mine plan, we are increasing our 2023 full year silver and silver equivalent production guidance by
Summary
LGJV Q3 2023 results compared to Q3 2022 (
- Revenue of
$67.0 million , down9% from$73.9 million - Cost of sales
$31.4 million , up10% from$28.6 million - Net income
$15.1 million , up16% from$13.0 million - EBITDA
$31.2 million , down21% from$39.7 million 1 - Cash flow from operations of
$29.4 million , down24% from$38.5 million - Sustaining capital
$9.1 million , down47% from$17.1 million - Free cash flow
$14.3 million , down3% from$14.7 million 1 - Silver production 2.2 million ounces, down
19% from 2.7 million - Silver equivalent production of 3.5 million ounces, down
19% from 4.3 million - Co-product all-in sustaining costs (“AISC”) of
$17.64 per ounce of payable silver, up34% from$13.13 1 - By-product AISC of
$14.71 per ounce of payable silver, up47% from$10.04 1
1 See Non-GAAP Financial Measures below.
Gatos Silver Q3 2023 results compared to Q3 2022:
Net income was
Cash flow used by operations was
Subsequent to the quarter end, on October 30, 2023, the Company received a
Financial and Operating Results
Below is select operational and financial information for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022. For a detailed discussion of the three and nine months financial and operating results refer to the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2023 filed on November 6, 2023 on both the EDGAR and SEDAR+ systems and posted on the Company’s website at https://gatossilver.com.
Los Gatos Joint Venture
| LGJV | Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | ||||||||
| Selected Financial Information | September 30, | September 30, | ||||||||
| (in millions, except where otherwise stated) | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
| Revenue | $ | 67.0 | $ | 73.9 | $ | 195.2 | $ | 218.7 | ||
| Cost of sales | $ | 31.4 | $ | 28.6 | $ | 83.3 | $ | 81.6 | ||
| Royalties | $ | 0.3 | $ | 0.3 | $ | 1.0 | $ | 2.7 | ||
| Exploration | $ | 1.0 | $ | 1.9 | $ | 2.1 | $ | 6.2 | ||
| General and administrative | $ | 4.4 | $ | 3.4 | $ | 12.7 | $ | 9.8 | ||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortization | $ | 16.7 | $ | 19.9 | $ | 59.6 | $ | 52.3 | ||
| Other (income) expense | $ | (0.9 | ) | $ | 0.1 | $ | (1.8 | ) | $ | 1.1 |
| Income tax (recovery) expense | $ | (0.9 | ) | $ | 6.7 | $ | 9.8 | $ | 22.5 | |
| Net income | $ | 15.0 | $ | 13.0 | $ | 28.5 | $ | 42.4 | ||
| Sustaining capital | $ | 9.1 | $ | 17.1 | $ | 29.9 | $ | 57.0 | ||
| Resource development drilling expenditures | $ | 3.5 | $ | — | $ | 10.5 | $ | — | ||
| EBITDA1 | $ | 31.2 | $ | 39.7 | $ | 98.4 | $ | 117.6 | ||
| Cash provided by operating activities | $ | 29.4 | $ | 38.5 | $ | 103.8 | $ | 120.0 | ||
| Free cash flow1 | $ | 14.3 | $ | 14.7 | $ | 62.6 | $ | 58.1 | ||
| Operating Results (CLG | ||||||||||
| Tonnes milled (dmt) | 268,312 | 263,331 | 794,082 | 709,666 | ||||||
| Tonnes milled per day (dmt) | 2,916 | 2,862 | 2,909 | 2,600 | ||||||
| Average Grades | ||||||||||
| Silver grade (g/t) | 285 | 356 | 293 | 361 | ||||||
| Zinc grade (%) | 3.82 | 4.70 | 3.92 | 4.61 | ||||||
| Lead grade (%) | 1.84 | 2.38 | 1.85 | 2.45 | ||||||
| Gold grade (g/t) | 0.30 | 0.34 | 0.29 | 0.34 | ||||||
| Production - Contained Metal | ||||||||||
| Silver ounces (millions) | 2.22 | 2.70 | 6.65 | 7.40 | ||||||
| Zinc pounds – in zinc conc. (millions) | 13.8 | 17.8 | 42.7 | 47.1 | ||||||
| Lead pounds – in lead conc. (millions) | 9.5 | 12.2 | 28.7 | 34.2 | ||||||
| Gold ounces – in lead conc. (thousands) | 1.28 | 1.40 | 3.86 | 3.98 | ||||||
| Silver equivalent ounces (millions)2 | 3.46 | 4.29 | 10.45 | 11.68 | ||||||
| Co-product cash cost per ounce of payable silver equivalent1 | $ | 14.42 | $ | 9.10 | $ | 12.43 | $ | 9.32 | ||
| By-product cash cost per ounce of payable silver1 | $ | 10.04 | $ | 3.28 | $ | 6.42 | $ | 1.13 | ||
| Co-product AISC per ounce of payable silver equivalent1 | $ | 17.64 | $ | 13.13 | $ | 15.81 | $ | 14.15 | ||
| By-product AISC per ounce of payable silver1 | $ | 14.71 | $ | 10.04 | $ | 11.40 | $ | 9.49 | ||
1 See Non-GAAP Financial Measures below
2 Total may not add due to rounding
3 Silver equivalent production is calculated using prices of
Gatos Silver, Inc.
| Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | |||||||||
| Select Financial information | September 30, | September 30, | ||||||||
| (in millions, except where otherwise stated) | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
| Exploration | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 0.1 | ||
| General and Administrative | 7.5 | 5.9 | 19.2 | 17.0 | ||||||
| Amortization | — | — | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| Total expenses | 7.5 | 6.0 | 19.3 | 17.2 | ||||||
| Equity income in affiliates | 9.4 | 8.9 | 15.9 | 24.5 | ||||||
| Other income, net | 1.3 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 3.3 | ||||||
| Other income | 10.8 | 10.0 | 19.8 | 27.9 | ||||||
| Income tax expense | — | 0.5 | — | 0.9 | ||||||
| Net income | 3.3 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 9.8 | ||||||
| Net income per share (basic and diluted) | $ | 0.05 | $ | 0.05 | $ | 0.01 | $ | 0.14 | ||
| EBITDA1 | $ | 3.6 | $ | 4.2 | $ | 1.3 | $ | 11.2 | ||
| Cash (used) provided by operating activities | $ | (1.7 | ) | $ | 8.0 | $ | (9.5 | ) | $ | 8.7 |
| Free cash flow1 | $ | 33.3 | $ | 8.0 | $ | 25.5 | $ | 8.7 | ||
1 See Non-GAAP Financial Measures below
2023 Guidance Update (CLG
Gatos Silver is increasing its full year 2023 guidance for silver production and silver equivalent production as a result of good operational performance in the first month of the fourth quarter and recent optimization of the mine plan.
Silver production is now expected to be between 8.8 and 9.3 million ounces compared with original guidance of 7.4 to 8.2 million ounces. This represents an increase of
Based on the revised mine plan sequencing at CLG, the Company expects full year zinc and gold production to be near the low end of the original guidance range of 57 to 63 million pounds and 5.4 to 6.2 thousand ounces respectively. Full year lead production is expected to be within the upper half of the original guidance range of 36 to 40 million pounds.
The Company expects full year co-product and by-product AISCs to remain in the lower half of our original guidance ranges of
The Company remains on track to achieve sustaining capital expenditure guidance at CLG of
Financial Results Webcast and Conference Call
Investors and analysts are invited to attend the financial results webcast and conference call as follows:
Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET
Listen-Only Webcast: https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/100781758
Direct Event Registration Link (for Analysts only): https://conferencingportals.com/event/tFOAtdfN
Dial-In Number: 1 (888) 330-2398 or 1 (240) 789-2709; press # to access an operator
An archive of the webcast will be available on the Company’s website at: https://gatossilver.com within 24 hours.
About Gatos Silver
Gatos Silver is a silver dominant exploration, development and production company that discovered a new silver and zinc-rich mineral district in southern Chihuahua State, Mexico. As a
Qualified Person
Scientific and technical disclosure in this press release was approved by Anthony (Tony) Scott, P.Geo., Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Technical Services of Gatos Silver who is a “Qualified Person” as defined in S-K 1300 and NI 43-101.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We use certain measures that are not defined by GAAP to evaluate various aspects of our business. These non-GAAP financial measures are intended to provide additional information only and do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by GAAP and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. The measures are not necessarily indicative of operating profit or cash flow from operations as determined under GAAP.
Cash Costs and All-In Sustaining Costs
Cash costs and all-in sustaining costs (“AISC”) are non-GAAP measures. AISC was calculated based on guidance provided by the World Gold Council (“WGC”). WGC is not a regulatory industry organization and does not have the authority to develop accounting standards for disclosure requirements. Other mining companies may calculate AISC differently as a result of differences in underlying accounting principles and policies applied, as well as definitional differences of sustaining versus expansionary (i.e. non-sustaining) capital expenditures based upon each company’s internal policies. Current GAAP measures used in the mining industry, such as cost of sales, do not capture all of the expenditures incurred to discover, develop and sustain production. Therefore, we believe that cash costs and AISC are non-GAAP measures that provide additional information to management, investors and analysts that aid in the understanding of the economics of the Company’s operations and performance compared to other producers and provides investors visibility by better defining the total costs associated with production.
Cash costs include all direct and indirect operating cash costs related directly to the physical activities of producing metals, including mining, processing and other plant costs, treatment and refining costs, general and administrative costs, royalties and mining production taxes. AISC includes total production cash costs incurred at the LGJV’s mining operations plus sustaining capital expenditures. The Company believes this measure represents the total sustainable costs of producing silver from current operations and provides additional information of the LGJV’s operational performance and ability to generate cash flows. As the measure seeks to reflect the full cost of silver production from current operations, new project and expansionary capital at current operations are not included. Certain cash expenditures such as exploration, new project spending, tax payments, dividends, and financing costs are not included.
EBITDA
Management uses earnings before interest, income tax, depreciation, depletion and amortization (“EBITDA”) to evaluate the Company’s operating performance, to plan and forecast its operations, and assess leverage levels and liquidity measures. The Company believes the use of EBITDA reflects the underlying operating performance of our core mining business and allows investors and analysts to compare results of the Company to similar results of other mining companies. EBITDA do not represent, and should not be considered an alternative to, net income or cash flow from operations as determined under GAAP.
Free Cash Flow
Management uses Free Cash Flow as a non-GAAP measure to analyze cash flows generated from operations. Free Cash Flow is Cash Provided By (Used In) Operating Activities less Cash flow from Investing Activities as presented on the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The Company believes Free Cash Flow is also useful as one of the bases for comparing the Company’s performance with its competitors. Although Free Cash Flow and similar measures are frequently used as measures of cash flows generated from operations by other companies, the Company’s calculation of Free Cash Flow is not necessarily comparable to such other similarly titled captions of other companies.
Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures
The table below presents a reconciliation between the most comparable GAAP measure of the LGJV’s expenses to the non-GAAP measures of (i) cash costs, (ii) cash costs, net of by-product credits, (iii) co-product AISC and (iv) by-product AISC for our operations.
| CLG | Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | ||||||||||
| Financial | September 30, | September 30, | ||||||||||
| (in thousands, except where otherwise stated) | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||
| Expenses | $ | 53,809 | $ | 54,207 | $ | 158,648 | $ | 152,710 | ||||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortization | (16,712 | ) | (19,943 | ) | (59,558 | ) | (52,340 | ) | ||||
| Exploration1 | (998 | ) | (1,881 | ) | (2,118 | ) | (6,235 | ) | ||||
| Treatment and refining costs2 | 4,793 | 6,230 | 12,865 | 16,074 | ||||||||
| Cash costs | $ | 40,892 | $ | 38,613 | $ | 109,837 | $ | 110,209 | ||||
| Sustaining capital3 | 9,128 | 17,086 | 29,870 | 57,036 | ||||||||
| Co-product all-in sustaining costs | 50,020 | 55,699 | 139,707 | 167,245 | ||||||||
| By-product credits4 | (21,246 | ) | (30,304 | ) | (71,407 | ) | (102,539 | ) | ||||
| All-in sustaining costs, net of by-product credits | $ | 28,774 | $ | 25,395 | $ | 68,300 | $ | 64,706 | ||||
| Cash costs, net of by-product credits | $ | 19,646 | $ | 8,309 | $ | 38,430 | $ | 7,670 | ||||
| Payable ounces of silver equivalent5 | 2,835 | 4,243 | 8,837 | 11,822 | ||||||||
| Co-product cash cost per ounce of payable silver equivalent | $ | 14.42 | $ | 9.10 | $ | 12.43 | $ | 9.32 | ||||
| Co-product AISC per ounce of payable silver equivalent | $ | 17.64 | $ | 13.13 | $ | 15.81 | $ | 14.15 | ||||
| Payable ounces of silver | 1,956 | 2,529 | 5,989 | 6,815 | ||||||||
| By-product cash cost per ounce of payable silver | $ | 10.04 | $ | 3.28 | $ | 6.42 | $ | 1.13 | ||||
| By-product AISC per ounce of payable silver | $ | 14.71 | $ | 10.04 | $ | 11.40 | $ | 9.49 | ||||
1 Exploration costs are not related to current operations.
2 Represent reductions on customer invoices and included in Sales of the LGJV combined statement of income (loss).
3 Sustaining capital excludes resource development drilling costs related to resource development drilling of the South- East Deeps zone.
4 By-product credits reflect realized metal prices of zinc, lead and gold for the applicable period, which includes any final settlement adjustments from prior periods.
5 Payable silver equivalents utilize the average realized prices during the nine months ended September 30, 2023, of
The table below reconciles EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure to Net Income for the Company:
| | Three Months Ended | Nine months ended | ||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | |||||||
| (in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||
| Net income | $ | 3,288 | $ | 3,504 | $ | 530 | $ | 9,785 |
| Interest expense | 332 | 142 | 679 | 368 | ||||
| Income tax expense | — | 525 | — | 865 | ||||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortization | 3 | 44 | 74 | 132 | ||||
| EBITDA | $ | 3,623 | $ | 4,215 | $ | 1,283 | $ | 11,150 |
The table below reconciles EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, to the Net Income of the LGJV:
| | Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | |||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||
| Net income | $ | 15,053 | $ | 12,961 | $ | 28,500 | $ | 42,394 | |
| Interest expense | 343 | 103 | 484 | 368 | |||||
| Income tax (recovery) expense | (884 | ) | 6,702 | 9,814 | 22,488 | ||||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortization | 16,712 | 19,943 | 59,558 | 52,340 | |||||
| EBITDA | $ | 31,224 | $ | 39,709 | $ | 98,356 | $ | 117,590 | |
The following table sets forth a reconciliation of Free Cash Flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, to cash provided by (used by) operating activities for the Company, which the Company believes to be the GAAP financial measure most directly comparable to Free Cash Flow.
| | Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | |||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | ||||||||||
| (in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
| Net cash (used) provided by operating activities | $ | (1,670 | ) | $ | 7,992 | $ | (9,535 | ) | $ | 8,680 | |
| Net cash provided (used) by investing activities | 35,000 | — | 35,000 | (27 | ) | ||||||
| Free cash flow | $ | 33,330 | $ | 7,992 | $ | 25,465 | $ | 8,653 | |||
The following table sets forth a reconciliation of Free Cash Flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, to cash flows provided by operating activities for the LGJV.
| | Three Months Ended | Nine Months Ended | ||||||||||
| September 30, | September 30, | |||||||||||
| (in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 29,424 | $ | 38,477 | $ | 103,789 | $ | 120,000 | ||||
| Net cash used by investing activities | (15,168 | ) | (23,754 | ) | (41,160 | ) | (61,903 | ) | ||||
| Free cash flow | $ | 14,256 | $ | 14,723 | $ | 62,629 | $ | 58,097 | ||||
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that constitute “forward looking information” and “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of U.S. and Canadian securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release, including statements regarding the progress of conversion drilling and exploration, and production and cost guidance for 2023 are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, and such other risks and uncertainties described in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities commissions. Gatos Silver expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which such statements are based unless required to do so by applicable law. No assurance can be given that such future results will be achieved. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
Investors and Media Contact
André van Niekerk
Chief Financial Officer
investors@gatossilver.com
(604) 424 0984
FAQ
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