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GROY, Gold Royalty Corp.

Gold & Precious Metals capital-intensive Unprofitable

Gold Royalty is a precious metals focused royalty and streaming company offering creative financing solutions to the metals and mining industry.

Operators continued to advance key assets in 2025, including continued production growth at the Vare Mine, underground ramp and shaft development on schedule at the Odyssey Mine (Canadian Malartic Capex) and commercial production milestones at Borborema.

The acquired royalty consists of a 1.5% NSR on the first 1.5 million ounces of payable gold production and 1.0% until 2.0 Moz of payable gold is produced, thereafter being extinguished.

Latest annual: FY2025 20-F
GROY · Gold Royalty Corp.
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$16M
+54.5% YoY · 200% 4-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $16M 5-yr avg $7M
Operating margin 9.9% 5-yr avg −1628.6%
ROIC 0% 5-yr avg −3%
Owner-earnings margin 39% 5-yr avg −3357%
Free cash flow margin 39% 5-yr avg −3357%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

Situation
Unprofitable. No meaningful revenue yet; the record is the cash on hand against the burn.
What moves the needle
Operating margin has run around −544% through the cycle on a 93% gross margin, the operating line in the red even at its best — so the lever is whether the spending below the gross line can come down enough to clear a profit: revenue growth against the cost curve, and the cash runway until it does. Read this kind of business on the commodity price and the cost position. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on concentrated dependence, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Return on capital has rarely cleared the cost of capital (median −3%, above 15% in 0 of 5 years). Owner earnings, the cash-based check, have been thin too. This is price-taker territory, where the balance sheet and the cycle matter more than any multiple; the rest is in the 10-K.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2021–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMDec 2025
Income statement
$192K$4M$3M$10M$16M$16MRevenueRevenue
($13M)($21M)($31M)($4M)$2M$2MOperating incomeOp. inc.
n/m−544.0%n/m−40.2%9.9%9.9%Operating marginOp. mgn
($15M)($17M)($27M)($3M)($4M)($4M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
($12M)($19M)($7M)$3M$6M$6MOperating cash flowOp. cash
$5K$72K$70K$79K$78K$78KDepreciationDeprec.
$3M($2M)$20M$6M$10M$10MWorking capital & otherWC & other
$2K$28K$28KCapexCapex
1.0%0.7%0.2%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
($12M)($19M)$6MOwner earningsOwner earn.
n/m−489.1%39.3%Owner earnings marginOE mgn
($12M)($19M)$6MFree cash flowFCF
n/m−489.1%39.3%Free cash flow marginFCF mgn
$4M$3M$3MDividends paidDiv. paid
-5%-3%-5%-1%0%0%ROICROIC
-7%-3%-5%-1%-1%-1%Return on equityROE
−4%−6%−1%Retained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$11M$13M$2M$2M$14M$14MCash & investmentsCash+inv
$412K$1M$931K$2M$3M$3MReceivablesReceiv.
$7M$7M$4M$4M$5M$5MAccounts payablePayables
($7M)($6M)($3M)($2M)($2M)($2M)Operating working capitalOper. WC
$13M$17M$6M$6M$23M$23MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$7M$7M$4M$4M$5M$5MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
1.9×2.4×1.4×1.5×4.9×4.9×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$279M$689M$691M$738M$823M$823MTotal assetsAssets
($11M)($13M)($2M)($2M)($14M)($14M)Net debt / (cash)Net debt
-33.9×-16.8×-0.5×0.2×0.2×Interest coverageInt. cov.
$225M$534M$521M$558M$699M$699MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
33.6M128M145M160M175M175MShares out (diluted)Shares
$0.01$0.03$0.02$0.06$0.09$0.09Revenue / shareRev/sh
$-0.45$-0.14$-0.18$-0.02$-0.02$-0.02EPS (diluted)EPS
$-0.36$-0.15$0.04Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$-0.36$-0.15$0.04Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.03$0.02$0.01Dividends / shareDiv/sh
$0.00$0.00$0.00Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$6.71$4.16$3.60$3.50$4.00$4.00Book value / shareBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×3.82 into 2022 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
4-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+98.7%/yr+98.7%/yr (4-yr)
Dividends / share−42.9%/yr (1-yr)−42.9%/yr (1-yr)
Capital spending / share+266.3%/yr (1-yr)+266.3%/yr (1-yr)
Book value / share−12.2%/yr−12.2%/yr (4-yr)

The record, charted

FY2021–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
175Mpeak FY2025
ROIC
0%low FY2023

Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.

In fiscal 2022 the business reported a $17M loss but ($19M) of owner earnings: $2M less than the profit line, taken out by capital spending and the timing of cash.

FY2022FY2021
Reported net income($17M)($15M)
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$72K+$5K
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items−$2M+$3M
Cash from operations($19M)($12M)
Capital expenditurecash put back in to keep running and to grow−$28K−$2K
Owner earnings($19M)($12M)
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue-489%-6225%

Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the capital it must spend to hold its position .

Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.

III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 20-F · source on SEC EDGAR →

Will it survive?

  • Does not cover its interest
    Operating income $2M ÷ interest expense $8M
    What this means

    A full year of operating profit didn't cover the interest bill. This is the zombie zone: the business depends on refinancing, asset sales, or forbearance to service its debt.

  • Net cash, debt-free
    Cash $12M + ST investments $2M − debt $0
    What this means

    Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $14M, on net the company owes nothing, and can act from strength when others can't. Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.

  • Not enough data
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

Is it a good business?

  • Not enough data
    Industry peers: median -15%
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • High
    Owner earnings $6M = operating cash $6M − maintenance capex $28K
    Industry peers: median -105%
    What this means

    What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's 39% of revenue this year.

  • Loss, but cash-generative
    Net income ($4M) · cash from operations $6M
    What this means

    The company reported a net loss, so a conversion ratio isn't meaningful. What matters then is whether operations still threw off cash, here, they did.

How is the cash used?

  • Returns about half
    Dividends + buybacks $3M ÷ Owner Earnings $6M
    What this means

    Of $6M Owner Earnings, $3M (42%) went back to shareholders, $3M dividends, $0 buybacks. Returning most of it is the mark of a mature business with little left to reinvest at a high return; reinvesting most could mean a long runway, or empire-building. The split doesn't say which; the return earned on it (see ROIC) does.

  • Investing or harvesting? 0.36×
    Harvesting
    Capex $28K ÷ depreciation $78K
    What this means

    Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.

Graham’s defensive tests · 1 of 4 met

Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.

  • Adequate size Miss
    Revenue ≥ $2B · $16M
    What this means

    Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.

  • Strong liquidity Pass
    Current ratio ≥ 2× · 4.88×
    What this means

    Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.

  • Earnings stability Miss
    A profit every year (5-yr record) · 5 loss years
    What this means

    Graham wanted earnings in each of the past ten years, the stability a defensive owner leans on.

  • Dividend record Miss
    Uninterrupted dividends · 2 of 5 yrs
    What this means

    An unbroken dividend was Graham's mark of durability. He wanted twenty years; the filings show about ten, and a single suspension breaks the streak. Non-payers, many fine modern compounders, fall outside his defensive net by design.

  • Moderate price
    P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
    What this means

    Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $-0.05/share (latest year $-0.02), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $3.11/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.

Durability & moat, 2021–2025

Whether the record’s returns held, and what the capital reinvested earned.

  • Profitable years 0 of 5
    What this means

    Lost money in 5 year(s), look at what happened there before trusting the average.

  • Operating margin −3548% → −15% (2-yr avg ends)

    In the filing’s words The margin widened even though the filing names price competition — the gain came from volume or cost, not pricing power. Read where.

    What this means

    Through the cycle the operating margin widened — about −3548% early to −15% lately, median −544% — pricing power intact or improving.

  • Worst year 2021 · −6552.6% op. margin
    What this means

    Operations went underwater in 2021, understand why before trusting the good years.

  • Dividend record paid
    What this means

    Paid a dividend in 2 of the years on record.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.

Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Current Position

as of fiscal year-end, Dec 31, 2025

Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.

Current assets$23M
  • Cash & short-term investments$14M
  • Receivables$3M
  • Other current assets$6M
Current liabilities$5M
  • Accounts payable$5M
Current ratio4.88×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratioinventory untagged this quarter, so withheld rather than shown equal to the current ratio
Cash ratio3.02×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$18Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$699Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value($101M)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities

From the company's latest filing.

Peers, Gold & Precious Metals

The same industry, side by side on owner economics. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.

CompanyRevenueGross marginOp. marginROICOwner earn. margin
MUXMcEwen Inc.$198M77%-43.0%-9%-7%
IAUXi-80 Gold Corp.$95M-177.0%-15%-157%
UECUranium Energy Corp.$67M31%-103.9%-12%-168%
EUenCore Energy Corp.$43M17%-168.1%-16%-106%
IDRIdaho Strategic Resources Inc.$42M6%-2.6%-9%-8%
URGUr Energy Inc Common Shares (Canada)$27M-9%-167.4%-32%-105%
GROYGold Royalty Corp.$16M-544.0%-3%39%
ALOYREalloys Inc.$2M45%-133.6%-48%-71%
Group median-150.5%-14%-88%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Enter the home-market price, not the US ADR quote. Gold Royalty Corp. reports in USD, and every figure here (owner earnings, book value, the share count) is on that ordinary-share basis. Enter the price on the same basis: the local-exchange quote per ordinary share. A US ADR price in dollars bundles the ADR-to-ordinary ratio, so it will not reconcile with these figures and would throw the multiple off.

Type today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what Gold Royalty Corp. has delivered.

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Base

The assumptions

9.0% = the 4.55% 10-year Treasury (Jul 15, 2026) + 4.45 points of equity premium. The rate you require is yours to set.

Enter a price above to run it.

Implied by the price
Owner-earnings growth, delivered
Owner-earnings yield
P/E (3-yr earnings ’23–’25)
P/B
Graham’s price gate

Graham capped the multiple at 15×; Buffett and Munger let that rule go: a wonderful business can deserve 50× if the thesis holds. The gate marks the bargain-hunter's floor.

Against a high-grade bond: Graham’s yardstick bond yield%

Prefilled with the 10-year Treasury (4.55%, as of Jul 15, 2026). Edit it for today’s exact figure, or a AAA corporate yield.

Graham measured a stock against the bond you could own instead, the heart of his margin of safety. Enter a price above to weigh the owner-earnings yield against this bond.

Owner earnings $6M on 225M shares outstanding, per the 20-F cover, as of 2025-12-31; net cash $14M. The base is the latest year by default; Normalize values it on the through-cycle median owner-earnings margin (to avoid paying on a peak year). Net of stock comp treats option pay as the expense it is. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Gold Royalty Corp. (GROY), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/GROY, data as of 2026-07-09.

Manual order: ← GRFS its page in the Manual GRRR →

Industry order: ← GFI the Gold & Precious Metals chapter HL →