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Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-27): Designation Watch · Gem Score +5 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality 79 · Value -44 · Sentiment 62 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $115.42 vs $134.21 at analysis
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Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.
WPM NYSEWheaton Precious Metals Corp. is a precious metals streaming company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Its business model provides financing to mining partners in exchange for the right to purchase a portion of future production from operating mines and development projects. The company focuses on gold, silver, palladium, platinum, and cobalt streams across North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. This structure gives Wheaton Precious Metals exposure to a diversified portfolio of long-life mineral assets without directly operating mines. The company’s current operations emphasize sourcing and selling precious metals to industrial users, fabricators, and market participants, making it an important link between mining output and global metals demand. Through its streaming agreements, Wheaton Precious Metals plays a specialized role in the resource sector by connecting mine production with metal supply markets.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
This company does not file structured financial statements with the U.S. SEC, so quarterly figures aren't available from our filings-based data engine. Annual figures shown here come from the sources that do cover it.
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 3.24
Total Equity: $8.69B
Shares: 454,685,000
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.15B
EBITDA: N/A
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.15B
Revenue: $2.31B
Revenue: $2.31B
Revenue: $2.31B
Total Equity: $8.69B
Tax Rate: 13.3%
Equity: $8.69B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.15B
Current Liabilities: $154.69M
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $0.00
Total Equity: $8.69B
Shares: 454,685,000
Shares: 454,685,000
CapEx: $0.00
Shares: 454,685,000
Stock Price: $134.21
Net Income: $1.47B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 17, 2026 12:19am (52d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1.2B | $1.1B | $1.0B | $1.3B | $2.3B |
| Cost of Revenue | $542.7M | $499.6M | $442.6M | $482.1M | $643.0M |
| Gross Profit | $658.9M | $565.5M | $573.4M | $802.6M | $1.7B |
| Operating Expenses | -$95.7M | $53.6M | $68.2M | $181.8M | $90.0M |
| Operating Income | $754.7M | $511.9M | $505.3M | $620.8M | $1.6B |
| Net Income | $754.9M | $669.1M | $537.6M | $529.1M | $1.5B |
| EBITDA | — | — | — | — | — |
| EPS | $1.68 | $1.48 | $1.19 | $1.17 | $3.24 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $1.67 | $1.48 | $1.19 | $1.17 | $3.24 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 17, 2026 12:19am (52d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $226.0M | $696.1M | $546.5M | $818.2M | $1.2B |
| Total Current Assets | $249.7M | $720.1M | $567.4M | $828.1M | $1.2B |
| Total Assets | $6.3B | $6.8B | $7.0B | $7.4B | $9.1B |
| Current Liabilities | $29.7M | $30.7M | $26.1M | $29.5M | $154.7M |
| Long-Term Debt | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total Liabilities | $46.0M | $42.2M | $45.7M | $165.1M | $435.3M |
| Total Equity | $6.3B | $6.7B | $7.0B | $7.3B | $8.7B |
| Retained Earnings | $2.5B | $2.9B | $3.2B | $3.5B | $4.7B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 17, 2026 12:19am (52d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $845.1M | $743.4M | $750.8M | $1.0B | $1.9B |
| Capital Expenditure | — | — | — | — | — |
| Free Cash Flow | — | — | — | — | — |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | -$195.0M | $0 | — | — | — |
| Dividends Paid | -$218.1M | -$237.1M | -$265.1M | -$279.1M | -$296.4M |
| Stock Buybacks | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Change in Cash | $33.4M | $470.0M | -$149.6M | $271.6M | $335.4M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 17, 2026 12:19am (52d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Revenue Growth | -11.4% | -4.6% | +26.4% | +80.2% |
| Gross Profit Growth | -14.2% | +1.4% | +40.0% | +108.3% |
| Operating Income Growth | -32.2% | -1.3% | +22.9% | +154.8% |
| Net Income Growth | -11.4% | -19.6% | -1.6% | +178.1% |
| EBITDA Growth | — | — | — | — |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:46pm (57d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
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| 2026-05-27 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-31 | $0.20 | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-28 | $0.17 | — | — | — |
| 2025-04-01 | $0.17 | — | — | — |
| 2024-11-21 | $0.16 | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-21 | $0.16 | — | — | — |
| 2024-05-29 | $0.16 | — | — | — |
| 2024-04-02 | $0.16 | — | — | — |
| 2023-11-27 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-24 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2023-05-18 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2023-03-23 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2022-11-18 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2022-08-25 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2022-05-19 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-23 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2021-11-19 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2021-08-26 | $0.15 | — | — | — |
| 2021-05-20 | $0.14 | — | — | — |
| 2021-03-25 | $0.13 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — upside vs downside from this company's own quarters
Computed 2026-08-24 02:25Narrative Economics
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Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-17 16:26The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
The raw numbers tell a specific story that the models are partially misreading. WPM printed $2.31B revenue in 2025 vs $1.28B in 2024 — an 80% YoY jump — with net income nearly tripling from $529M to $1.47B. But this isn't a "50.9% revenue CAGR" business in any durable sense; the 2021-2023 window showed revenue *declining* from $1.20B to $1.02B. The 2024-2025 inflection is a gold price move (spot moved from ~$2,000 to ~$2,700+) layered on top of Salobo III and Blackwater ramps. Extrapolating 65% earnings CAGR into a DCF is malpractice on a royalty/streaming company whose realized price is a commodity you can chart. The momentum module is mechanically correct and analytically dangerous.
That said, the underlying model quality is genuine and the market forces read undersells it. Zero debt, $1.15B cash, 68% operating margin, 72% gross margin, 16% ROE without leverage, $1.90B operating cash flow — this is the cleanest financial profile in the entire mining complex. Streaming agreements are effectively perpetual call options on partner-operated mines with capex borne by someone else. That deserves a premium multiple versus Newmont or Barrick. The question is *how much* premium. At $134 and 41x trailing earnings, you're paying a Visa multiple for a company whose top line is levered to a commodity that has already run 35% in 18 months. Normalize gold to $2,200 (still historically elevated) and 2025 earnings power probably compresses toward $1.05-1.15B, putting normalized P/E closer to 55-60x. That is not fair value; that is priced for a permanent gold regime shift.
The synthesis says "fair value" at $132.75 vs $134.21 and calls the methods mixed — I'd push harder toward the Thesis Evaluation's -10 read and Market Forces' concern about extrapolated inflection. The pre-flight labeling this "dividend-income" is wrong; a 0.54% yield with 20% payout ratio is not an income vehicle, it's a gold-price beta play with optionality on new stream deployment. The Narrative module calling this "anchored" is defensible only if you accept 2025 earnings as run-rate, which requires believing gold holds $2,600+ indefinitely. The rule-based classifier tagging this "high-growth profitable" is a category error — royalty companies aren't SaaS; growth is exogenous to management effort beyond deal sourcing. Three models are essentially double-counting the gold price tailwind as if it were a business quality attribute.
A careful contrarian bull would counter: central bank gold buying has been structural since 2022 (China, Poland, India, Turkey), real rates may stay pinned by fiscal dominance, and WPM's incremental capital deployment into new streams at current gold prices locks in favorable economics for a decade. Even so, the bull case gets you to *justifying* $134, not to compelling upside — best-case fair value is maybe $145-155 with $2,700 gold sustained and successful $1B redeployment. The asymmetry is unfavorable: modest gold weakness to $2,200 implies fair value near $85-95; gold strength to $3,000 implies maybe $170. Data gaps worth flagging: no quarterly revenue trajectory provided (so I can't see if Q4 2025 decelerated), no debt line shown (confirmed zero via D/E=0), no FCF or capex breakdown, and the 2025 annual is unusually fresh — verify it's not a preliminary figure. Insider activity isn't disclosed here, which for a streaming company matters less than for an operator but still leaves a blind spot on deal-pipeline confidence.
Net: I dissent partially from the "fair value" synthesis. This is a high-quality business trading at a valuation that already prices in continued gold strength and successful capital redeployment with no operational hiccups at partner mines (Salobo, Antamina, Peñasquito concentration is real). The synthesis's own DCF fair value of $113.85 pre-signal-adjustment is probably closer to right than the $132.75 adjusted number — the "signal adjustment" is what happens when momentum overrides valuation discipline on a commodity-linked name. Fair value $105-115 with gold at $2,400; current price embeds gold closer to $2,700 as steady state. Not a short — the balance sheet and business quality make that reckless — but not a place to add. Trim into strength, wait for a gold pullback or a mine-specific disappointment to buy $105 or lower.
GPT Reading
Wheaton is a wonderful business and, at $134, still looks too expensive. The raw numbers tell a very specific story: 2025 was a step-change year, with revenue jumping to $2.31B from $1.28B and net income to $1.47B from $529M, taking net margin to an extraordinary 63.6%. But when I line that up against the preceding four years, I do not see a durable high-growth operating company so much as a commodity-levered royalty/streaming vehicle whose earnings power can swing sharply with metal prices and delivery volumes. Revenue was only $1.20B in 2021, then $1.07B in 2022, $1.02B in 2023, before rebounding in 2024 and exploding in 2025. That is not a smooth compounding pattern deserving a software-like multiple; it is a cyclical earnings profile wrapped in a capital-light structure. The market is paying 41.5x earnings, 26.4x sales, and 7.0x book for a business whose near-term fundamentals are excellent but whose upside is still ultimately a function of precious metals prices and counterparties’ mine performance.
The quality is undeniable. Gross margin of 72.2%, operating margin of 68.3%, ROIC of 18.2%, ROE of 16.9%, no debt, and $1.15B of cash give Wheaton a fortress balance sheet and enormous resilience. Operating cash flow of $1.90B on $1.47B of net income is also a healthy confirmation that 2025 earnings were real cash economics, not accounting vapor. This is why the stock deserves a premium to miners: it avoids direct operating cost inflation, has limited capex burden, and keeps optionality to deploy capital into new streams. But “deserves a premium” is not the same as “deserves any price.” At a $60.95B market cap, investors are capitalizing 2025’s windfall economics as if they are a stable base. If I put even a generous 25-30x multiple on $1.47B of earnings, I get roughly $36.8B-$44.1B of equity value, or about 27-39% below the current market cap. To justify $60.95B, you need either materially higher normalized earnings than 2025 or confidence that 2025 is still early in a long metal-price upcycle. That may happen, but it is not the conservative inference from the five-year data.
What stands out most is the disconnect between the company type and the valuation badge being pinned on it. This is being treated partly like a “dividend-income” defensive name, yet the dividend yield is just 0.54% with a 20.1% payout ratio. Investors are clearly not buying current income; they are buying high-quality gold exposure and future deal optionality. That is a valid thesis, but then the stock should be analyzed as a macro-sensitive asset with embedded growth assumptions, not as a staid compounder. The momentum figures are also flattering in a way that can mislead: 50.9% revenue CAGR and 65.5% earnings CAGR are mathematically true off a depressed base, but the annual series itself shows that 2025 is doing most of the work. When a company goes from $1.02B revenue in 2023 to $2.31B in 2025, the right question is not “how fast is it growing?” but “how much of this is repeatable at lower metal prices or with any project slippage?” On that question, the data here do not support paying a peak multiple on peak-ish margins.
The strongest case against my view is that I may be underestimating how structurally better this business is than the historical comparison set. A debt-free streamer with 68% operating margins, 18% ROIC, $1.15B in cash, and effectively no sustaining capex can remain expensive for a long time because each incremental dollar of precious metals price realization drops through disproportionately to cash flow. If 2025 is not a one-off but the first full year of a new production and pricing plateau, then 41x trailing earnings may compress very quickly on forward numbers. A bull would also point out that net income in 2023 was already $538M on just $1.02B of revenue, proving the model’s cash efficiency even in softer periods, and that the balance sheet gives management dry powder for accretive streaming deals that traditional miners cannot match. In other words, the right comparison may not be cyclical miners at 10-15x earnings, but scarce royalty/streaming franchises with better downside protection and embedded call options on gold and silver.
What would change my mind is evidence that 2025 earnings are not close to cyclical high-water marks. If Wheaton can sustain revenue above $2.2B and operating cash flow above $1.7B for the next 12 months without a major further surge in gold prices, then the base earning power is higher than I am crediting. I would also turn more constructive if new stream deals deploy a meaningful portion of the $1.15B cash balance at returns that preserve something close to the current 18% ROIC, because that would justify part of today’s premium as reinvestment optionality rather than simple bullion beta. Absent that, I think the stock is priced for an unusually favorable metals tape and near-flawless execution from counterparties.
Grok Reading
The 2025 income statement is the entire story, and it is not the story the growth labels imply. Revenue vaulted from $1.28B to $2.31B and net income from $529M to $1.47B—an 80% top-line and 178% earnings surge that produces the seductive 51% revenue and 66% earnings CAGRs. Strip out that single year and the prior four-year record is flat-to-down: revenue slid from $1.20B in 2021 to $1.02B in 2023 before a modest recovery. The streaming model itself is pristine—72% gross margins, 68% operating margins, 64% net margins, zero debt, $1.15B cash, $1.90B operating cash flow, 17% ROE—but those economics were already visible when the company earned $500–750M. What changed is the gold price and a production step-up, not a permanent re-rating of the business’s growth algorithm. At $134 and 41× trailing earnings / 26× sales, the market is capitalizing what looks like peak-cycle streaming cash flow as if it were the new run-rate.
That is the contradiction the quantitative labels miss. Calling this a “high-growth profitable” archetype with 0.86 confidence simply annualizes a commodity-and-volume spike. The pre-flight note that the market is embedding elevated gold and aggressive new-deal deployment is closer to reality: $1.15B of dry powder can buy incremental streams, yet historical deal IRRs compress when every streaming competitor is chasing the same ounces at high metal prices. A 0.5% dividend yield and 20% payout ratio confirm this is not an income vehicle; it is a leveraged gold proxy with superior capital discipline. Paying 7× book and 26× sales for that proxy only works if gold stays structurally above the levels that produced the 2025 print and if partner mines deliver without the hiccups the thesis evaluation correctly flags.
The strongest counter-case is straightforward and numerical. The signal-adjusted fair-value composite sits at $132.75—essentially the current $134—so the stock is not wildly detached from a multi-method DCF that already assumes durable precious-metals strength. The fortress balance sheet (current ratio 7.8, debt-to-equity zero) and contractual offtake structure genuinely remove the operational left-tail that destroys traditional miners, which justifies a structural premium to the mining sector. Central-bank buying and geopolitical bid for gold could keep the metal elevated longer than mean-reversion bears expect, turning the 2025 earnings base into a plateau rather than a peak and allowing the $1.15B cash to compound via new streams at still-attractive IRRs. Under that path, 18% ROIC on an expanding capital base supports mid-teens earnings growth and makes 35–40× forward earnings defensible. I weigh this less heavily because the same data show 2021–2024 earnings never cleared $755M even in prior strong gold tapes; capitalizing $1.47B at a growth multiple assumes the exception is the rule.
I would reverse to a clear buy if gold holds above roughly $2,400 while Wheaton prints another year of revenue above $2.0B and deploys at least half its cash into accretive streams with sub-$1,000 all-in costs to Wheaton, proving 2025 was a new floor. A sustained break in gold back toward $2,000 or a guidance cut that resets earnings power below $900M would confirm the overvaluation and push the stock toward the unadjusted $114 composite.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Wheaton Precious Metals is a precious-metals streaming company, and the 2025 numbers show the model working as intended: revenue jumped from $1.28B to $2.31B (+81%), gross margin expanded from 62.5% to 72.2%, operating margin ripped to 68.3%, and net income nearly tripled to $1.47B. Free cash flow of $1.90B on $2.31B revenue is an 82% FCF/revenue conversion - elite by any standard and consistent with a capital-light streaming structure where cost of sales is largely fixed per-ounce contractual payments while the top line rides spot metal prices. Share count is remarkably disciplined for a mining-adjacent name: 451.2M to 454.7M diluted shares over five years, roughly 0.2% annual creep - effectively no dilution. That is unusual for the sector and directly protects per-share value as cash flow scales. Every year in the window is solidly profitable; even the 2022-2023 trough still produced $537M-$669M net income and $743M-$750M FCF. Earnings quality looks clean at the aggregate level - FCF exceeds net income in every year shown, which is the opposite of the accruals red flag pattern. The main structural caveats are exogenous: results are heavily levered to gold/silver prices (2025's blowout is partly commodity tailwind, not just execution), and the streaming model concentrates exposure to counterparty miners whose operating performance Wheaton does not control.
Verify before trusting this (6)
- Stream-by-stream concentration and top counterparty exposure in the 10-K
- How much of 2025 revenue growth is volume (ounces delivered) vs price realization
- Any new stream acquisitions and their funding source (cash vs debt vs equity)
- Balance sheet: debt levels, cash, and any undrawn revolver capacity
- Dividend policy and payout ratio given the FCF surge
- Impairment history on stream assets, especially on underperforming counterparty mines
The composite FV of $113.85 sits ~15% below the $134.21 price, while the signal-adjusted FV of $132.75 lands essentially on top of it - a -1% upside read. The anchored-PE method ($141) says slight discount; the EPV floor ($18.65) is a runaway output reflecting streaming's low reported earnings base and should be ignored as a fair-value anchor, though it is a useful reminder that today's price embeds a very generous commodity assumption. Net: the market is paying a full, quality-adjusted price for a Fortress-grade streamer at elevated gold prices. What's priced in is roughly perpetual mid-cycle-to-strong gold, continued 70%+ gross margins, and the $1.9B FCF run-rate holding. That is not heroic, but it is not conservative either - the 2022-2023 dip shows the top line is still commodity-linked, and no meaningful margin of safety exists if gold mean-reverts 15-20%. I see no gap to exploit here; quality is real, but I am paying for all of it.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Realized gold/silver price assumptions embedded in guidance vs spot
- Attributable production growth pipeline (Salobo III ramp, Blackwater, Goose) and timing
- Whether FCF/earnings gap is sustainable or one-off working capital
- Any new stream deals and their IRR at current metal prices
The non-fundamental pressure on WPM is clearly positive right now. Gold just printed $4,400 and the narrative shifting through the tape is that miners and streamers are finally closing the gap to bullion after years of lagging - that is a direct, sector-specific tailwind that lands hard on a pure-play streamer like WPM. Layer on a Q2 beat with record revenue, record YTD production, and an 18% dividend hike, and the news flow itself is unambiguously supportive. The macro tape is mildly supportive too: VIX at 14.3, a risk-on regime, and no equity stress means safe-haven flows are not the driver - the commodity narrative is. WPM's 1.19 beta means it participates in the risk-on move, but the real force here is the gold/streamer story, not broad tape. The narrative archetype is 'steady compounder' with low intensity and no cult premium, so this is not a euphoric setup that can crack on a single headline - it is a durable story getting fresh fuel from the commodity print. The one caveat: with price essentially at DCF fair value and momentum already ripping (80% recent vs 51% long-term CAGR), a lot of the good news is in. Any reversal in gold or a rates-normalization scare would remove the prop quickly, but nothing in the current flow points that way.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Whether gold holds above $4,000 - a break would gut the miners catch-up narrative
- Real yields and 10y direction - a sharp rates move would compress the gold trade
- Analyst target revisions post-Q2 - upgrades would extend the tailwind
- Any rotation out of precious metals into risk assets if VIX stays crushed
The world is paying up for gold on official-sector accumulation and sovereign-debasement hedging rather than on falling real rates — an unusual configuration that has kept the metal strong against a 4.63% 10y. Wheaton is the cleanest way that regime converts to earnings: it captures the price with none of the diesel, labour or grade-decline inflation that is eating miners' margins, and it is simultaneously the lender of choice to a mining industry that remains capital-shy about building new capacity. That capital scarcity is precisely what keeps its deal pipeline full. The vulnerability is symmetrical and simple: the business owns no cost lever to pull if the metal regime changes, so the same insulation that makes it superior on the way up removes any cushion on the way down.
When we made this prediction on Aug 17, 2026, WPM was $134.21. We expect it to be $124.00 by Feb 2027, and we consider it great value under $110.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 17, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.
Post-Report Due Diligence NOTES
Evidence for a closer look, not a verdict — no score or designation on this page has been changed by it. Items marked material are ones where a conclusion above moves to the other side of the price.
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