Agnico Eagle Reports First Quarter 2025 Results

24 April 2025

TORONTO, April 24, 2025 /CNW/ - Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE: AEM) (TSX: AEM) ("Agnico Eagle" or the "Company") today reported financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2025.

"We've had an excellent start to the year with another quarter of strong operating and financial results. This performance has allowed us to further strengthen our balance sheet and has positioned us well for the remainder of the year," said Ammar Al-Joundi, Agnico Eagle's President and Chief Executive Officer. "We remain focused on execution and cost control to continue delivering expanding operating margins in a rising gold price environment. This enables us to reinvest in the business through exploration and the advancement of our five key pipeline projects, while continuing to strengthen our financial position and increase returns to shareholders," added Mr. Al-Joundi.

First quarter 2025 highlights:

  • Strong quarterly gold production and cost performance – Payable gold production1 was 873,794 ounces at production costs per ounce of $879, total cash costs per ounce2 of $903 and all-in sustaining costs ("AISC") per ounce2 of $1,183. The strong operational performance in the first quarter of 2025, led by Canadian Malartic, LaRonde, Macassa and the Nunavut operations, positions the Company well for 2025. Full year production and cost guidance remains unchanged
  • Record quarterly adjusted net income and strong free cash flow generation – The Company reported quarterly net income of $815 million or $1.62 per share and record adjusted net income3 of $770 million or $1.53 per share. The Company generated cash provided by operating activities of $1,044 million or $2.08 per share ($1,209 million or $2.41 per share of cash provided by operating activities before changes in non-cash components of working capital4) and free cash flow4 of $594 million or $1.18 per share ($759 million or $1.51 per share of free cash flow before changes in non-cash components of working capital4)
  • Strengthening investment grade balance sheet – The Company increased its cash position by $212 million to $1,138 million and approached a zero net debt position. At the end of the first quarter of 2025, total debt outstanding was $1,143 million and net debt5 was reduced to $5 million. In addition, in February 2025, Moody's revised its rating outlook for the Company to positive from stable and re-affirmed the Company's long-term issuer rating of Baa1
  • Continued focus on shareholder returns – A quarterly dividend of $0.40 per share has been declared. In addition, the Company repurchased 488,047 common shares during the quarter at an average share price of $102.44 for aggregate consideration of $50 million under its normal course issuer bid ("NCIB"). The Company intends to seek approval from the TSX to renew the NCIB for another year on substantially the same terms, and intends to increase the limit of purchases under the NCIB to $1 billion of common shares. Additional details will be provided at the time of the renewal
  • 2024 Sustainability Report published – The Company continues to demonstrate its commitment to sustainability and released its 2024 Sustainability Report on April 24, 2025
  • Update on key value drivers and pipeline projects
    • Canadian Malartic – In the first quarter of 2025, ramp development reached the bottom of the first mining horizon at East Gouldie. Excavation of the mid-shaft loading station between levels 102 and 114 commenced and the temporary service hoist was commissioned. Exploration drilling continued to extend the East Gouldie deposit to the east and extend the newly discovered, sub-parallel Eclipse zone. The Company also completed the acquisition of O3 Mining Inc. ("O3 Mining") in the first quarter of 2025 – additional funding of $5.5 million has been allocated for a first phase of exploration in 2025 that will include 24,000 metres of drilling at the Marban deposit, which is located immediately northeast of the Canadian Malartic property
    • Detour Lake – In the first quarter of 2025, construction of the temporary infrastructure for the underground project advanced and the excavation of overburden for the exploration ramp portal was completed. The permit to take water was received in April 2025 and excavation of the ramp is expected to commence in the coming weeks. Exploration drilling into the high-grade corridor in the West Pit zone further defined the high-grade domains that could potentially be mined early in the underground project. Drilling into the West Extension zone at underground depths near the planned ramp returned highlight intersections of 3.0 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold over 44.5 metres at 585 metres depth and 3.9 g/t gold over 17.6 metres at 624 metres depth
    • Upper Beaver – In the first quarter of 2025, the box cut for the exploration ramp was completed and installation of the steel structure for the head frame and construction of the hoist room advanced. Work is progressing on schedule, with excavation of the exploration ramp and the sinking of the exploration shaft expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2025
    • Patch 7 at Hope Bay – In the first quarter of 2025, exploration drilling at Hope Bay totalled 29,450 metres with a focus on the Patch 7 and Suluk zones at the Madrid deposit. Recent results continue to demonstrate continuity within the known zones and support the potential for mineral resource expansion at depth and along strike, with a highlight intersection of 24.1 g/t gold over 9.5 metres at 636 metres depth in the gap area between Patch 7 and Suluk
    • San Nicolás project – In the first quarter of 2025, Minas de San Nicolás continued working on a feasibility study, with completion expected in the second half of 2025

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1 Payable production of a mineral means the quantity of a mineral produced during a period contained in products that have been or will be sold by the Company whether such products are shipped during the period or held as inventory at the end of the period. Payable gold production for the three months ended March 31, 2025 excludes payable gold production at La India and Creston Mascota of 1,811 and 25 ounces, respectively, which were produced from residual leaching.

2 Total cash costs per ounce and all-in sustaining costs per ounce or AISC per ounce are non-GAAP ratios that are not standardized financial measures under IFRS and, in this news release, unless otherwise specified, are reported on (i) a per ounce of gold production basis, and (ii) a by-product basis. For a description of the composition and usefulness of these non-GAAP ratios and reconciliations of total cash costs per ounce and AISC per ounce to production costs on both a by-product and a co-product basis, see "Note Regarding Certain Measures of Performance" below.

3 Adjusted net income and adjusted net income per share are non-GAAP measures or ratios that are not standardized financial measures under IFRS. For a description of the composition and usefulness of these non-GAAP measures and a reconciliation to net income see "Note Regarding Certain Measures of Performance" below.

4 Cash provided by operating activities before changes in non-cash components of working capital, free cash flow and free cash flow before changes in non-cash components of working capital and their related per share measures are non-GAAP measures or ratios that are not standardized financial measures under IFRS. For a description of the composition and usefulness of these non-GAAP measures and a reconciliation to cash provided by operating activities see "Note Regarding Certain Measures of Performance" below.

5 Net debt is a non-GAAP measure that is not a standardized financial measure under IFRS. For a description of the composition and usefulness of this non-GAAP measure and a reconciliation to long-term debt, see "Note Regarding Certain Measures of Performance" below.

First Quarter 2025 Results Conference Call and Webcast Tomorrow

The Company's senior management will host a conference call on Friday, April 25, 2025, at 8:30 AM (E.D.T.) to discuss the Company's financial and operating results.

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