Coeur posted $1.04B revenue for the first time. The SilverCrest acquisition is performing, but Rochester costs remain sticky. The stock's leverage to silver is real.
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Coeur Mining posted its first quarter with revenue above $1 billion. The headline number, $1.04 billion, was up sharply from $639 million a year earlier and marked a step-change in scale for a mid-tier precious metals producer that has spent the past two years buying its way into a different league.
Net income came in at $81.5 million, or 20 cents a share. A year ago the company lost $41.5 million. The swing reflects both higher gold and silver prices and the contribution from mines Coeur did not own two years ago: the SilverCrest acquisition closed in late 2024, and the company has been integrating the Las Chispas operation in Mexico ever since.
The obvious question is whether $1 billion quarters are repeatable. Gold averaged about $2,700 an ounce during the quarter. Silver ran above $32. At spot prices today – gold near $2,950, silver around $34 – the math works. But Coeur's cost structure has shifted. All-in sustaining cost (AISC) came in at $1,460 per ounce of gold equivalent. That is higher than the $1,200-$1,300 range the company used to quote for Rochester alone. The SilverCrest assets run at a lower cost, but the overall fleet is more expensive than the old Coeur was.
Production guidance offers some cover. Coeur expects 2025 output of 440,000 to 490,000 ounces of gold and 20 million to 22 million ounces of silver. At current prices, even the low end of guidance keeps revenue above $1 billion a quarter. The risk is on costs. Labor, power, and consumables inflation in Nevada and Mexico are real. The company hedged some diesel and power costs but not all.
Las Chispas produced 4.1 million ounces of silver and 37,000 ounces of gold in the quarter, contributing roughly $320 million in revenue at the average prices Coeur realized. The mine's AISC ran at about $11.50 per ounce of silver – well below Coeur's corporate average and competitive with any primary silver mine in the Americas. The integration has gone faster than management expected. The company is already running Las Chispas at its nameplate 2,000 tonnes per day. Underground development is ahead of plan, which gives Coeur options to push throughput higher next year.
The main constraint at Las Chispas is not ore – the resource is there – but ventilation and shaft capacity. Coeur is spending $25 million this year on a ventilation upgrade. That capital sits inside the $380 million to $420 million total capex budget. If the upgrade finishes on schedule, Las Chispas could do 2,200 tonnes a day by mid-2026. That alone adds about 8% to silver production from the mine without buying anything.
The Rochester mine in Nevada is Coeur's other big story. The new crushing, agglomeration, and stacking system – the "expansion" the company talks about – reached commercial production in the fourth quarter of 2024. Output from Rochester was 49,000 ounces of gold and 1.5 million ounces of silver in the quarter, both up from the pre-expansion run rate. The problem is that Rochester's AISC came in at $1,750 per ounce of gold equivalent. That is high for a heap-leach operation. The design assumed the expansion would lower unit costs by spreading fixed costs over more ounces. So far the cost per ounce has not fallen as much as the model predicted.
Management blamed higher-than-expected reagent consumption and labour costs. Both are fixable. Reagent chemistry can be tuned. Labour in the Elko area is tight but not getting tighter – several other Nevada mines are cutting headcount. The question is whether the cost improvement shows up in the next two quarters or drifts into 2026. If Rochester's AISC stays above $1,700, the margin on those ounces shrinks fast when gold drops $200.
Coeur also owns the Kennecott exploration project in Alaska and the Crown deposit in Nevada. Both are pre-development. Kennecott is a large copper-gold porphyry system that Coeur acquired as part of the SilverCrest deal. The company has not said much about it publicly, but the resource is significant enough that several major miners have asked for a look. Coeur is not selling yet. Crown is a high-grade gold deposit that could feed the Rochester mill. A preliminary economic assessment is due later this year. Neither project generates cash now, but both represent upside optionality that is not in the valuation.
Coeur ended the quarter with $153 million in cash and $447 million in debt. Net debt is manageable at about $300 million, or less than one year's EBITDA at current prices. The debt is mostly the term loan used to finance the SilverCrest acquisition, which carries a floating rate. If silver stays above $30, coverage is easy. If silver drops to $25, the math gets tighter. The company does not hedge much – just a few forward sales on silver to cover minimum royalty commitments. That means full exposure to the metal price, for better or worse.
The silver market is tight. Global mine supply has been flat for five years. Industrial demand, led by solar photovoltaic manufacturing, keeps growing. The deficit between supply and demand has run for four consecutive years. That structural story supports Coeur more than most silver miners because Las Chispas is one of the few large primary silver mines in the world with a low cost base. If silver rallies to $40, Coeur's free cash flow roughly doubles from current levels. The leverage to silver is real.
Coeur trades at about 12 times trailing free cash flow. That is not expensive for a growing precious metals producer, but it is not distressed either. The CDE stock page shows an Alpha Score of 71, labeled Moderate. The score reflects decent profitability and growth metrics weighed against the cyclical risk in the commodity price. The stock has rallied with gold and silver this year, and the valuation now assumes current metal prices hold.
If gold drops to $2,500 and silver to $28, Coeur's free cash flow falls by about half, and the multiple would likely contract. If gold holds $2,900 and silver pushes through $35, earnings estimates go up. The next catalyst is the second-quarter production report, due in July. The market will be looking for two things: whether Rochester costs are falling, and whether Las Chispas keeps hitting its targets. A miss on either would hit the stock harder than a miss on revenue.
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