FNV: Future Royalty Cash Flows Will Reflect Strong Precious Metal Pricing

The updated analyst price target for Franco-Nevada reflects a modest uplift in fair value to about $346, as analysts balance higher valuation multiples on cash-flowing royalty assets and stronger precious metals pricing with more cautious sentiment linked to recent gold price volatility.

Analyst Commentary

Recent Street research on Franco-Nevada shows a split view, with some analysts lifting targets and ratings based on royalty asset quality and commodity pricing, while others point to sentiment risk around gold price volatility.

Bullish Takeaways

Bullish analysts are raising price targets in both US$ and C$, citing higher valuation multiples on cash-flowing royalties and other assets as they recalibrate models to current commodity pricing.
Several research notes highlight Cobre Panama and other royalty interests as sources of potential upside to asset value, which feeds directly into higher net asset value based valuation work.
Some bullish analysts reference continuing momentum in capital returns and corporate M&A across precious metals, which they view as supportive for Franco-Nevada's growth options and portfolio depth.
One upgrade to Buy points to contributions from Cote, Porcupine and Antapaccay as supporting execution against the company's production guidance midpoint of 495,000 oz, which is closely aligned with that analyst's 496,000 oz forecast.

Bearish Takeaways

Bearish analysts maintain more cautious ratings, such as Hold, even when acknowledging a solid Q3 report, signalling concern that execution and fundamentals may already be reflected in the share price.
The rollover of investor sentiment following a recent gold price pullback is cited as a key reason for trimming targets, with higher market volatility viewed as a risk to near-term valuation support.
Some commentary suggests that while current commodity pricing supports cash flow, the sector-wide rally in precious metals stocks, including Franco-Nevada, could limit upside if sentiment weakens further.
Where targets are reduced, analysts are incorporating more conservative assumptions around how much of the commodity price backdrop and Q3 performance should be capitalized into longer-term valuation multiples.

What's in the News

Franco-Nevada narrowed its 2025 Precious Metal GEO sales guidance to a range of 420,000 to 440,000 GEO, compared with initial guidance of 385,000 to 425,000 GEO. (company guidance)
The company also narrowed its 2025 total GEO sales guidance to 495,000 to 525,000 GEO, versus an initial range of 465,000 to 525,000 GEO. (company guidance)

Valuation Changes

Fair Value: updated to about $346.39 from $340.59, a slight uplift in the modeled fair value estimate.
Discount Rate: now at about 7.16% compared with 7.14% previously, indicating a very small adjustment to the risk input.
Revenue Growth: maintained at about 19.71%, with no material change in the long term growth assumption.
Net Profit Margin: essentially unchanged at about 68.36%, reflecting stable profitability expectations in the model.
Future P/E: updated to about 33.28x from 32.70x, a modest increase in the valuation multiple applied to projected earnings.

Record gold prices, rising demand, and strategic acquisitions are expanding margins, diversifying assets, and strengthening Franco-Nevada's revenue growth and cash flow stability.
Conservative financial management and strong cash generation enable the company to capitalize on market opportunities, supporting long-term growth and compounding returns.
Dependence on gold prices and concentrated assets, increased buyback provisions, rising competition, and regulatory hurdles all threaten Franco-Nevada's revenue growth and margin stability.

Catalysts

About Franco-Nevada

Operates as a royalty and stream company focused on precious metals in South America, Central America, Mexico, the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, and internationally.What are the underlying business or industry changes driving this perspective?

Robust, record-level gold prices combined with ongoing global inflation concerns and monetary debasement are driving record royalty revenues and expanding margins for Franco-Nevada. This strengthens top-line revenue growth and leads to higher operating and net margins.
Heightened geopolitical instability and a shift toward gold as a safe-haven asset are supporting continued high demand for gold, enhancing royalty cash flows and improving the sustainability of revenue and earnings growth.
Accelerating development and potential earlier-than-expected production from large-scale growth projects such as Cascabel, Castle Mountain, and possibly New Prosperity, broadens the near
and medium-term revenue pipeline and provides potential upside to future guidance and earnings.
Recent and ongoing acquisitions of high-quality, long-life assets (e.g., Cote Gold, Arthur/AngloGold's Nevada projects, Yanacocha, Western Limb) have substantially diversified the portfolio, decreasing operational risk and underpinning a stronger, more stable growth trajectory for revenues and cash flow.
The company's strong balance sheet, high cash flow generation, and conservative financial management position it to capitalize on market dislocations and seize attractive, distressed or strategic royalty/streaming deals, enabling compounding returns and supporting higher net margins over time.

Franco-Nevada Earnings and Revenue Growth

Franco-Nevada Future Earnings and Revenue Growth

Assumptions

How have these above catalysts been quantified?

Analysts are assuming Franco-Nevada's revenue will grow by 19.5% annually over the next 3 years.
Analysts assume that profit margins will shrink from 59.4% today to 59.0% in 3 years time.
Analysts expect earnings to reach $1.3 billion (and earnings per share of $5.98) by about September 2028, up from $785.0 million today.
In order for the above numbers to justify the analysts price target, the company would need to trade at a PE ratio of 35.4x on those 2028 earnings, down from 46.7x today. This future PE is greater than the current PE for the US Metals and Mining industry at 18.0x.
Analysts expect the number of shares outstanding to grow by 0.11% per year for the next 3 years.
To value all of this in today's terms, we will use a discount rate of 6.42%, as per the Simply Wall St company report.

Franco-Nevada Future Earnings Per Share Growth

Risks

What could happen that would invalidate this narrative?

Franco-Nevada's earnings and revenue remain heavily dependent on high gold prices, exposing the company to significant downside risk if long-term gold demand falls due to global decarbonization, a shift in investor preference, or higher real interest rates that reduce gold's appeal as a non-yielding asset.
Portfolio concentration risk persists, as major contributor assets-such as Candelaria (15% of Q2 revenue) and Cobre Panama-represent disproportionately large portions of revenue; any operational interruption, political action, or regulatory setback on these assets could cause significant earnings volatility.
Increased buyback provisions on key new royalties (e.g., Cote, Porcupine) enable operators to repurchase portions of the royalty at their discretion, potentially reducing Franco-Nevada's share of future revenue and compressing long-term net margins.
The competitive landscape for attractive, high-quality royalty and streaming deals is intensifying, raising acquisition costs and possibly forcing Franco-Nevada to accept lower-return deals, which may adversely affect future revenue growth and net margin expansion.
Long permitting timelines, ongoing regulatory and ESG scrutiny (as seen in BC with New Prosperity and general permitting challenges in the US), and greater involvement of local stakeholders threaten to delay or block mine developments, limiting the timely realization of revenue from Franco-Nevada's pipeline of development-stage assets.

Valuation

How have all the factors above been brought together to estimate a fair value?

The analysts have a consensus price target of CA$279.067 for Franco-Nevada based on their expectations of its future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors. However, there is a degree of disagreement amongst analysts, with the most bullish reporting a price target of CA$313.25, and the most bearish reporting a price target of just CA$264.96.
In order for you to agree with the analyst's consensus, you'd need to believe that by 2028, revenues will be $2.3 billion, earnings will come to $1.3 billion, and it would be trading on a PE ratio of 35.4x, assuming you use a discount rate of 6.4%.
Given the current share price of CA$262.37, the analyst price target of CA$279.07 is 6.0% higher. The relatively low difference between the current share price and the analyst consensus price target indicates that they believe on average, the company is fairly priced.
We always encourage you to reach your own conclusions though. So sense check these analyst numbers against your own assumptions and expectations based on your understanding of the business and what you believe is probable.

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