Growth in copper, addition of gold, and upsideon minor metals
CMOC reported 2025 NPAT of RMB20.3bn, +50% YoY and in line with ourestimate. Key takeaways from earnings call below.
2025 results: decent cost control on copper mines. Production of 741kt copper and 117.5ktcobalt was a new record. Copper sales were largely aligned with production at 730kt, whilecobalt was affected by the DRC export control at 51kt. On back of cost inflation globally,mgmt noted the all-in production cost decreased by 2%/5%+ at TFM/ KFM, respectively,demonstrating strong ability on cost control. This is mainly due to 1) larger production/processing volume, which reduced unit overheads, and 2) improved recovery rate and thuslower unit consumption of reacting agents, etc, and these helped to offset the impact of amarginal decrease in grade. CMOC's OPCF was RMB21bn in 2025, vs RMB32bn in 2024. Mgmtclarified that there are no operating/cash flow management issues. OPCF from the company'smining operation actually increased by 30%+ YoY in 2025, and the OPCF decrease came fromits trading arm, IXM. More specifically, because of the copper price hike from