Franco-Nevada Corporation
Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

Published: 11 Mar 2021

[Operator:]

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Franco-Nevada Corporation Year-end 2020 Results Conference Call. At this time all lines are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation we will conduct a question-and-answer session. This call is being recorded on March 11, 2021. I would now like to turn the conference over to Candida Hayden. Please go ahead.

[Candida Hayden:]

Thank you, Joanna. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today to discuss Franco-Nevada's 2020 year-end results. Accompanying this call is a presentation, which is available on our website at franco-nevada.com, where you will also find our full financial results. Paul Brink, President and CEO of Franco-Nevada will provide introductory remarks; Sandip Rana, our CFO will provide an overview of our 2020 results; Eaun Gray, our Senior Vice President of Business Development will provide an overview of the Condestable transaction; and Jason O'Connell, our Senior Vice President of Energy will provide an overview of the Haynesville transaction. This will be followed by a Q&A period. Our executive team is available to answer any questions.

[Paul Brink:]

Thank you, Candida. And good morning. Our tagline is Franco-Nevada is the gold investment that works. And we're committed to ensuring it does work, for our shareholders, our operating partners and our communities. We're proud of the results achieved in 2020. But would like to start by thanking our staff and supporters and the employees and communities that are operating assets for all your efforts and particularly your resolve through the pandemic this year to make the results possible. 2020 was a strong year for Franco-Nevada. We received top ESG ratings during the year from Sustainalytics, NCI and ISS. We were active through the year contributing to help communities weather the COVID-19 crisis. We're committed to the World Gold Council's responsible gold mining principles, and during the year became a signatory of the UN Global Compact and the BlackNorth pledge. We've also strengthened our commitment to increase diversity of Franco-Nevada by adopting a goal of at least 40% diverse representation at the Board and Senior Management levels by 2025. Our diverse portfolio weathered the impacts of the pandemic better than expected. Despite COVID interruptions at a number of our operations and a strike at Candelaria, we were able to match and even slightly beat 2019 GEO sales. Our energy assets recovered well through the back half of the year, also exceeding our revised guidance. Cobre Panama produced first ore in 2019 but it was really 2020 that it adjoined Candelaria, Antamina and Antapaccay as one of our core long term cash flow generators. On the back of higher gold prices, the portfolio generated record financial results. Our revenue exceeded $1 billion for the first time. Our EBITDA margin increased over 80% and our fourth quarter was our most profitable quarter on record. On the strength of these results, we're increasing the quarterly dividends to $0.30 a share, starting with our second quarter dividend payment in June. This will mark our 14th successive annual dividend increase. The greater than 15% increase is larger than typical. But now that we're receiving full contribution from Cobre Panama, we feel it's well warranted. Our business development team saw good success for the year. Over the last 12 months we acquired a royalty on the Alpala Copper Gold development property in Ecuador, a portfolio of natural gas royalties in the Haynesville Shale, and a precious metal stream on Condestable Copper operations in Peru. The team was selective about the assets they chose, patiently waiting for the right window in the energy markets and added both to immediate cash flow and long term growth potential.

[Sandip Rana:]

Thank you, Paul. Good morning, everyone. As we know, 2020 was not a typical year. As Paul mentioned, a number of our assets were impacted in the first half of the year because of the pandemic. But with the steps that our operators and partners took, and as the year progressed, we saw our royalty and stream interests return to normal operations. As a result, Franco-Nevada ended 2020 with a strong fourth quarter, resulting in record financial results for the quarter and full year. As you turn to slide 13, you can see how the company performed against the guidance levels that were issued in 2020. The initial guidance provided by the company was $550,000 to $580,000 GEO sold. Due to the impact on operations of the pandemic, initial GEO sold guidance was retracted in the spring. Once operations stabilized the revised guidance was $475,000 to $505,000 GEOs.

[Eaun Gray:]

Thank you, Sandip and good morning. We're very happy to announce the closing of gold and silver stream for $165 million over the Condestable mine located in Peru. Mine is owned by Southern Peaks Mining, which is a GNRI portfolio company. We're very excited about this opportunity as we see excellent geological potential in the asset, which I'll speak to further in a moment. Condestable has a very long history its recently grown at Institute Global Resources to over 90 million tons of M&I on the back of significant drilling and very good geological work. We believe the potential for near mine and depth extensions of these ore bodies is excellent and are quite excited to partner with Southern Peaks on the asset where we see very good potential for output growth and mine life extension. The mine is currently in the process of expanding to 804,000 tonnes per day this year and is advancing studies to move to 10,000 tonnes per day. This further expansion does require some permitting but we see 10,000 tonnes per day or more as very likely with time. It's worth noting also that the stream benefits from five years of fixed deliveries which helps derisk any ramp-up. Well, the mine is privately owned and does not have publicly reported reserves, our team is confident that current resources should support a 15-year plus wind plant. Moving to Slide 26, we've shown Condestable's location in the Andes copper belt, and the overall concession. As you'll see the main benefits from a location 90 kilometers south of Lima. This provides easy access to labor and infrastructure, which underpins very low operating costs and puts the mine in the bottom half of the cost curve. It's worth highlighting that our technical team sees great parallels here between the deposits geology, and the underground that Candelaria where we saw reserves grow tenfold since the acquisition. The underground vein mineralization is similar between them. And both benefit from excellent geotechnical conditions truly helps in terms of costs and safety. As part of the deal, we're also partnering with the operator on community development initiatives around the mine. We're very excited to have a positive impact here. Mine is enjoying good relationships with communities for many years. The stream also covers 45,000 hectares, which is a very large land package, location of the concession is shown on the right-hand side of the page. Our team sees this is highly prospective land and we believe there's good potential for more discoveries over time. Moving to Slide 27, we've shown a cross section of the deposits that make up Condestable. The stream applies to the Condestable, Raul, and Vinchos mines which are highlighted on this slide. The key takeaway here is the potential that more of a depth and along its right. We see good drill indicated upside confirming the large size of the system. This makes us believe the asset should be a good contributor across multiple cycles. Moving on to the next slide, we've highlighted the deal terms. The stream is effective for January 1st, and it will start contributing immediately. The deliveries are fixed for the first five years, as I mentioned, and they provide roughly 13,000 GEOS annually through that period. We like the fixed feature given the certainty in the medium-term. But we believe that the variable delivery is give us great exposure to the geological upside that we expect to see here. The delivery switch to 63% of gold and silver contained in concentrate after year five which we expect to last for roughly another five years before it steps down to 25% of the gold and silver for the entire life of mine. We have offered the operator the ability to buy the stream down with an advanced delivery for the first four years. If this were to occur, it would boost our returns and still give us immediate exposure with the 25% variable stream which would commence their bond. It's worth noting that the buy down in year one is only possible under certain circumstances. Overall, we see this as a very good fit with our mall, as it maximizes geological optionality on exciting deposits in a large land package, mitigating our risk with the initial fixed deliveries. We expect that it will be a long-term contributor. Thank you very much. And with that, I'll hand it over to Jason.

[Jason O'Connell:]

Thanks, Eaun and good morning, everyone. In December, we close a transaction with a private company Mesa Minerals Partners to acquire their portfolio of royalties in East Texas for $135 million. The assets consist of about 2,640 net mineral acres, which provides for perpetual ownership interest in the land, and which is shown on the map on the right-hand side of slide 29. The acreage is situated in the western portion of the Haynesville shale play in Harrison and Panola counties, where the producing formation is at its thickest. The Haynesville along with Marcellus Shale in the Northeastern U.S. are the two most significant natural gas players in the United States. The Haynesville benefits from its close proximity to the US Gulf Coast, where low transportation costs provide strong underlying economics for operators. Throughout the commodity price downturn in 2020, the Haynesville remained one of the most robust basins in North America, and saw only limited drawdown in drilling rates relative to other shale plays. The portfolio of royalties we are acquiring was originally assembled by Mesa in partnership with Rockcliff Energy. Both companies are sponsored by the private equity group, Quantum Energy Partners, and that relationship allowed for Mesa to leverage Rockcliff's geologic knowledge of the basin and to prioritize acreage buying ahead of Rockcliff's drilling program. Rockcliff is the operator on approximately 75% of the acreage positions and they are the leading operator in East Texas, part of the Haynesville. Turning to Slide 30, one of the key attributes of the royalties is that they are generating strong current cash flow. The transaction had an effective date of October 1, 2020 and in Q4 the assets generated $4.2 million of revenue from the production of 2 BCF of natural gas. We expect the assets will contribute at a similar level of $4 million to $5 million per quarter in the coming year. Looking longer term, the acreage hosts approximately 700 undeveloped well locations. And for context, last year there were about 60 wells drilled on our lands. That level of activity will provide for more than a decade of drilling activity, followed by a long tail as the wells decline. Along with excellent mineral tenure, and strong current cash flow, the transaction is attractive in that it adds to our natural gas weighing bringing the balance of the gas in our portfolio to about 35% in the current environment. In addition, it adds increased portfolio diversity from acreage position within a core of a new high-quality basin. That concludes our prepared remarks for this morning. So with that, we'll turn it back to Joanna for any questions from those on the call.

[Operator:]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session. First question comes from Tyler Langton at JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

[Tyler Langton:]

Good morning everybody. Thanks for taking my questions. I guess just to start on the energy side, I know that the guidance for this year's 115 to 135 growing to the 150 to 170 in 2025. Should that be somewhat, I guess of a linear increase over the next five years? And then can you remind us how dependent that revenue guidance is on sort of oil and gas prices?

[Paul Brink:]

Yeah. Tyler, the ramp up in revenue over the course of the next five years is not exactly linear. For many assets, there will be sort of a reasonably steady increase in production for example from our portfolio assets in the U.S. For those assets, we're expecting a continued ramp up in drilling activity. So you should see good, relatively stable year on year growth on those assets. For our Canadian assets, there's not a lot of growth of those assets other than increased revenue through better commodity prices. And the other U.S. asset that has a bit of step up call it at some point in the next two years will be Continental. We have a structure there, within that agreement that allows us to take additional distributions from that partnership, should the company fall short of certain volume targets. We expect that that could occur depending on where drilling rates are within the next two or three years. So there will be a bit of a step up around 2023 or so.

[Tyler Langton:]

And then, in terms of the sensitivity to oil and gas prices?

[Paul Brink:]

I don't have an exact number to give you. The sensitivity on our Canadian assets is related to mostly the Weyburn NRI where we have - we're responsible for our operating and capital costs at that operation. So there is a fair bit of sort of financial leverage there. With the U.S. assets, there is leverage in the form of drilling rates. And so as prices increase, typically operators will increase the capital that they spend and increase the drilling rates on the acreage. So it's more than a one-to-one relationship with price. But I don't have an exact ratio for you at this point.

[Tyler Langton:]

Got you. And then just on the acquisition front, can you just talk a little bit about what you're seeing more recently. I don't know with base metal prices having increased are you seeing more companies-based producers looking for streams on the precious metal side, if they have it or just more precious metal deals? Just kind of any color around that and sort of deal size and sort of items like that?

[SandipRana:]

Hi, Sandeep here. Yeah, I would say the three legs of the stool at the moment in terms of deal flow are probably acquisition finance, as people start to look at M&A again, seriously. Development, finance and existing royalties. And in terms of development finance, certainly byproducts lend themselves well to that. So we're hopeful we'll see some deal flow there. That's what I would point you to in terms of new transactions.

[Tyler Langton:]

Great, thanks so much.

[Operator:]

Thank you. The next question comes from Cosmos Chiu from CIBC. Please go ahead.

[Cosmos Chiu:]

Thanks, Paul, Sandeep, Euan and Jason and the team here. Great to see a very strong Q4 and also great to see the dividend increase here. Maybe my first questions on energy as well, it's kind of funny, sometimes you don't want to talk about it and now everyone wants to talk about it. Jason, I don't know if you have this handy in front of you, but could you maybe remind me what percentage of your revenue's sensitive to the different commodities? I know you have some exposure to WTI, exposure to ECHO, exposure to WCS, expect exposure to Henry Hub, like what percentage are we talking about based on your revenue?

[Jason O'Connell:]

Yes, sure, Cosmos, and I always love to talk about energy, so thanks for the question. In terms of where we have exposure, our portfolio as of Q4 was about 35% gas. Most of that is reference to Henry Hub. So call it 35% of our revenue would have Henry have exposure. We do have a bunch of exposure to natural gas liquids. So that would be propane, ethane in those various commodities. So they're exposed to a different benchmark. And then within the oil side, call it 55% of our revenue as of last quarter. I don't have the exact split, but I'd say probably, one-third exposed to Canadian light oil. So that's an Alberta benchmark, probably, another 10% exposed to WCS, which is a heavy benchmark in Canada. And then the remainder would be WTI exposure. So the broad buckets are 35% gas, 10%, NGLs and 55% or so oil.

[Cosmos Chiu:]

Great, thanks. Maybe digging a little bit deeper here, certainly back in 2020 with a rising gold price, the NPI and Hemlo did really well, just given that, there's more leverage to it. On the energy side, Jason, given the recent increase in WTI, oil, gas prices, is there anything similar to it? Because I know, for example, you talked about Wayburn. Wayburn has NRI, which was kind of like an NPI. There's also a working interest. Can we expect the same thing happen here in terms of more - I don't want to say parabolic, but giving greater leverage, either at Wayburn or somewhere else?

[Paul Brink:]

Yes. I mentioned, the biggest sort of form of financial leverage is from the Wayburn asset, which is a good portion of our Canadian revenue. And there we do have direct leverage to increases in commodity prices. That leverage obviously changes depending on what the price is. For example, in the spring when commodity prices were $30 a barrel, we were earning next to nothing from that royalty. And so every $5 incremental increase in the oil price generated a big lift in revenue. We'll continue to see, good leverage there as oil prices are moving to $65 a barrel or so in today's environment. The other form of leverage, which I sort of touched on a little bit, is from the level of activity that's associated with drilling on our U.S. assets. As commodity prices increase, operators are earning more money, they're putting more capital to work. They're drilling more wells. And all that benefits our royalties. It's just very difficult to give you an exact ratio of how that unfolds. I think in this environment, we saw drilling rates really get reduced in 2020 across North America. I think as prices rebound, we're going to get not only the benefit of being of higher revenue, but we're going to get the benefit of higher volumes associated with that increase in drilling.

[Cosmos Chiu:]

Of course. Maybe more of an accounting question here based on the energy front. Early last year, WTI was quite negative and as a result, I think Franco-Nevada did about a $200 million write down on the energy portfolio, maybe a bit premature at this point in time. But, when would you start considering - taking a look at that, I guess, value of your energy portfolio and potentially kind of writing it back up?

[Sandip Rana:]

Hey, Cosmo, Sandip here.

[Cosmos Chiu:]

Hi, Sandip.

[Sandip Rana:]

Hey. We look at it every quarter as we're required to under accounting rules. The big trigger for us will be that sustained capital spend, as Jason alluded to, the spending by operators on the well drilling, especially in the United States, if that really comes back at significant levels, we'll take a look at it. But I wouldn't expect a reversal in the near term.

[Cosmos Chiu:]

Got it. Maybe switching gears a little bit on Condestable, I just want to get a better understanding of the buyback or buy down right here. My understanding is that if it were to get exercised, say tomorrow, which I know, Eaun you said it's very restricted in the first year. But just as an example, if it gets exercised tomorrow then really, what happens is that, I would have to figure out the value of 25%, of what that's worth and then say over 15 years, because in your presentation, it says 15 plus years. And if I were to come to a value, and I did yesterday and my note of, say $90 million, based on spot. We essentially have to add that $90 million to $119 million, that they have to pay you. So over $200 million or something whereby you paid $165 million for. I guess my question is, is my understanding correct or is my concept here correct? And number two, if that's the case, then as the conclusion that it would be fairly expensive for the operator to buy it back, is that correct as well?

[Eaun Gray:]

Yeah. Hi, Cosmos? So the exact buyback amount is $118.75 million. And yes, they would have to deliver that value of gold to us. It would be subject to the same 20% transfer rights or delivery costs for those ounces. So you would net that off. And yes, it would be 25% stream would then commence immediately. And so you'd have to value that. So I think you're looking at it the right way. But perhaps we just need to count the 20% transfer price on what gets delivered as part of the buyback?

[Cosmos Chiu:]

For sure. And then maybe as a follow up here. Buy downs, I think Franco-Nevada never really liked to dabble in buy downs in the past. And I'm sure, that's not ideal at this point in time as well. But given the current dynamics of the environment, is this now sort of like a ticket to entry? Should we look at it that way or is it just on a case-by-case basis?

[Paul Brink:]

Though, I don't think so Cosmos there are certain circumstances here, which made it particularly important in terms of having this as a feature that was salient. And so first optionality is key. And we have the full land package, which is really important. The stream in its residual amount of 25% is actually meaningful equivalent of net smelter returns. So it's sized such that our optionality is right over time, and we're not giving up too much of that. So we have to balance that out, versus what the operator is looking for. You have seen more of these things. But certainly not something we strive to do.

[Cosmos Chiu:]

Of course, thanks a lot. Those are the questions I have. Thanks a lot, once again.

[Operator:]

Thank you. The next question comes from Greg Barnes at TD Securities. Please go ahead.

[Greg Barnes:]

Thank you, Sandip, just trying to understand what we should be thinking about Hemlo now. You said we should expect lower revenues in 2021. Is there any way to give us some kind of framework we should think about going forward?

[Sandip Rana:]

So I will give you a range Greg. I think, for - and it'll be a wide range, but I think between 20,000 and 30,000 GEOs for 2021, based on current commodity prices, and what we know what the mine plan at Hemlo for Interlink it'll be in that range. I know it's a wide range, but that's what I can tell you at this stage.

[Greg Barnes:]

And do you have enough visibility to guess, I suppose what happens post-2021?

[Sandip Rana:]

We do. It will tail off over time. And I think 2021-2022 will be similar in terms of production on our claims. And then starting 2023, it'll start to tail off and carry on every year at a lower rate.

[Greg Barnes:]

And how big will be the tail off?

[Sandip Rana:]

At these prices, I would estimate about 10,000 GEOs a year.

[Greg Barnes:]

Thank you. That's it for me.

[Operator:]

Thank you. The next question comes from Carey MacRury at Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead.

[Carey MacRury:]

Good morning, everyone. Maybe in a similar vein, Sandip, you mentioned McCreedy West production going through 2026. And I know your guidance for 2021 is lower than 2020. But just on that particular stream, what we should expect maybe over there. Is there a number we can use over the five-year period?

[Sandip Rana:]

Sure so I think for 2020, we did about 21,000 GEOs. We'll do half of that for 2021, that's our estimate. And we see that just being carried through to 2026 at this stage.

[Carey MacRury:]

Okay, great. And then maybe two more questions. So I guess on Gold Quarry, its transition from the minimum, just wondering, is that something that was planned or sort of what - how that came about? And secondly, on Antapaccay obviously a record quarter. Was some of that sort of carry through from Q2, Q3, or is that relating to Q4 production?

[Paul Brink:]

Sure. So on Gold Quarry, yes, the annual minimum is 11,250. We did expect that to drop off starting in 2022. So it's a year ahead of schedule. So we did about 6,000 GEOs. We'll do about 6,000 for 2021. And then, post-2021 right now, our estimate is 1,350 going forward. However, the caveat with that is how the reserves change at Gold Quarry. So there's certainly backs that if they get included, the reserves will increase when our minimum will go back up. So those are the numbers at this stage. But as we get more information from the operator, the minimum could change. And then with respect to - sorry on Antapaccay, yes, it's had some carryover of deliveries from Q3 or production from Q3 into Q4.

[Carey MacRury:]

Okay, great. And then maybe just one question on the new stream, I'm not going to try to pronouncing through. But just thinking about the mine like, are you guys talking about a sort of 15-year sort of planning mine life? But based on the resource base, it looks like there's more than 40 years there. And obviously, it looks like it's still open for exploration. So I'm just trying to understand the context around 15 years in terms of mine life potential?

[Eaun Gray:]

Eaun here. Yes, there is a very large resource base there. It's one of the things that we really like about the asset. In terms of the immediate mine life, obviously, you have to look at what is highest level of confidence around it, in terms of that resource, which we provided. And so that's how we come up with that. We think there will be very long and fruitful mine life. The asset has been operating now in some capacity for over 50 years. And continued good drill results. So how we look at it, we do see the potential for life well beyond that.

[Carey MacRury:]

That's it for me. Thanks, everyone.

[Operator:]

Thank you. The next question comes from Brian MacArthur at Raymond James. Please go ahead.

[Brian MacArthur:]

Hi. Good morning. A lot of my questions have been answered, but maybe go into another stream here. Just on the restructuring of Sabodala, you talked about 105,750 cumulative. Is that from September 21? Or is that like day one? Exactly how that one work now going forward over the next number of years? And then what's the 6% true-up based on, the time period now? Or what you would have seen before?

[Eaun Gray:]

Yes. So what happens with Sabodala is there's a fixed delivery profile, which continues as outlined. There's quite a bit of detail in the MD&A. So they continue to deliver through to that total ounce threshold. And at the end of that threshold, you have to look and say, okay, how much actually came from Sabodala versus if you assume the 6%, which was this is what the stream went to anyway, versus what came from elsewhere, the Massawa. And then effectively, what would happen is if there was a lot of displacement for Massawa, which is likely that we will go on hiatus and the 6% won't start again, until it caught up to that cumulative amount with production from Sabodala. I can talk about it more detail offline as well if it would be helpful.

[Brian MacArthur:]

Okay, maybe I'll do that. Thank you very much.

[Operator:]

. Next question comes from Tanya Jakusconek at Scotiabank. Please go ahead.

[Tanya Jakusconek:]

Yes. Good morning, everybody. There's a couple of questions. I'm going to start on Antapaccay, if I could. And just turning on to the Coroccohuayco project, the scope and the timing. I just wanted ask, number one, what changed there? And number two, is it still included in your five-year guidance? I think it was last year.

[Paul Brink:]

Hey, Tanya, it's Paul. So Coroccohuayco at Antapaccay is an additional deposit. It's a deposit. It's about three quarters the size of Antapaccay itself. Glencore had been planning to develop. They plan their work on was a combination of , mostly on the ground, the limited footprint. They have had some success with the community there. Believe now they can build a mine with a bigger footprint and so can make it largely an open pit mine. So they are back to the drawing board on the asset, looking at that bigger mine plan. So there's good and bad news there. It means over time, more metal. They have moved it back in terms of the timing, expect it's more likely to contribute at the back end of the current mine plant.

[Tanya Jakusconek:]

Okay, so it's not in your five-year guidance?

[Paul Brink:]

It doesn't impact our five-year guidance. We expect at all that production is from out of .

[Tanya Jakusconek:]

Okay, and then maybe just turning over back to Condestable guidance that you provided this morning, does the higher end of the production guidance range assume expansion to just 8,400 tons a day or 10,000 tons a day?

[Eaun Gray:]

Hi, Tanya, it's Eaun. Yes, so the bottom end of the range is closer to the 8,400 tons per day and the 10,000, I believe, would be more towards the middle end of the range. As I said we see good potential there to increase further with time given the size of the overall resource.

[Tanya Jakusconek:]

Okay, perfect, thanks. And then just turning onto to the energy portion, I'm just trying to understand a little bit your guidance for 2021. We have seen significant - you're showing significant growth from existing assets despite the big CapEx cuts that we've seen and most operators seem to be aiming for flat rather than growing production. So what are you assuming in terms of operator CapEx to increases relative to your 2021 budget?

[Eaun Gray:]

Tanya, for 2021, we're assuming a modest improvement over what we saw this year. There was a lag in 2020. If you recall at the beginning of the year, oil prices were still reasonably strong and operators were still carrying out a fairly robust level of drilling. And so what happened is 2020 had kind of call it half of a normal year and then half of a very depressed year. For 2021, we're assuming a continued rebound, still not to the levels that we saw, though in sort of pre-COVID, pre-OPEC shock levels.

[Tanya Jakusconek:]

Okay. And then maybe just transaction wise, you talked about what you're seeing out there in terms of acquisition, finance, development and existing royalties. Maybe just sort of the size of the transactions, number one. And number two, can we see you do more in the oil and gas space?

[Paul Brink:]

So, Tanya, the - in terms of the pipeline, it's a good pipeline. As Eaun mentioned, the combination there of new mines and acquisitions, so say those were most of the themes. On the energy side, very happy to add the Haynesville here. We continue to look, although I'd say in terms of what's active at the moment, most likely precious metal and also other metals, is the high likelihood through this year.

[Tanya Jakusconek:]

And are we looking still in the range of a couple hundred million to 500 million range?

[Paul Brink:]

Yes, I'd say everything in the pipeline is meaningful to move the needle, but also not so big that it would affect also for the assets that increase our diversification.

[Tanya Jakusconek:]

Okay, well, thank you very much.

[Operator:]

Thank you. There are no further questions. I will now turn the call back over to Candida Hayden for closing remarks.

[Candida Hayden:]

Thank you, Joanna. We expect to release our first quarter 2021 results after market close on May 5th with a conference call held the following morning. Thank you for your interest in Franco-Nevada. Goodbye.

[Operator:]

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call for today. We thank you for participating and we ask that you please disconnect your lines.