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Silver stocks’ latest earnings season wrapping up in mid-May revealed whether fundamentals justify big upside.
This table summarizes the operational and financial highlights from the SIL top 15 during Q1’22.

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Overall the SIL top 15 only averaged 37.1% of their Q1’22 revenues coming from silver! That’s on the lower side of the 24-quarter range running from 51.4% to 34.2%. Traders must realize SIL is more levered to gold than silver.
Long-term silver-stock price levels ultimately depend on miners’ profitability, which is directly driven by the difference between prevailing silver prices and silver-mining costs. In unit terms these are generally inversely proportional to silver production. That’s because silver mines’ total operating costs are largely fixed during planning stages, their designed throughputs limit the amounts of silver-bearing ore they can process.
Cash costs are the classic measure of silver-mining costs, including all cash expenses necessary to mine each ounce of silver. But they are misleading as a true cost measure, excluding the big capital needed to explore for silver deposits and build mines. So cash costs are best viewed as survivability acid-test levels for the major silver miners. They illuminate the minimum silver prices required to keep the mines running.
The SIL top 15’s average AISCs climbed a comparatively-tame 5.3% YoY, but hit $15.08 which was the third-highest on record after Q3’21’s $15.78 and Q3’18’s $15.36.
The bottom line is silver miners reported a decent first quarter. While their silver-and-gold production fell, that mostly resulted from COVID-19-omicron disruptions to operations. Plenty of silver miners expect to see improving outputs as 2022 marches on. More ounces to bear the big fixed costs of mining ought to lower unit costs, boosting profitability. But raging price inflation could dampen the positive effects of that.
 
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Se ci fosse onestà intellettuale, qualcuno dovrebbe calcolare quanto indice la guerra e quanto incidono le sanzioni + contro-sanzioni sull'economia.

Dopo la forte accelerazione del 6,6% nel 2021, il Prodotto interno lordo dell'Italia viene "colpito dalla guerra", con una crescita in calo al 2,5% nel 2022 e all'1,2% nel 2023: è quanto scrive l'Ocse nelle Prospettive Economiche (Economic Outlook) presentate oggi a Parigi.
La guerra russa in Ucraina ha causato un "marcato rallentamento della crescita", si legge nella scheda consacrata all'Italia delle Prospettive economiche dell'Ocse presentate oggi a Parigi.
 

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