Yahoo Finance Sandstorm Gold (SAND) Posts Y/Y Preliminary Q1 Revenue Decline
Sandstorm Gold Ltd. SAND announced preliminary revenues and cash operating margins for the first quarter of 2024. Revenues in the quarter fell 2.7% year over year. The company’s cash operating margins moved up 7.8%.
SAND sold nearly 20,300 attributable gold equivalent ounces (GEOs) in the quarter. This marks a 28.4% decline from the 28,368 ounces of GEOs sold in first-quarter 2023. Sandstorm Gold delivered preliminary revenues of $42.8 million, down from the prior-year quarter’s $44 million.
SAND reported a preliminary cost of sales (excluding depletion) of $5.7 million, lower than the $6.5 million reported in the first quarter of 2023. The cash operating margin was $1,781 per attributable GEO in the quarter under review, higher than the prior-year quarter's $1,652.
The company will report its first-quarter results for 2024 on May 2, 2024.
At the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, Sandstorm Gold announced expectations of attributable gold equivalent ounces of 75,000-90,000 for 2024. Within the next five years, the company anticipates producing 125,000 attributable gold-equivalent ounces.
Price Performance
Shares of the company have lost 11.9% in the past year against the industry’s growth of 2.2%.
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Zacks Rank & Stocks to Consider
Sandstorm Gold currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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