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• If you are wondering whether Agnico Eagle Mines at US$218.75 is priced for opportunity or already reflects the story, the starting point is to understand what current investors are paying for.

• The stock has posted returns of 4.9% over the last 7 days, 5.4% over the last 30 days, 28.3% year to date and 87.8% over the last year. This naturally raises questions about how much of this is already built into the share price.

• Recent coverage of the company has focused on its position in the precious metals sector and how investor interest in this space relates to Agnico Eagle Mines as a large producer. News flow has also highlighted how gold focused miners are being reassessed by the market, which helps frame these recent price moves.

• Agnico Eagle Mines currently holds a 2/6 valuation score, reflecting that it screens as undervalued on 2 of 6 checks. The rest of this article will walk through the main valuation methods used to reach that result, and will point you to a more complete way of thinking about value at the end.

Agnico Eagle Mines scores just 2/6 on our valuation checks. See what other red flags we found in the full valuation breakdown.

A Discounted Cash Flow, or DCF, model estimates what a business could be worth today by projecting its future cash flows and discounting them back to a single present value figure.

For Agnico Eagle Mines, the model used is a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach, based on cash flow projections in $. The latest twelve month free cash flow sits at about $4.2b. Analyst inputs and extrapolated estimates suggest annual free cash flows in the range of roughly $5.5b to $6.8b in the coming years, with a projected free cash flow of $5.5b in 2030. Beyond the explicit analyst window, Simply Wall St extrapolates the remaining years in the 10 year projection.

When all of those projected cash flows are discounted back, the DCF model arrives at an estimated intrinsic value of $182.30 per share, compared with the current share price of $218.75. This implies the stock screens as around 20.0% overvalued on this method.

Result: OVERVALUED

Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests Agnico Eagle Mines may be overvalued by 20.0%. Discover 58 high quality undervalued stocks or create your own screener to find better value opportunities.

Head to the Valuation section of our Company Report for more details on how we arrive at this Fair Value for Agnico Eagle Mines.

For a profitable business, the P/E ratio is a useful shorthand for what investors are paying today for each dollar of earnings. It helps you compare how the market is pricing earnings across similar companies without needing complex models.

What counts as a “normal” or “fair” P/E depends on how the market views a company’s growth prospects and risk. Higher expected growth or lower perceived risk can support a higher P/E, while slower growth or higher risk usually points to a lower multiple.

Agnico Eagle Mines currently trades on a P/E of 24.56x. That sits above the Metals and Mining industry average P/E of about 22.77x, but below the peer group average of 30.89x. To refine this, Simply Wall St uses a proprietary “Fair Ratio,” which estimates the P/E that might be reasonable given the company’s earnings growth profile, industry, profit margins, market cap and risk factors. This tailored Fair Ratio of 24.84x is often more informative than a simple comparison with peers or the broad industry because it is built around Agnico Eagle Mines own characteristics rather than broad group averages.

The current P/E of 24.56x is very close to the Fair Ratio of 24.84x, suggesting the shares look about right on this metric.

Result: ABOUT RIGHT

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Earlier it was mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation. This is where Narratives come in, giving you a simple story-driven framework that connects your view of Agnico Eagle Mines to a forecast and then to a fair value you can compare with today’s share price.

A Narrative on Simply Wall St is your own story for the company, where you spell out what you think is reasonable for future revenue, earnings and margins. The platform then turns that into a financial forecast and an implied fair value rather than leaving those assumptions hidden.

Because Narratives live inside the Community page used by millions of investors, they are designed to be accessible. You can quickly see how your view of Agnico Eagle Mines compares with others and use the fair value versus current price gap to help decide whether the stock appears attractive, fully priced or expensive for your goals.

These Narratives also update when new information arrives, such as earnings or company news. For example, if one investor builds a very optimistic Agnico Eagle Mines Narrative around a fair value of US$333 and another uses a more cautious fair value near US$81, both are transparently refreshed as the data behind their stories changes over time.

For Agnico Eagle Mines, however, we will make it really easy for you with previews of two leading Agnico Eagle Mines Narratives:

🐂 Agnico Eagle Mines Bull Case

Fair value in this bullish Narrative: US$221.67 per share.

Gap to that fair value versus the last close of US$218.75: around 1.3% below the Narrative fair value.

Assumed annual revenue growth: 12.38%.

• Analysts in this Narrative see revenue rising alongside higher assumed profit margins and a slightly higher future P/E multiple to support the US$221.67 fair value.

• They factor in revenue of US$11.0b and earnings of US$3.4b by 2028, with earnings per share of US$6.91 and an assumed P/E of 26.1x on those earnings.

• The view leans on continued project delivery, reserve expansion and cost efficiency while also flagging gold price sensitivity, project execution and permitting as key risks to monitor.

🐻 Agnico Eagle Mines Bear Case

Fair value in this cautious Narrative: US$136.62 per share.

Gap to that fair value versus the last close of US$218.75: around 37.2% above the Narrative fair value.

Assumed annual revenue growth: 4.34%.

• This Narrative leans on more conservative assumptions, including lower revenue growth, margin pressure and a reduced future P/E multiple of 16.25x, to arrive at the US$136.62 fair value.

• It reflects concerns that a large project pipeline, higher real interest rates and potential softening in gold demand could weigh on revenue, earnings and the scope for capital returns.

• At the same time, it acknowledges the company’s substantial project depth, balance sheet strength and long mine lives, which could challenge a more cautious fair value if execution and gold pricing prove more supportive than assumed.

In short, these Narratives frame a reasonable range of outcomes for Agnico Eagle Mines. The key for you is to decide which assumptions around growth, margins and valuation multiples feel closer to your own view of the company and the gold sector.

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Michael Burry, most famous for shorting the housing market ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, said that ‘Anthropic is eating Palantir’s lunch’ in a now-deleted post on X (1).

Since sharing that thought on April 8, Palantir has fallen rapidly — over 13% in the last five days. Although, the stock has recovered slightly after President Donald Trump made a Truth Social post in support of the company on April 10.

Burry first announced he had put options on Palantir in the fall of 2025, which allow holders to sell a stock for a set price as long as it is sold by a certain date. A put is helpful if you think a stock is going to crash soon. In his newest Substack post, he says he’s maintained puts on Palantir ever since, and he’s not planning on selling them despite Trump’s recent posts (2).

Here are some reasons he might be shorting the company and why he thinks Anthropic is a better bet.

Elsewhere in his deleted post, Burry said, “Anthropic went from $9B to $30B in months, it took $PLTR 20 years to get to $5 Billion.” He says that’s because Anthropic’s product is the “easier, cheaper, intuitive solution for businesses.”

In comparison, he says that Palantir’s government contracts don’t set them up for the same quick growth. His post says that “PLTR can have government, which is low margin and small.”

He also says “Anthropic is taking 73% of all new enterprise spending per Ramp.” But that’s not quite accurate: The Ramp report says that 73.3% of new businesses choose Anthropic over OpenAI when they spend on AI for the first time (3). The cited numbers don’t include companies that chose other AI options, such as Google or xAI.

According to Ramp’s report, OpenAI is still the company with the most adopted model overall, with 34.4% of U.S. businesses having a paid subscription with the company. Anthropic is in second place at 24.4%.

Still, Anthropic’s comfortable second-place seat, along with new companies showing preference for it over the market leader, means that the company is in a good place to take over more of the AI market. This is especially true now that it’s announced Project Glasswing (4), which is an initiative to use the company’s new Claude model, Claude Mythos, to protect against AI-driven cyberattacks.

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Burry’s been betting against Palantir long before Anthropic rose to its current place in the AI market. On October 30, Burry posted “Sometimes, we see bubbles (5),” which many understood as a. dig at AI. On November 3, Scion Asset Management, Burry’s hedge fund, filed a form with the SEC showing puts against both Palantir and NVIDIA, another huge player in the AI space (6).

Given how highly he praised Anthropic, he might not be as bearish on AI as a whole anymore. But he doesn’t appear to have changed his mind on Palantir and NVIDIA. In addition to his ongoing puts on Palantir, Burry has warned against going all in on NVDA stock as recently as February.

In a February 21 post on X (7), Burry said, “In the 1920s there was a radio mania focused mostly on one stock, RCA. The stock fell peak to trough about 98% during early 1930s, and yet radio’s growth never slowed for many more decades.” He ends the post with “$NVDA,” implying that he thinks something similar might happen to the chip company soon.

Anthropic isn’t publicly traded, so neither you nor Burry can buy stocks in it at the moment. But it doesn’t seem like Burry reveres some of the other big, publicly traded AI names currently in the market. If you trust Burry’s perspective, you might prefer to shift your portfolio away from these companies.

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• Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) is integrating Lucinity’s AI agent driven technology into its Financial Crime and Compliance Management platform.

• The update brings explainable, workflow guiding AI agents to financial crime investigations and compliance operations for banks and other financial institutions.

Oracle, trading at $138.09, has seen mixed share performance, with a 29.4% decline year to date but a 49.5% return over 3 years and 87.1% over 5 years. In that context, this move into AI powered financial crime compliance adds another pillar to the company’s broader enterprise AI push across HR, finance, supply chain and customer experience.

For investors watching NYSE:ORCL, the Lucinity integration highlights how Oracle is aiming to deepen its role in regulated, high risk functions where explainability and audit trails matter. As financial institutions assess different AI compliance options, this kind of embedded, case management focused capability may influence how Oracle’s full stack offering is viewed alongside other large vendors and specialist providers.

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For Oracle, bringing Lucinity’s AI agent driven tools into its Financial Crime and Compliance Management platform is less about a single product feature and more about how the leadership team is trying to position the company in high stakes, regulated workflows. It ties together Oracle’s push into agent based automation in Fusion applications with a concrete use case where explainability, audit trails, and case management are central. That can matter for leadership credibility, because it shows the AI story is not only anchored on data centers and infrastructure spend, but also on embedded, workflow specific capabilities that banks and regulators care about. For you, the key question is whether Oracle’s leaders can align this type of targeted AI deployment with the heavy AI infrastructure buildout and restructuring that are already testing capital allocation and execution discipline.

• The Lucinity integration supports the existing narrative that Oracle is tying AI deeper into mission critical enterprise workflows, adding a concrete example in financial crime compliance on top of broader agent based apps in HR, finance, and CX.

• At the same time, expanding AI agents into regulated financial services adds complexity and heightens expectations on reliability and governance, which could challenge the narrative if leadership does not match AI ambition with risk controls and compliance focused investment.

• The narrative places heavy weight on AI infrastructure, data centers, and Remaining Performance Obligations, while this financial crime use case highlights application level differentiation and explainable AI that are not fully reflected in that story.

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• ⚠️ Analysts have flagged that debt is not well covered by operating cash flow, so each new AI driven product area, including Lucinity based compliance tools, adds to the execution bar for leadership that is already committing to large AI infrastructure spending.

• ⚠️ By embedding AI agents into sensitive financial crime workflows, Oracle increases reputational and regulatory risk if explainability, audit trails, or model behavior fall short of expectations compared with peers such as Microsoft, Amazon, or SAP that also sell to large banks.

• 🎁 The move strengthens Oracle’s position in regulated financial services, where explainable AI, human in the loop case management, and unified platforms can make it harder for banks to switch vendors once AI agents are wired into day to day investigations.

• 🎁 If Oracle can show that Lucinity powered agents improve investigator productivity and reduce manual work without sacrificing governance, it supports the broader reward case that AI agents in Oracle’s stack can drive operational efficiency and stickier multi year contracts.

From here, watch for concrete proof points such as how many existing FCCM customers adopt Lucinity powered AI agents, any public case studies from large banks, and how often Oracle’s leadership highlights compliance outcomes on earnings calls. It is also worth tracking whether Oracle reports cross sell between FCCM, Fusion Agentic Applications, and its AI infrastructure, and how this compares with offerings from Microsoft, Amazon, and other financial crime software specialists. Any commentary on model governance, explainability, or regulator engagement will help you judge whether Oracle’s leadership is treating this as a higher risk, higher scrutiny use of AI or just another feature rollout.

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This week, the AI company Anthropic said it had created an AI model so powerful that, out of a sense of overwhelming responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public.

The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned the heads of major banks for a chat about the model, Mythos. The Reform UK MP Danny Kruger wrote a letter to the government urging it to “engage with AI firm Anthropic whose new frontier model Claude Mythos could present catastrophic cybersecurity risks to the UK”. X went wild.

Others were more sceptical, including the noted AI critic Gary Marcus, who said: “Dario [Amodei] has far more technical chops than Sam [Altman], but seems to have graduated from the same school of hype and exaggeration,” referring to the CEOs of Anthropic and its rival, OpenAI.

It is unclear if Anthropic has built the machine god. What is more apparent is that the San Francisco startup widely seen as the “responsible” AI company is brilliant at marketing.

In the past months, Anthropic has enjoyed a 10,000-word profile in the New Yorker, two pieces in the Wall Street Journal, and the front cover of Time magazine, on which Amodei’s face was emblazoned, movie-poster style, above the Pentagon and the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

Amodei and Anthropic’s co-founder, Jack Clark, appeared on two separate New York Times podcasts in February, chewing over questions such as whether their machine was conscious, and if it might soon “rip through the economy”. The company’s “resident philosopher” has spoken to the WSJ about whether Claude – a commercial product being used to trade cryptocurrency and designate missile targets – has a “sense of self”.

This has all come amid a dustup between Anthropic and the US department of defence in which Anthropic, despite creating the AI tool used by the Pentagon to strike Iran, has managed to come out looking far better than OpenAI, which offered to help the US military do the same thing but with – maybe – fewer guardrails.

Its media lead, Danielle Ghiglieri, has notched the wins on LinkedIn. “I’m endlessly proud to work at Anthropic,” she said of the company’s Time cover, tagging the journalists involved in a post about the “mad dash” to get the story over the line.

Watching a CBS 60 Minutes segment featuring Amodei “was one of those pinch-me moments,” she said. “What made it meaningful wasn’t just the platform. It was seeing the story we wanted to tell actually come through.”

Of the New Yorker profile, by the journalist Gideon Lewis-Kraus, she wrote: “I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous for our first meeting in person … working with someone of Gideon’s calibre means being pushed to articulate ideas you’re still forming, and being OK with that discomfort.”

(“I bet that’s what they all say about you,” said my editor.)

Other tech PRs have taken notice.

“They are clearly having a moment right now but companies building technology that will change the world deserve equal scrutiny,” said one. “They accidentally leaked their own source code last week, then this week they claim stewardship over cyber threats with a new powerful model that only they control. Any other big tech firm would be ridiculed.”

Anthropic did accidentally release part of Claude’s internal source code at the beginning of April. “No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,” it said.

What does this all mean about Anthropic’s undoubtedly powerful Mythos?

The model’s capacities were not “substantiated,” said Dr Heidy Khlaaf, the chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute. “Releasing a marketing post with purposely vague language that obscures evidence … brings into question if they are trying to garner further investment without scrutiny.”

“Mythos is a real development and Anthropic was right to treat it seriously,” said Jameison O’Reilly, an expert in offensive cybersecurity. But, he said, some of Anthropic’s claims, such as that it found thousands of “zero-day vulnerabilities” in major operating systems, were not that significant to real-world cybersecurity considerations.

A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw in software or hardware unknown to its developers.

“We have spent over 10 years gaining authorised access to hundreds of organisations – banks, governments, critical infrastructure, global enterprises,” said O’Reilly. “In those 10 years, across hundreds of engagements, the number of times we needed a zero-day vulnerability to achieve our objective was vanishingly small.”

Other reasons may have contributed to Anthropic’s decision not to release Mythos.

The company has limited resources, and appears to be struggling to offer enough computing capacity to allow all its subscribers to use its models. It has introduced usage caps on the wildly popular Claude. Recently, it said users would have to purchase extra capacity on top of their subscriptions in order to run third-party tools, such as OpenClaw. At this point, it may simply not have the infrastructure to support the release of a hyped-up new creation.

Like OpenAI, Anthropic is in a race to raise billions of dollars and capture a market – still ill-defined – of people who might lean on its chatbots as friends, romantic partners or deeply personalised assistants, and of companies that might use them to replace human employees.

But differences in these products are marginal and impressionistic, mostly down to hard-to-quantify attributes such as “sense of self” and “soul” – or rather, what passes for these in an AI agent. The battle is for hearts and minds.

“Mythos is a strategic announcement to show that they’re open for business,” said Khlaaf, saying Anthropic’s release limitation prevented independent experts from evaluating the company’s claims.

She suggested we may be “seeing the very same bait and switch playbook that was used by OpenAI, where safety is a PR tool to gain public trust before profits are prioritised” and: “Anthropic publicity has managed to better obscure this switch than its rivals.”

Readers hoping to buy M Winkworth PLC (LON:WINK) for its dividend will need to make their move shortly, as the stock is about to trade ex-dividend. The ex-dividend date is commonly two business days before the record date, which is the cut-off date for shareholders to be present on the company’s books to be eligible for a dividend payment. The ex-dividend date is of consequence because whenever a stock is bought or sold, the trade can take two business days or more to settle. Meaning, you will need to purchase M Winkworth’s shares before the 16th of April to receive the dividend, which will be paid on the 14th of May.

The company’s next dividend payment will be UK£0.033 per share. Last year, in total, the company distributed UK£0.13 to shareholders. Based on the last year’s worth of payments, M Winkworth stock has a trailing yield of around 7.8% on the current share price of UK£1.70. Dividends are an important source of income to many shareholders, but the health of the business is crucial to maintaining those dividends. We need to see whether the dividend is covered by earnings and if it’s growing.

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If a company pays out more in dividends than it earned, then the dividend might become unsustainable – hardly an ideal situation. Last year M Winkworth paid out 102% of its profits as dividends to shareholders, suggesting the dividend is not well covered by earnings.

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Companies with consistently growing earnings per share generally make the best dividend stocks, as they usually find it easier to grow dividends per share. Investors love dividends, so if earnings fall and the dividend is reduced, expect a stock to be sold off heavily at the same time. With that in mind, we’re encouraged by the steady growth at M Winkworth, with earnings per share up 4.6% on average over the last five years.

The main way most investors will assess a company’s dividend prospects is by checking the historical rate of dividend growth. Since the start of our data, 10 years ago, M Winkworth has lifted its dividend by approximately 7.3% a year on average. It’s encouraging to see the company lifting dividends while earnings are growing, suggesting at least some corporate interest in rewarding shareholders.

Is M Winkworth an attractive dividend stock, or better left on the shelf? Earnings per share have grown modestly, and last year M Winkworth paid out a low percentage of its cash flow. However, its dividend payments were not well covered by profits. Overall it doesn’t look like the most suitable dividend stock for a long-term buy and hold investor.

With that in mind though, if the poor dividend characteristics of M Winkworth don’t faze you, it’s worth being mindful of the risks involved with this business. In terms of investment risks, we’ve identified 3 warning signs with M Winkworth and understanding them should be part of your investment process.

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Stride (LRN) recently reported quarterly results with revenue up 7.5% year on year, an earnings beat, and guidance ahead of expectations. The stock has climbed sharply since that announcement.

See our latest analysis for Stride.

That earnings surprise and upbeat guidance have arrived after a powerful run, with the share price at US$90.21 and a 90 day share price return of 30.78%, even as the 1 year total shareholder return is 33.08% lower and the 5 year total shareholder return is 178.94% higher. This suggests momentum has revived recently after a weak year for long term holders.

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With the shares already up strongly and trading at US$90.21, the key question now is whether Stride’s earnings surprise and guidance leave room for mispricing, or if the market is already paying up for future growth.

According to the most followed narrative on Stride, a fair value of $51 sits well below the recent $90.21 close, which puts the current optimism into sharp focus and frames the latest earnings surprise against a much lower long term anchor.

Stride represents a bet on the evolution of education itself. By aligning learning with employment and treating education as a lifelong process rather than a one-time event, Stride has positioned itself beyond the volatility of pandemic-era remote learning.

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Curious how this view arrives at a much lower fair value? The narrative leans heavily on measured revenue growth, steady margins, and a restrained future earnings multiple. The tension between a disciplined model and a fast moving share price is where the story gets interesting.

Result: Fair Value of $51 (OVERVALUED)

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However, this thesis still faces pressure points, including regulatory shifts in virtual schooling and any sustained setback in career learning or adult education demand.

Find out about the key risks to this Stride narrative.

The user narrative pins Stride’s fair value at $51, which implies the stock is 76.9% overvalued at $90.21. Yet on earnings, the picture flips. With a P/E of 11.9x versus a fair ratio of 17.8x, peers at 18.8x, and the wider Consumer Services group at 17.8x, the question is whether the market is being too harsh or the narrative is simply more cautious.

See what the numbers say about this price — find out in our valuation breakdown.

With sentiment split between overvaluation concerns and a low P/E, it helps to test the numbers yourself and move quickly while the story is still fresh. To see what the market is optimistic about, review the company’s 4 key rewards

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Study senior author Dr. Mohamed Abazeed

Image source: Northwestern University

In this study, several open-source AI models consistently produced summaries that were more comprehensive than physician-written versions, particularly in capturing molecular and genetic findings that are critical for treatment decisions. 

“As cancer care becomes increasingly complex, the burden of synthesizing complex reports is growing rapidly,” said senior study author Dr. Mohamed Abazeed, chair and professor of radiation oncology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “What we’re seeing is that AI can help ensure critical pathological and genomic details are consistently captured — not as a replacement for physicians, but as a tool to augment clinical decision-making.” 

The Northwestern investigators analyzed 94 de-identified pathology reports from lung cancer patients. These reports included detailed text describing: 

• Histopathological findings (microscopic tumor characteristics) 
• Immunohistochemical results (protein expression testing) 
• Molecular and genetic data relevant to treatment 

The AI models analyzed the text content of these reports and generated structured summaries. 

The AI-generated summaries were compared to clinical summaries previously written by physicians. A panel of oncologists assessed each summary for accuracy, completeness, conciseness and potential clinical risk. Across models, AI-generated summaries were consistently rated as more complete, with the largest differences observed in the inclusion of molecular and genomic findings. 

“If AI can reliably synthesize these reports, clinicians can review key findings more efficiently, important genetic details are less likely to be overlooked and documentation becomes more standardized,” said study co-author Troy Teo, instructor of radiation oncology at Feinberg. “This could help physicians focus more on patient care.” 

Goodbye Swan Vesta, hello Cartier. Matchboxes are the latest home accessory to get a luxury makeover – and some of the price tags are striking.

At the upmarket department store chain Selfridges, sales of posh matchboxes are up 121% year-on-year and it said they were “the must-have home accessory for 2026”. The store has more than doubled its range to meet demand, selling over 100 styles at prices ranging from £5 to more than £230.

At the most expensive end of its range is a set of three paper and card tubes, decorated with panthers and containing 80 matches each. Designed by Cartier, it retails at £235.

Jo Laing, who designs and sells ceramic-topped matchboxes, has seen sales rise 60% year on year and her work is now stocked in Harrods. She said they “sell out so quickly we struggle to keep them in stock”. Her reusable limited edition boxes retail for £70.

The matchbox took off in the late 1800s when manufacturers realised that every box could be an advert and it became an unexpected art form, with colourful labels featuring everything from political messages to product marketing.

At the same time, more opulent matchboxes started to spring up in silver, gold and ceramics. But since the smoking ban they had fallen out of favour.

While some of the new generation of designer matchboxes seem to be aimed at those with money to burn, experts said the trend reflected tightening budgets, with shoppers turning to them as way to spark a little joy.

They might not have the budget for a posh candle, but can stretch to fancy matches instead.

Bia Bezamat, cultural insights director at Kantar, said: “There’s a sustained trend for ‘little treats’ … It’s a response to cost of living pressures: people want small, affordable pockets of joy to brighten their day.”

Claire Dickinson, senior strategist at consumer trend forecaster WGSN Interiors, said they were “the homeware equivalent of the lipstick effect”, a theory that during economic downturns, consumers swap expensive luxuries such as designer bags for smaller and more affordable indulgences.

She said they reflect the rise of “beautilities”: practical objects designed to be seen and enjoyed.

Henrietta Klug, head of home at Selfridges, said the once-functional object was now “re-emerging as an object of desire” that took pride of place in people’s homes, as well as on the tables of some of London’s most stylish bars and restaurants.

Five of the most expensive matchboxes

Debonnaire silver matchbox, £843

Diabolo de Cartier graphic-print matchboxes set of three, £225

Panthere de Cartier graphic-print matchboxes set of three, £235

Jo Laing ceramic moon matchbox, £70

Refill for L’Objet matchbox, £25