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Energy Transfer has been developing the 16.5 million metric tons per annum LNG export facility and has sold most of the expected production to long-term customers, but has faced rising project costs and wants to share the risk with equity partners.

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“Our projects need to meet certain risk-return criteria, and we’re not there yet on LNG,” co-CEO Tom Long said.

“We are hoping that these equity partners will step up by the end of the year and get us to where we want this kind of risk profile, in the space we want this project,” he added.

The company earlier this year signed a non-binding agreement with MidOcean Energy to jointly develop the Lake Charles LNG export facility.

MidOcean is expected to pay for 30% of the construction costs of the facility and receive 30% of the LNG production, or roughly 5 million tons a year.

POSITIONING FOR BOOMING POWER DEMAND

Energy Transfer is also looking to position itself to further benefit from booming power demand from data centers, mulling the conversion of one of its natural gas liquids pipelines to natural gas.

Energy Transfer operates three pipelines moving natural gas liquids (NGL) out of the Permian Basin, which straddles Texas and New Mexico. Natural gas liquids such as ethane, butane and propane are used to make plastics and chemicals as well as for heating and cooking.

But moving natural gas rather than NGLs may offer considerably better returns, executives said.

“Some of the scenarios show twice the revenue with natural gas than what we might see with NGLs,” said co-CEO Mackie McCrea.

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Does your Labubu have exactly nine teeth? Are its ears narrow? Or do its body parts – eyes, feet and hands – detach from its grimacing face?

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a warning to fans of the it-dolls, stating that a burgeoning market of counterfeit Labubus could pose safety risks to young children.

The fake dolls, often called Lafufus, can pose a choking risk due to potentially detachable parts and poor-quality stitching. The ACCC said it was also concerned counterfeit products could contain unsafe levels of harmful chemicals, including lead.

“Watch out for potential safety risks associated with counterfeit or fake Labubu dolls – often called Lafufus – and keep these products away from young children,” the ACCC said in a product safety release on Wednesday.

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“Lafufu dolls may pose a safety risk to consumers, especially young children. Some Lafufus are small enough to fit entirely within the mouth of a young child, while other versions may have detachable body parts such as eyes, feet and hands, and poor stitching, which may be a choking hazard.”

The ACCC provided a few brief tips to identify a real Labubu, made by the company Pop Mart, from a fake:

• Counterfeit items could have small detachable parts like eyes, feet or hands.

• Lafufu’s could have poor stitching or use cheap fabrics.

• Authentic Labubus have exactly nine teeth. Fake items could have ears that are too wide.

• Counterfeits are often sold at much lower prices.

Genuine Labubus vary in price but start at about $32 on the Pop Mart website for a keychain plush doll. More exclusive versions can cost up to $340 for a larger doll.

New South Wales Fair Trading issued its own warning about counterfeit dolls earlier this year, saying in July that while Labubus are all the rage, an underground market was targeting desperate customers.

The agency said at the time that customers should buy them from trusted online businesses and check reviews before buying the dolls.

The NSW health department notes that even low levels of lead exposure can affect children’s mental and physical development. In adults, it can cause high blood pressure and impact kidney and brain function.

“Lead exposure in children, even at low levels, can be harmful and can result in decreased intelligence, impaired neurobehavioral development, decreased stature and growth and impaired hearing,” the department says on its website.

If you believe your child has been exposed to lead, the Sydney Children’s hospital network urges parents to remove the toy or object and call their local poisons information centre.

They can advise whether to see a doctor or present to an emergency department.

DATE

Nov. 5, 2025 at 5 p.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

Chief Executive Officer — Rene Haas

Chief Financial Officer — Jason Child

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TAKEAWAYS

Total revenue — $1.14 billion for the fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30, 2025, up 34% year over year, marking the third consecutive quarter above $1 billion and exceeding the midpoint of guidance by $75 million.

Royalty revenue — $620 million for the fiscal second quarter, up 21% year over year, driven by increased smartphone royalty rates per chip and a doubling of data center royalties.

Licensing revenue — $550 million for the fiscal second quarter, a 56% increase year over year, as customers pursued next-generation AI products; includes $515 million from license and other revenue.

Non-GAAP operating expenses — $648 million for the fiscal second quarter, up 31% year over year, reflecting expanded R&D investment and finishing slightly below company guidance.

Non-GAAP operating income — $467 million for the fiscal second quarter, up 43% year over year, resulting in a non-GAAP operating margin of 41.1%, compared to 38.6% a year ago.

Non-GAAP EPS — $0.39 for the fiscal second quarter, $0.06 above the midpoint of guidance, benefiting from higher revenue and marginally lower operating expense.

Annualized contract value (ACV) — Grew 28% year over year in the fiscal second quarter, above both historic averages and long-term targets, maintaining strong momentum after 28% growth in the prior quarter.

Strategic partnership — Announced new AI partnership with Meta to drive efficiency across cloud and edge compute platforms.

Neoverse platform — Surpassed 1 billion CPUs deployed, with business growth more than doubling year over year.

Compute Subsystem (CSS) licensing — Signed three new CSS licenses, totaling 19 licenses across 11 companies; top four Android phone vendors now shipping CSS-powered devices.

LUMIX CSS launch — Introduced the LUMIX CSS mobile platform with immediate royalty revenue from at least one early licensee.

China revenue — Approximately 22% of total sales in the fiscal second quarter, with licensing providing a greater contribution to the quarter’s outperformance than royalties.

SoftBank-related revenue — Increased to $178 million in the fiscal second quarter, up $52 million sequentially from last quarter, driven by licensing and design services.

Guidance for next quarter — Revenue forecasted at $1.225 billion (plus or minus $50 million) for the fiscal third quarter, representing approximately 25% growth; expected royalties up just over 20% year over year, and licensing up 25%-30% year over year; non-GAAP operating expense expected at $720 million; non-GAAP EPS expected at $0.41 plus or minus 4¢.

Dream Big Semiconductor acquisition — Announced intent to acquire Dream Big Semiconductor to strengthen offerings in Ethernet and RDMA controller technology for data center networking.

SUMMARY

Arm (ARM 0.34%) reported record fiscal second quarter revenue and royalty figures, citing robust demand for AI compute across edge devices and hyperscale data centers. Management highlighted that power constraints are accelerating adoption of Arm’s efficient compute platform, with CEO Rene Haas stating, “power has become the bottleneck” and positioning Arm as “about 50% more efficient than competitive solutions.” The Neoverse business more than doubled year over year, and the company launched LUMIX CSS, enabling early royalty realization. The new partnership with Meta and the planned Dream Big Semiconductor acquisition expand Arm’s product scope and addressable market. Management also noted that annualized contract value has grown “well above our usual run rate” due to strategic engagement and demand for next-generation architectures. The SoftBank-related revenue stream, combining license and funded design services, was described as “a good run rate to assume going forward,” but recognized as lower margin and subject to future product mix evolution. Demand for AI compute and related data center build-outs has grown since the $500 billion Stargate project announcement in January 2025, with infrastructure investment identified as the main gating factor for scaling revenue impact.

Management described immediate royalty revenue from LUMIX CSS as “a little ahead of what we’d expected,” enabled by pre-existing deep customer collaboration.

Arm indicated that the mix of royalty revenue from cloud and networking is trending toward 15%-20% of total royalties, up from 10% last year, with further updates expected at year-end.

Licensing revenue in China was a larger driver of outperformance than royalties, and the licensing pipeline for the remainder of the year remains strong.

Arm is accelerating R&D investment to support customer demand for next-generation architectures, compute subsystems, and potential expansion into chiplets or complete SoCs.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

Neoverse: Arm’s CPU platform targeted at data center, cloud, and infrastructure applications, prioritizing high efficiency and scalability.

CSS (Compute Subsystem): A pre-validated, integrated block of core IP and subsystems from Arm, enabling faster customer chip design and reduced time to market.

LUMIX CSS: Arm’s latest mobile compute platform, integrating advanced AI and performance capabilities for flagship smartphones.

Stargate: A multi-company AI data center initiative (announced by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank) intended for massive-scale compute infrastructure projects, with Arm as a strategic technology provider.

RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access): Networking hardware capability acquired via Dream Big Semiconductor, enabling high-speed, low-latency data transfer between servers in data centers.

Annualized contract value (ACV): A metric representing the yearly value of active licensing contracts signed within a given period.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Rene Haas, Arm’s Chief Executive Officer, and Jason Child, Arm’s Chief Financial Officer. During the call, Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares will discuss forecasts, targets, and other forward-looking information regarding the company and its financial results. While these statements represent our best current judgment about future results and performance, our actual results are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially. In addition to any risks that we highlight during this call, important risk factors that may affect our future results and performance are described in our registration statement on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

We will refer to non-GAAP financial measures during this discussion. Reconciliations of certain of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures can be found in our shareholder letter, as can a discussion of projected non-GAAP financial measures that we are not able to reconcile without unreasonable efforts and supplemental financial information. Our earnings-related materials are on our website at investors.arm.com. And with that, I’ll turn the call to Rene. Rene?

Rene Haas: Thank you, Jeff, and welcome, everyone. We continue its fiscal year 2026 with strong momentum, fueled by accelerating demand for AI compute from milliwatts in the smallest of edge devices to megawatts in the world’s largest hyperscale data centers. Artificial intelligence is reshaping every layer of technology, and Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares is the only compute platform delivering AI everywhere. Q2 was our best second quarter ever.

Rene Haas: With revenue of $1.14 billion, up 34% year on year, marking our third consecutive $1 billion quarter. Royalty revenue reached a record $620 million, up 21% year on year. Licensing revenue rose 56% to $550 million as companies continue choosing Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares to build our next-generation AI products. Our strong results lifted non-GAAP EPS above the high end of guidance. During the quarter, we announced a strategic partnership with Meta to scale AI efficiency across every layer of compute, from AI-enabled wearables to AI data centers on a consistent compute platform.

This partnership combines Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares’ leadership in energy-efficient compute with Meta’s innovation in AI infrastructure and open technologies to deliver richer, more efficient AI experiences to billions of people worldwide. In the data center, access to power has now become the bottleneck, and this has accelerated adoption of Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares’ Neoverse compute platform, which has now surpassed 1 billion CPUs deployed. Our compute forms the foundation of custom silicon from leading partners, including NVIDIA Grace, AWS Graviton, Google Axion, and Microsoft Cobalt. For example, Google’s Arm-based Axion chip delivers up to 65% better price performance while using 60% less energy.

As a result, Google is migrating the majority of their internal workloads to run on Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares. Customers are increasingly deploying Arm VMware CPUs alongside their AI accelerators to orchestrate massive clusters, highlighting the versatility and scalability of our platform. The addition of five new Stargate sites this quarter further expands visibility into future AI capacity and reinforces Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares’ central role in the hyperscale build-out. As AI chip design becomes more complex, compute subsystems or CSS are helping customers accelerate their development cycles and reduce execution risk. Demand for CSS continues to exceed expectations.

During the quarter, we signed three new CSS licenses, one each in smartphones, tablets, and data centers, bringing our total to 19 CSS licenses across 11 companies. We also expanded our collaboration with Samsung, which is leveraging CSS for its Exynos family of chipsets, driving up to 40% AI performance over previous non-CSS generations. As a result, the top four Android phone vendors are now shipping CSS-powered devices. CSS has quickly become the starting point for customers building next-generation silicon, offering faster time to market and delivering higher T world trades for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares. In the quarter, we also launched LUMIX CSS, our most advanced mobile compute platform to date.

LUMIX enables rich on-device AI experiences such as real-time translation, image enhancement, and personal assistance. Flagship devices from partners like Oppo and Vivo are expected to ramp later this year, bringing console-quality performance and new AI capabilities directly to mobile devices. At the edge, AI is transforming how people interact with their devices in their hands, homes, and vehicles. Google launched the Pixel 10 smartphone featuring the new Arm-based Tensor G5 chip, which runs Gemini models up to 2.6 times faster and twice as efficiently as prior generations. NVIDIA began shipping its Arm-based DGX Spark system for AI developers, a compact desktop supercomputer for local model training, fine-tuning, and inference.

In automotive, a flagship electric vehicle built on Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares platform introduced advanced park assist, voice control, and safety features featuring Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares’ automotive-enhanced technologies. Tesla’s next-generation Arm-based AI5 chip delivers up to 40 times faster AI performance, enabling the next wave of intelligent vehicles and autonomous machines. Our leadership in AI is amplified by our unmatched software developer ecosystem, now more than 22 million strong, representing over 80% of the world’s developer base. This ecosystem is a powerful growth engine for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares.

Every new Arm-based device brings more developers, which drives more software innovation, which in turn fuels greater demand for our compute platform across every market we serve. As mentioned in our last call, we are continuing to explore the possibility of moving beyond our current platform into additional compute subsystems, chiplets, or complex SoCs. As a result, we continue to accelerate the investment in our R&D as we are seeing increased demand from our customers far more from our. AI is shaping how the world computes, and Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares is the foundation making it. From milliwatts to megawatts, we deliver the performance, efficiency, and scalability to meet this moment and the years ahead.

And with that, I’ll hand it over to Jason.

Jason Child: Thank you, Rene. We have delivered another strong quarter.

Jason Child: Total revenue grew 34% year on year to $1.14 billion, a record for Q2. It exceeded the midpoint of our guidance range by $75 million and marked our third consecutive quarter above $1 billion. Royalty revenue exceeded our expectations, growing 21% year on year to a record of $620 million versus our guidance of mid-teens. The biggest growth contributors were smartphones with higher royalty rates per chip and in data centers where we continue to see share gains from custom hyperscaler chips. Royalty revenue from smartphones grew an order of magnitude faster than the market as multiple OEMs ramped smartphone space on Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares’ V9 and CSS chips.

Data center royalties doubled year on year, given the continued deployment of Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares-based chips by hyperscaler companies. Automotive and IoT both continued to grow year on year and contributed to our strong royalty performance. Overall, royalty growth rates continue to reflect Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares’ increasing royalty rates and rising market share. Turning now to license. License and other revenue was $515 million, up 56% year on year. Growth was driven by strong demand for next-generation architectures and deeper strategic engagements with key customers. We further expanded our license and services agreement with SoftBank. We also signed four ATA and three CSS deals.

These agreements reflect the continued investment by our customers in next-generation Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares technology. As always, licensing revenue varies quarter to quarter due to the timing and size of high-value deals. So we continue to focus on annualized contract value or ACV as a key indicator of the underlying licensing trend. ACV grew 28% year on year, maintaining strong momentum following the 28% year on year growth we reported in Q1. This is well above our usual run rate of low teens growth rates and is also above our long-term expectation of mid to high single-digit growth for license revenue. Turning to operating expenses and profits.

Non-GAAP operating expenses were $648 million, up 31% year on year, on strong R&D investment, and slightly below guidance. These investments in R&D reflect ongoing engineering headcount expansion to support customer demand for more Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares technology, including continued innovation in next-generation architectures, compute subsystems, and possibly chiplets or complete SoCs. For example, over the past four years, we’ve invested heavily in developing the technology that makes up the Lumex compute subsystems for smartphones, which we announced in September. This project took around a thousand man-years with a team size peaking over 450 engineers and required around hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.

Lumex CSS has attracted strong market interest and we’re already seeing royalty revenue from an early licensee. Non-GAAP operating income was $467 million, up 43% year on year. This resulted in a non-GAAP operating margin of 41.1% and an improvement from 38.6% a year ago. Non-GAAP EPS was $0.39, $0.06 above the midpoint of our guidance range, driven by both higher revenue and slightly lower OpEx. Turning now to guidance. Our guidance reflects our current view of our end markets and our licensing pipeline. For Q3, expect revenue of $1.225 billion plus or minus $50 million. At the midpoint, this represents revenue growth of about 25% year on year.

We expect royalties to be up just over 20% year on year, and licensing to be up 25 to 30% year on year. We expect our non-GAAP operating expense to be approximately $720 million and our non-GAAP EPS to be $0.41 plus or minus 4¢. Our higher revenue allows us to both accelerate R&D investment and pass through upside to EPS. We are seeing strong demand from our customers for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares technology, which gives us confidence in our long-term growth trajectory and our strategy to enable AI everywhere. In the cloud, at the edge, and in physical devices.

And we will continue investing aggressively in R&D to capture these opportunities and ensure that AI runs on Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares. With that, I’ll turn the call back to the operator for the Q&A portion of the call.

Operator: Thank you. To ask a question, you will need to press 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. In the interest of time, please limit yourself to one question only and rejoin the queue for any follow-up. To withdraw your question, please press 11 again. We will now go to the first question. And your first question today comes from the line of Sebastien Naji from William Blair. Please go ahead.

Sebastien Naji: Yeah. Good afternoon. And congrats on the nice results. Rene, I wanted to ask about the AI. There’s been a seemingly nonstop stream of new data center deals announced over the last quarter calling for tens of gigawatts of additional computing capacity to be stood up. How do you feel about Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares’ strategic positioning with respect to these AI deals? And what do you view as the opportunity across the build-out?

Rene Haas: Thank you for the question, Sebastien. As a board member of SoftBank and also given our heavy involvement there with Stargate and regular dialogue with OpenAI, I believe I have a unique perspective in terms of visibility in terms of this market. One thing that’s become quite evident is that power has become the bottleneck. For everyone, and power not only means access to energy, but everything underneath it in terms of infrastructure build-out, turbines, transformers, everything associated with generating power. So in that environment, everyone wants to move the most efficient compute platform as possible. Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares is about 50% more efficient than competitive solutions.

We’ve seen that across the board in benchmarks, but also more importantly in real-life performance. And that’s why we see NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, all using our best technology. We’ve seen unprecedented demand for compute and all the incremental compute that we’ve seen announced literally has all been based on Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares. So that’s driving a huge growth opportunity for us. It’s one of the indicators as to why we’ve seen such growth in our Neoverse business. More than doubling year over year.

Sebastien Naji: Great. Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Joseph Michael Quatrochi from Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Joseph Michael Quatrochi: Yeah. Thanks for taking the question. I noticed in the filing, you announced your intention to acquire Dream Big Semiconductor. Curious just kinda what’s behind that and how does that kinda fold into your plans, you know, to potentially expand beyond your current kinda offering platform?

Rene Haas: Yeah. Thank you for the question. So Dream Big is a great company. They’ve got a lot of interesting intellectual property, particularly around the Ethernet area and RDMA controllers, which are very key for scale-up and scale-out networking. So when we look at the demand for what’s going on inside the data center and particularly in the area of high-speed communications, that type of technology will be very helpful for us to broaden our offering to end customers. So we’re very excited about the company, and Dream Big’s got some fantastic engineers.

Jason Child: Thank you.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Jim Schneider from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Jim Schneider: Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. I noticed in your disclosures that you saw a material step up in related party revenue. I was wondering if you could maybe talk a little bit about, and there’s also been many announcements related to Stargate and SoftBank since the last earnings. So also can you maybe give us any kind of color you can on the nature of that relationship and how things are changing in terms of design activities. Thank you.

Rene Haas: So one of the ways to think about Stargate and particularly given the relationship between Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares and SoftBank is a huge opportunity for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares to partner with SoftBank and SoftBank’s partners to provide technology into all those solutions. Without giving you too many of the specifics, but at a high level, if you think about what’s associated with building out these data centers, you have the compute, obviously. You have the networking. You have everything associated with power distribution. You have potential technology that gets into the power mechanism of the data center and then everything associated with even potential assembly of the data center.

So as a result of all the work that SoftBank and the SoftBank family of companies are doing, it provides a huge opportunity for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares to provide solutions into that space. So that at a high level is the way to think about how the SoftBank family works together on these design activities.

Jason Child: Thank you.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Srini Pajjuri from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

Srini Pajjuri: Thanks for letting me ask a question. I wanted to go back to the OpEx side of things. I know it’s a little bit below your guide in the second quarter, but the fourth or third quarter looks like it’s gonna step up again. Kind of a bigger picture one. You mentioned about exploring different sorts of go-to-market methodologies, chiplets, etcetera. When do you expect to give us more color on when that’s going to go from exploration to return on investment or the actual strategy? How should we monitor that and expect to get more information from you?

Rene Haas: Yeah. Thank you for asking. The best detail I can give you is that there’s nothing I can talk to you about today in terms of timeline about products or technologies. When the time comes for us to announce it, you’ll be the first to know in terms of what we’re doing. Right now, the best commentary I can give is that everything associated with those solutions does require a significant level of R&D. Now as you’ve seen on the guidance going forward, our revenue go forward is higher than our OpEx increase, which is something we’ve been very careful to manage. So we feel comfortable about that.

But at the same time, what we’re looking at in terms of the opportunity for compute and more importantly, compute using Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares, has never been greater. So as a result, we want to make sure we’re in the best position possible to capture it. We’re looking at all possibilities in terms of how to do that. And when we’re ready to talk about what that is, we will certainly, you know, advise.

Jason Child: Yeah. The only thing I would add is I think last quarter we said as soon as the way we think about when we announce something, if it were to be, you know, something related to full SoCs, it would be once there’s tape out, once there’s samples back, and once there’s actually non-cancel customer orders, and we achieve all three of those milestones, that’s when we would probably talk about something because this would be a new business and something we haven’t done before. So whenever those milestones are achieved, that’s when you should expect to hear from us.

Jason Child: Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Vivek Arya from Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Vivek Arya: Thanks for taking my question. I just wanted to clarify how much was the SoftBank contribution in Q2 versus what you thought? And then what is baked in for Q3? And hopefully, if you have the number for Q4. And the real question is how long can this quarterly rate persist? And if you do move into physical chips or chiplets or any other products, as far as Target, does it start to cannibalize this licensing stream?

Jason Child: Yeah. So thanks for the question. In terms of the impact, it was about a $50 million increase from last quarter. So last quarter, I think we were about $126 million, actually went up $52 million, so now about $178 million. And that’s, you know, that’s a good run rate to assume going forward. You know, the only way it would change is if we have any additional deals. And again, these are licensed plus design services. So think of it as being licenses to our IP to work with SoftBank on exploring solutions. But then think of the design services being effectively a kind of a funded R&D model. And so that’s a lower margin revenue, of course.

So in terms of how long these revenue streams will occur, we’re not at liberty to say yet, but I would say, you know, as Rene said, at some point, probably in the next year or so, you’ll hear us talk about what products those might be, but obviously that’s not just up to us. It’s when SoftBank’s ready to talk about what these products could look like and what the revenue profile, etcetera is. And so when that would occur, you know, it’s likely to assume, you know, that there would be, you know, some different revenue source, whether it’s royalties or, you know, gross revenue from selling a chip if in fact it’s a full SoC.

Those are all things that are still to be worked out. And, yeah, I would think of that as being, you know, to some extent cannibalistic of whatever the current license and design services. But then, of course, you know, if there is a product, you could also assume there could be successive, you know, generations of products after that. In which case, you could stack royalty between license and design services, but then of course there could also be royalties or whatever the revenue relates to whatever the product that ships in market is.

So I would think of it as very much durable revenue in that, you know, I think, you know, if SoftBank wasn’t a related party, we would just be booking license and design services. And it wouldn’t be related party, but then the numbers would be, you know, pretty similar. And so the fact that they’re related party, you know, I think is probably what makes it look somewhat unique. But the reality is we also, as Rene already mentioned, this is not really just between, you know, us and SoftBank. They also have contracts with many others, OpenAI, other Stargate partners as well. So I would think of this as all being part of a larger effort.

Jason Child: Thanks.

Operator: Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Timm Schulze-Melander from Rothschild and Co. Redburn. Go ahead.

Timm Schulze-Melander: Yes, great. Thank you for taking my questions. I had two, please. Just following on the Stargate theme and the sites, can you maybe just talk about the shape of what that revenue opportunity looks like on a sort of one, three, and five-year view? Just kind of when it’s gonna start having an influence on the revenue, the annual revenue or quarterly revenue of the business. And then my second question was, just to make sure I wasn’t sure I caught it right, you talked about the Lumex CSS. I think that’s, you know, a product that you launched in September, but I think you also said that you already have royalty revenues associated with that.

If you could just maybe expand on that a little bit, that would be really helpful. Thank you.

Rene Haas: Sure. I’ll take the first part of that question. I’ll let Jason take the second half. Without giving you a kind of a go-forward forecast of one, five years, maybe a way to think about it is back in January, OpenAI with Oracle and SoftBank announced Stargate, which was a $500 billion project to build out data centers over the next number of years. When we go back to where we are now eleven months later, I would say the demand picture for compute is greater than it was at that time. So this is a bit of why you’re seeing all kinds of different accelerated announcements around spend, etcetera, etcetera.

So if nothing else, I think the opportunity for compute has only grown since we made that Stargate announcement. And to be clear, that announcement is around a joint partnership with OpenAI and SoftBank being equity partners in this investment for compute. So we are quite bullish in terms of this overall demand for compute. Right now, what’s in the way of realizing that potential is all of the infrastructure required around the power.

But from everything that we can tell from people we talk to inside the ecosystem, the demand for compute to train these new models, reinforcement learning to make them great, and then inference to serve them, the demand opportunity is stronger than we announced eleven months ago. So this is why we’re accelerating all the investments that we talked about to take advantage of that opportunity. On the Lumex CSS royalty question, I’ll let Jason answer that one.

Jason Child: Yeah. So I would say the licensee that we’re already receiving royalties from, that is, I’d say, earlier than expected. And the way it’s happened so quickly is this actually, you know, we’re not able to say which partner it is, but it is a partner where this is not their first CSS. This is their second CSS. So as a result, there was already kind of close partnership on the first generation. And so then when we launched the next generation, because the teams had already been working pretty close to each other, it allowed that second generation to be adopted very quickly.

And for royalties to come really just, you know, within a couple of months after the technology was delivered. So kind of unusual, a little ahead of what we’d expected, but it very much speaks to exactly why CSS has been more successful even than we thought when we launched it two years ago. It’s really about speeding up time to market. And this is an excellent example of that occurring.

Jason Child: Great. Thank you.

Timm Schulze-Melander: Thank you.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Harlan Sur from JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Harlan Sur: Hey. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. Rene, you talked about Neoverse royalties growing 2x year over year. With all these cloud-based CPUs ramping. And then on top of that, with these high-performance AI clusters, right, they’re using more GPUs or SmartNICs that are also using Arm cores. On the networking side, data center switching and routing chips have multiple Arm cores embedded in them for things like telemetry, load balancing, overall system management. The bottom line is that there’s significant Arm cores compute going into all aspects of the data center. Right? We’re also even seeing Arm taking over x86 in the service provider network. Networking markets as well.

So last fiscal year, cloud and networking accounted for about 10% of royalty revenues. We’re midway through this fiscal year. Maybe you guys could just true us up, I assume. This mix has increased. Is it approaching 15, 20% of total royalty revenues for the team? Any color here would be great.

Rene Haas: Yeah. I’ll let Jason address numbers, but thank you for being a great salesman and describing our penetration across domains. You’re 100% right. There’s Arm technology in virtually every set of the networking stack. The BlueField technology at Mellanox, GPU-based, that’s Arm. Significant technology goes into the switches around Tomahawk and Arista. All using Arm technology. So we are definitely seeing an acceleration of all that. And at the same time, I think the power efficiency piece is probably the biggest accelerant I think we’re going to see just in terms of being able to offload as much as everything you can onto the more power-efficient domain of the compute platform. So I’ll let Jason comment on royalties.

So scheme in terms of where that is going directionally.

Jason Child: Hey, Harlan. So on the royalties, yeah, I mean, it ended the year at around 10% ish. And so, you know, we’re certainly with the growth rate in infrastructure being, you know, double, I’d say, all the other categories in overall average, you should expect it to continue to increase. We’ll provide a full update at the end of the year. But, you know, your trajectory is somewhere in the 15% to 20% range is not a bad assumption and probably a reasonable expectation for where we expect to trend throughout the year.

Rene Haas: So I would say it’s probably going faster than we expected a year ago.

Jason Child: That’s right.

Harlan Sur: Great. Great. Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Krish Sankar from TD Cowen. Please go ahead.

Krish Sankar: Yeah. Hi. Thanks for taking my question. I have a question for Rene. You know, clearly, you kinda highlighted how you have strengthened smartphones and also increasing market share. In data center, I’m kinda curious, when you look over the next few years, how do you see chip demand and token generation playing out and its implication for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares, especially as we move into more of an inference world where edge devices may play a bigger role.

Rene Haas: Oh, I think, you know, from some accounts of people who I talk to will say that today, on some of these data centers, these build-outs of multi 100 megawatts that still, and again, depending on how you define training inference and reinforcement learning, the majority of compute is being used for training still. That clearly will flip. Well, at some point, it has to. We think. And then that demand starts to move to inference. What we’re seeing is all kinds of demand for different architectures and compute. Type of solutions to run inference not in the cloud. Obviously, you’re going to not rely 100% on something on the edge. But today, it’s the reverse.

It’s about 100% on the cloud. We think that is going to change. We are seeing already lots of demand for the CPUs and LUMI that have these scalable matrix extensions. And these are the extensions that allow you to run AI workloads at higher performance. That’s only gonna continue. And I think for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares, that is an enormous trend for us on two levels. Number one, huge trend for us because the further you move away from the cloud onto battery-level devices, that’s a domain that Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares can play in the sense of the software workload running exclusively there.

But at the same time, customers would love a scalable software solution between the cloud and the edge. And that’s a lot of what’s behind the announcement that we made with Meta in October. This is around working in such a way with Meta where whether they’re running something in the cloud or running in the edge for developers, they’re able to port models in such a way that it’s as efficient as possible no matter where you’re running. So this is all, I think, a good thing for us because more tokens mean more compute. More compute means more compute needed at the edge.

And more compute at the edge is really good for us because that’s a think we’re in a very, very unique position to address that.

Krish Sankar: Thank you, Aldrin. I appreciate it.

Jason Child: Thank you.

Operator: We will now take our final question for today. And the final question comes from the line of Lee Simpson, Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Lee Simpson: Great. Thanks for fitting me in, and well done, everyone, on a great quarter. I see China is maybe 22% of sales this queue. And I was just wondering what is driving that? Is it more licensing or royalties? For strength in the quarter? And maybe just as you look out to the licensing pipeline for the rest of the year, have you seen more reason to be confident in the growth this year for licensing? Especially as you look to Q4, which, as I believe, we said before, there’s potential for good renewal deals this year. Thanks.

Jason Child: Thanks for the question, Lee. In terms of the performance, yeah, it definitely has done well. And I would just, you know, overall say, the demand in China looks to be as strong as we’ve ever seen. We did have one of our largest license deals actually come out of China. And so I would say license was slightly more of a, I’d say, more of the overperformance came from license. Royalties are also growing strong in China as well, but license was a little bit of a bigger driver this quarter. And, you know, our pipeline indicates that we have a pretty strong license pipeline for the remainder of the year.

In terms of overall license revenue, hard to say as we get into Q4, there are some large deals as we always have in terms of timing. You know, right now, we’re just guiding on Q3. But next quarter we’ll, you know, definitely have much more clarity around, you know, what deals are gonna be able to land in Q4 and whether there’s any pull forward push outs or whatnot. But, you know, as a reminder, we, you know, the deal cycles on large license deals are usually six to nine months. And we don’t really lose deals. It’s really just about what exactly are the market needs for a and when do they need it.

And given, you know, the current CapEx, you know, kind of forecast and all the AI cycles that continue to be as strong as they’ve been for the last couple of years. You know, have a lot of confidence, but we’ll give you a little more detail next quarter on what’s gonna land in Q4.

Lee Simpson: That’s great. Thanks, Jason.

Jason Child: Thank you, Lee.

Operator: Thank you. That was our final question for today. I will now hand the call back to Rene for closing remarks.

Rene Haas: Thank you, and thank everyone for the questions. You know, as we stated, we could not be more happy with the results last quarter. Royalties at a record. 34% growth year on year. Just terrific results. But more importantly, when we think about the opportunity for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares going forward, the future has never been brighter. Brighter because if we look at what’s going on with artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence is driving unprecedented demand for compute. And given the unprecedented demand for compute, we are seeing all kinds of constraints on power and infrastructure to deliver that compute. Which means that the compute that’s being delivered for AI needs to be as efficient as possible.

That’s also a great place for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares. And then as more and more of this AI compute moves from the cloud to edge devices and requires the most efficient compute on the planet, that’s a great place for Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares to be. So we are extremely excited about the future going forward. We continue to invest to ensure that we can take advantage of that opportunity. And on behalf of everyone inside Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares who made this quarter happen, and to our partners and customers, thank you so much. And thank you for all the questions.

Operator: Thank you. This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

Lundin Mining Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results and Increases Full-Year Copper Production Guidance and Lowers Cost Guidance

November 5, 2025

VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 5, 2025 /CNW/ – (TSX: LUN) (Nasdaq Stockholm: LUMI) Lundin Mining Corporation (“Lundin Mining” or the “Company”) today reported its third quarter 2025 financial results. Unless otherwise stated, results are presented in United States dollars on a 100% basis. View PDF 

Jack Lundin, President and CEO commented, “We are pleased to report another solid quarter at Lundin Mining, with copper production, revenue, EBITDA, and earnings all exceeding results from the first and second quarters. The Company generated over $1 billion in revenue and delivered $383 million of adjusted operating cash flow. Consolidated copper cash cost of $1.61 /lb marks our lowest quarterly cost this year.

“We are updating our full-year guidance to reflect strong operational performance, particularly at Caserones. The midpoint of consolidated copper production is increasing by 11,500 tonnes to 328,000 tonnes, with a new range of 319,000 to 337,000 tonnes. Additionally, improved performance at Caserones and Chapada has resulted in the lowering of our overall consolidated copper cash cost guidance to a range of $1.85 to $2.00 /lb.

“Encouraging progress continues to be made with our near-term growth initiatives at our existing operations and with the large-scale Vicuña Project. We are thrilled to welcome Ron Hochstein as Chief Executive Officer of Vicuña Corp., joining a seasoned team with a proven track record of success. The Vicuña team is advancing parallel studies to support a multi-phased development plan, with an integrated technical study anticipated in Q1 2026.”

Third Quarter Operational and Financial Highlights

Continued strong operational performance drove earnings in the third quarter, supported by sustained higher gold prices. Consolidated copper guidance for the full-year is increasing to 319,000 – 337,000 tonnes of copper, reflecting stronger cathode production at Caserones. The balance sheet strengthened during the period, and the Company expects to continue to pay down debt throughout the fourth quarter. Full-year 2025 consolidated copper cash cost¹ guidance is decreasing by approximately $0.125 /lb to $1.85 to $2.00 /lb.

Third Quarter Highlights:

• Copper Production: 87,353 tonnes of copper production at a consolidated copper cash cost of $1.61 /lb.
• Other Production: 37,763 ounces of gold and 2,724 tonnes of nickel.
• Revenue: $1,007.0 million from continuing operations with a realized copper price¹ of $4.61 /lb and a realized gold price¹ of $3,889 /oz.
• Net Earnings and Adjusted Earnings¹: Net earnings from continuing operations attributable to shareholders of the Company was $143.3 million ($0.17 per share) and adjusted earnings from continuing operations was $152.3 million ($0.18 per share).
• Adjusted EBITDA¹: $489.7 million generated from continuing operations.
• Cash Generation: Cash provided by continuing operations was $270.3 million and free cash flow from operations¹ was $168.9 million. Adjusted operating cash flow from continuing operations¹ was $382.9 million.
• Net debt¹: As at September 30, the net debt position of the Company was $107.9 million (excluding lease liabilities).
• Growth: The Company is continuing to advance its growth initiatives as part of its strategic aspirations to become a global top-ten copper producer and achieve copper production of over 500,000 tonnes per year and gold production of over 550,000 ounces per year:
  • Underground contractor insourcing initiatives continued at Candelaria with the initial wave of contractors being brought onboard, insourcing will continue into next year.
  • Saúva Phase 1 mine plan development advanced and further discussions with authorities regarding permitting timelines continued, an update is expected in January.
  • Vicuña Corp. (“Vicuña”) announced the appointment Ron Hochstein as Chief Executive Officer of Vicuña. Mr. Hochstein has been an integral member of the Lundin Group for more than 30 years, holding a variety of leadership roles and building an outstanding track record of creating shareholder value. Vicuña is a 50/50 joint arrangement between Lundin Mining and BHP that holds the consolidated deposits of Filo del Sol and Josemaria (collectively, the “Vicuña Project”).
  • Vicuña continues to advance the Vicuña Project through drilling, tradeoff studies, engineering, cost estimation and permitting in preparation for the integrated technical study in the first quarter 2026.
• Shareholder Returns: A quarterly dividend of C$0.0275 per share has been declared. During the quarter, no common shares were purchased under the NCIB. So far during 2025, Lundin Mining has acquired 12,629,000 common shares at a cost of approximately $104.0 million.
• Outlook: The Company is pleased to be increasing and tightening its full-year copper guidance from 303,000 – 330,000 to 319,000 – 337,000 tonnes of copper. The Company is further improving cash cost guidance at Caserones, Chapada and Eagle which lowers full-year consolidated cash cost guidance for the Company to $1.85 – $2.00 /lb cash cost. Annual capital expenditure guidance is being reduced by deferrals at Candelaria and Caserones.

Summary Financial Results 

Quarterly Financial Results

• The Company generated revenue from continuing operations of $1,007.0 million (Q3 2024 – $873.1 million) which benefitted from higher realized copper and gold prices.
• Gross profit from continuing operations of $347.7 million was $81.5 million higher than in the prior year comparable period of $266.2 million. The increase was primarily due to higher realized copper and gold prices and lower treatment charges, partially offset by lower sales volumes at Candelaria and increased depreciation expense.
• Net earnings from continuing operations increased to $184.6 million from $110.7 million in the prior year comparable period primarily due to higher gross profit combined with lower interest expense from reduced net debt.
• Adjusted earnings from continuing operations of $152.3 million increased from $57.2 million in the prior year comparable period primarily as a result of higher gross profit.
• Cash provided by operating activities related to continuing operations of $270.3 million increased from $81.4 million in the prior year comparable period primarily due to higher gross profit and a lower working capital build.
• Sustaining capital expenditures² from continuing operations of $109.1 million were consistent with the prior year comparable period of $109.3 million.
• Expansionary capital expenditures³ of $51.1 million were consistent with the prior year comparable period of $49.9 million.
• Free cash flow² from continuing operations of $110.1 million increased from negative free cash flow of $77.8 million in the prior year comparable period due to increased cash provided by operating activities related to continuing operations.
• As at November 5, 2025, the Company had cash of approximately $225 million and net debt excluding lease liabilities of approximately $100 million.

Q3 2025 Operational Performance

Total Production

Candelaria (80% owned): Candelaria produced 37,129 tonnes of copper and 19,899  ounces of gold in concentrate on a 100% basis. Mining was focused on Phase 11 and production continued to benefit from strong throughput in the mill due to softer ore feed, finer ore size and higher ball mill runtime. Cash cost[4]of $1.87/lb was impacted by lower grades and higher mining costs, partially offset by higher metal prices for by-product credits and reduced treatment and refining charges.

Caserones (70% owned): Caserones produced 35,270 tonnes of copper and 574 tonnes of molybdenum on a 100% basis. Copper concentrate production was positively impacted by improved grades from Phase 6, while copper cathode production benefitted from increased material placed on the dump leach in previous periods. Cash cost of $1.86/lb benefitted from strong throughput and higher grades, increased by-product credits, decreased treatment and refining charges, and reduced contractor expenses. Revenue in the quarter was impacted by a shipment of copper concentrate scheduled for September that was delayed into October due to weather related issues. The shipment of approximately 5,100 tonnes of contained payable copper, valued at approximately $50 million, will be recognized as revenue in the fourth quarter.

Chapada (100% owned): Chapada produced 12,600 tonnes of copper and 17,864 ounces of gold in concentrate. Ore from the North and South open pits continued to be mined and processed, prioritizing higher-grade material consistent with the planned mine sequence. Production also benefitted from strong throughput, which was the highest since Q3 2022. Cash cost of $0.50/lb was the lowest since Q4 2020 and benefitted from higher gold by-product credits as a result of increased realized gold prices, combined with higher throughput and grades.

Eagle (100% owned): Eagle produced 2,724 tonnes of nickel and 2,354 tonnes of copper. Production was positively impacted by strong throughput in the mill resulting in nickel cash cost of $2.11/lb.

Outlook – Annual Guidance Update

Production Guidance Update

Lundin Mining remains on track to meet or exceed its original consolidated annual production guidance for all metals, as published in the MD&A for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025.

• Copper: The total annual production guidance range is increasing to 319,000 to 337,000 tonnes, with the midpoint rising by approximately 11,500 tonnes.
  • Candelaria: Narrowing both the lower and upper range for copper and the upper range for gold. Production is expected to remain consistent with previous quarters.
  • Caserones: Increasing copper guidance due to higher cathode production. Higher copper head grades in the third quarter are expected to continue into the fourth quarter, supporting revised production guidance.
  • Chapada: No changes to production guidance. Production is weighted to the second half of 2025. Fourth quarter copper grades and recoveries are expected to be in line with those of the third quarter.
• Nickel: The lower range of guidance is increasing to reflect expected results aligned with the mine plan. Grades and mining rates are expected to remain stable in the fourth quarter.

Cash Cost Guidance Update

Cash cost guidance ranges are being reduced for Caserones, Chapada, and Eagle, driven by higher than expected sales volumes and by-product credits. Full-year consolidated copper cash cost guidance range is being reduced to $1.85 to $2.00 /lb.

• Candelaria: Cash cost is tracking to the midpoint of guidance.
• Caserones: Cash cost guidance is decreasing due to higher sales volume, lower labor costs and increased by-product credits.
• Chapada: Cash cost guidance is reducing further due to higher gold prices.
• Eagle: Cash cost guidance is decreasing due to reduced labor costs and increased by-product credits.

2025 Production and Cash Cost Guidance^a

2025 Capital Expenditure Guidance^b,c

Annual capital expenditure guidance is being reduced to $750 million from $795 million with deferrals at Candelaria and Caserones.

2025 Exploration Investment Guidance

Total exploration expenditure guidance for 2025 remains at $40 million.

Exploration

During the third quarter, exploration efforts were concentrated on in-mine and near-mine targets across all operating sites. A total of 17,390 metres were drilled across the four operations.

Candelaria

• Total drilling: 930 metres.
• Focus area: Candelaria Norte.
• Objective: Continued evaluation of mineral potential in the northern zone.

Caserones

• Total drilling: 5,152 metres.
• Rig deployment:
  • 1 rig at the Caserones pit targeting deep, high-grade copper breccias.
  • 3 rigs at Angelica targeting copper sulphides beneath the oxide deposit.

Chapada

• Total drilling: 3,847 metres.
• Rig deployment:
  • 1 rig in the Saúva resource area focused on expanding high-grade resources.
  • 1 rig testing shallow targets outside Saúva and other near-mine prospects.

Eagle

• Total drilling: 7,461 metres.
• Targets:
  • 2 rigs at Boulderdash targeting extensions of the known nickel-copper mineralized intrusion.
  • 1 rig at Roland Lake exploring new mineralization zones.

Talon Agreement Update

In September 2025, the exclusivity agreement with Talon, announced March 5, 2025, was terminated. In October 2025, Talon issued 18,502,906 common shares to Lundin Mining at a deemed price of C$0.3762, as repayment of $5.0 million previously advanced from the Company. Prior to the agreement termination, a total of 9,424 metres (94%) was drilled of the initial 10,000 metre drill program.

Vicuña

During the quarter, Vicuña announced the appointment of Ron Hochstein as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vicuña, effective November 7, 2025. Mr. Hochstein is currently CEO and Director of Lundin Gold Inc. guiding the development and successful operation of the Fruta del Norte gold mine in Ecuador.

In 2025, work continues to advance parallel studies supporting a multi-phased development concept pertaining to the Josemaria and Filo del Sol deposits. An integrated technical report is targeted to be complete by early 2026.

The Josemaria Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”) advanced through review by the San Juan authorities with a site visit scheduled for Q4 2025. Construction of the northern access road commenced during the quarter.

Drilling activities at Filo del Sol advanced with 14,587 metres completed during the quarter, bringing the year-to-date total to 48,992 metres across nine drill rigs.

Government relations activities continued with both the national and provincial governments, including discussions on provincial agreements. Work also progressed in the quarter on an application for the Argentinean Basis Law – Incentive Regime for Large Investments (“RIGI”). RIGI application documents are expected to be submitted in the coming months.  

Community investment programs were launched in 2025 with a focus on gender, youth training and cooperative development.

The Company spent $51.1 million in capital expenditures during the quarter, in line with $49.9 million in the prior year comparable period, and spent $126.0 million on a year-to-date basis compared to $193.0 million in the prior year comparable period. Both the quarter and year-to-date periods are impacted by the formation of Vicuña on January 15, 2025. From this date, the Company’s expansionary capital expenditures include 50% of Vicuña’s capital expenditures.

About Vicuña

On January 15, 2025, the Company completed the Filo Acquisition and the Joint Arrangement, resulting in the Company indirectly holding a 50% interest in Vicuña, an independently managed joint operation which owns the Josemaria deposit in Argentina and the Filo del Sol deposit in Argentina and Chile. BHP indirectly owns the remaining 50% interest in Vicuña.

An initial Mineral Resource estimate for the Filo del Sol sulphide deposit, an updated Mineral Resource estimate for the Filo del Sol oxide deposit, and an updated Mineral Resource estimate for the Josemaria deposit highlighted the combined Vicuña Project as one of the largest copper, gold and silver resources in the world. Details of the Vicuña Mineral Resource are set out in the Vicuña Technical Report.

The Filo del Sol and Josemaria deposits have significant high-grade mineralization that could provide the initial years of mining for the Project.

• Filo del Sol high-grade core at cut-off of 0.75% copper equivalent (“CuEq”): 606 million Mt (M&I) at 1.14% CuEq[5] (0.74% Cu) for contained metal of 4.5 Mt copper at 0.74%, 9.6 Moz gold at 0.49 g/t and 259 Moz silver at 13.3 g/t.
• Near surface Josemaria high-grade core at cut-off of 0.60% CuEq: 196 Mt (M&I) at 0.73% CuEq[6] (0.50% Cu) for contained metal of 978 kt copper at 0.50%, 2.4 Moz gold at 0.38 g/t and 11 Moz silver at 1.7 g/t.

The Filo del Sol deposit also contains copper oxide mineralization at surface.

• Lower capital intensity heap leach oxide cap of 434 Mt (M&I) at 0.34% copper (1.5 Mt), 0.28 g/t gold (3.9 Moz) and 2.5 g/t silver (35 Moz)
• High-grade oxides at a cut-off of 0.60% CuEq of 181 Mt (M&I) at 1.05% CuEq[7] (0.50% Cu) for contained metal of 911 kt copper at 0.50%, 2.3 Moz gold at 0.39 g/t and 230 Moz silver at 39.6 g/t.

Expansionary Projects

The Company has a number of brownfield expansionary projects that are expected to contribute to medium-term growth in its existing operating asset portfolio. Combined, these opportunities could add 30,000 to 40,000 tonnes of copper production growth and 60,000 to 70,000 ounces of annual gold production through low capital intensity growth projects.

Candelaria Underground Expansion

The Candelaria underground expansion project is expected to increase underground throughput capacity to ~22,000 tonnes per day from current levels of 12,000 to 14,000 tonnes per day targeting an increase in annual copper production of approximately 14,000 tonnes of copper per year. The opportunity includes insourcing of the Company’s underground mining contract and an increase in the number of active mining stopes. Internal recruitment has begun as part of the underground internalization process at Candelaria, initial crews have been onboarded and additional crews are expected to be insourced by the end of the year. It is anticipated that by mid-2026 the internalization of underground mining contractors will be completed.

Projects are also ongoing to support the mine life extension under the Environmental Impact Assessment (“2040 EIA”).

Caserones Cathode Plant Utilization

Caserones cathode plant capacity is approximately 35,000 tonnes of cathode production per year, currently the plant is producing 20,000 to 25,000 tonnes of cathode per year representing an opportunity to increase production through higher utilization rates of the cathode plant.

Year to date Caserones cathode production has increased, improving utilization rates of the cathode plant. Additional oxide material placed on the dumps over the last 18 months and improved leaching practices are expected to lead to higher cathode production. Hydrometallurgical leaching models on the dump leach have been updated and will be reflected in production guidance going forward.

Chapada – Saúva Deposit

The Saúva deposit is approximately 15 kilometres from the Chapada mine and represents a near mine opportunity to add approximately 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes of copper production per year and 50,000 to 60,000 ounces of gold production per year. The project would include the installation of additional grinding capacity and higher grade ore from Saúva to offset lower grade material currently being mined at Chapada.

Permitting and technical work is ongoing to further define the project, the Company is expected to provide an update in January 2026 on timelines and production profiles.

About Lundin Mining

Lundin Mining is a diversified Canadian base metals mining company with projects or operations focused in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the United States of America, and primarily producing copper, gold and nickel.

The information in this release is subject to the disclosure requirements of Lundin Mining under the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out below on November 5, 2025 at 15:35 Vancouver Time.

Technical Information 

The scientific and technical information in this document pertaining to the Vicuña Mineral Resource is based on the Vicuña Technical Report. The Vicuña Technical Report was prepared by Luke Evans, M.Sc., P.Eng. of SLR Consulting (Canada) Ltd, Paul Daigle, P.Geo. of AGP Mining Consultants Inc., Sean Horan, P.Geo. of Resource Modeling Solutions Ltd., Jeffrey Austin, P.Eng. of International Metallurgical and Environmental Inc., and Bruno Borntraeger, P.Eng. of Knight Piésold Ltd, each of whom reviewed, verified and approved the scientific and technical information pertaining to the Vicuña Mineral Resource that is related to his respective scope of responsibility. Each of the foregoing individuals is a “Qualified Person” as defined by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) and independent of the Company.

The scientific and technical information in this document other than that pertaining to the Vicuña Mineral Resource has been reviewed and approved in accordance with NI 43-101 by Eduardo Cortés, Registered Member (Comisión Calificadora de Competencias en Recursos y Reservas Mineras (Chilean Mining Commission)), Vice President, Mining & Resources at Lundin Mining, a “Qualified Person” under NI 43-101. Mr. Cortés has verified the data disclosed in this document and no limitations were imposed on his verification process.

The Vicuña Mineral Resource estimates are shown on a 100% basis and have an effective date of April 15, 2025. For further information related to the Vicuña Mineral Resource, including the key assumptions, parameters, and methods used to estimate the Vicuña Mineral Resource, risks and cautionary statements, see the Vicuña Technical Report and the Company’s News Release “Lundin Mining Announces Initial Mineral Resource at Filo Del Sol Demonstrating One of the World’s Largest Copper, Gold, and Silver Resources” dated May 4, 2025.

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures  

The Company uses certain performance measures in its analysis. These performance measures have no standardized meaning within generally accepted accounting principles under International Financial Reporting Standards and, therefore, amounts presented may not be comparable to similar data presented by other mining companies. For additional details please refer to the Company’s discussion of non-GAAP and other performance measures in its Management’s Discussion and Analysis for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 which is available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.com.

Cash Cost per Pound and All-in Sustaining Cost (“AISC”) per Pound can be reconciled to Production costs on the Company’s Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Earnings as follows:

Adjusted EBITDA can be reconciled to Net earnings (loss) on the Company’s Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Earnings as follows:

Adjusted Earnings and Adjusted EPS can be reconciled to Net earnings (loss) attributable to Lundin Mining Shareholders on the Company’s Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Earnings as follows:

Free Cash Flow from Operations and Free Cash Flow can be reconciled to Cash provided by operating activities on the Company’s Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as follows:

Adjusted Operating Cash Flow and Adjusted Operating Cash Flow per Share can be reconciled to Cash provided by operating activities on the Company’s Condensed Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as follows:

Net debt and Net Debt Excluding Lease Liabilities can be reconciled to Debt and lease liabilities, Current portion of debt and lease liabilities and Cash and cash equivalents on the Company’s Condensed Interim Consolidated Balance Sheets as follows:

Cautionary Statement on Forward-Looking Information

Certain of the statements made and information contained herein are “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this document constitute forward-looking information, including but not limited to statements regarding the Company’s plans, prospects, business strategies and strategic vision and aspirations and their achievement and timing; the Company’s guidance on the timing and amount of future production and its expectations regarding the results of operations; expected financial performance, including expected earnings, revenue, costs and expenditures and other financial metrics; the Company’s growth and optimization initiatives and expansionary projects, and the potential costs, outcomes, results and impacts thereof and timing thereof; permitting requirements and timelines; timing and possible outcomes of pending litigation and disputes, including tax disputes; the results of any Preliminary Economic Assessment, Pre-Feasibility Study, Feasibility Study, or Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimations, life of mine estimates, and mine and mine closure plans; remediation and reclamation obligations, including their anticipated costs and timing; anticipated market prices of metals, currency exchange rates and interest rates; the Company’s shareholder distribution policy, including with respect to share buybacks and the payment and amount of dividends and the timing thereof; the development and implementation of the Company’s Responsible Mining Management System; the Company’s liquidity, contractual obligations, commitments and contingencies, and the Company’s capital resources and adequacy thereof; the Company’s tax obligations; the Company’s ability to comply with contractual and permitting or other regulatory requirements; anticipated exploration and development activities, including potential outcomes, results, impacts and timing thereof; the Company’s integration of acquisitions and expansions and any anticipated benefits thereof, including the anticipated project development and associated costs and timing,  and other plans and expectations with respect to the Vicuña Project and the 50/50  joint arrangement with BHP; mineral resource estimation for the Vicuña Project, including the parameters and assumptions related thereto; the operation of Vicuña with BHP; the realization of synergies and economies of scale in the Vicuña district; the development and future operation of the Vicuña Project, including expected costs and timing; the timing and expectations for future regulatory applications (including the RIGI application), studies and technical reports with respect to the Company’s operations and projects, including the Vicuña Project and the Saúva Project; the potential for resource expansion; the terms of the contingent payments in respect of the completion of the sale of the Company’s European assets and expectations related thereto; and expectations for other economic, business, and/or competitive factors. Words such as “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “contemplate”, “target”, “plan”, “goal”, “aim”, “intend”, “continue”, “budget”, “estimate”, “may”, “will”, “can”, “could”, “should”, “schedule” and similar expressions identify forward-looking information.

Forward-looking information is necessarily based upon various estimates and assumptions including, without limitation, the expectations and beliefs of management, including that the Company can access financing, appropriate equipment and sufficient labour; assumed and future price of copper, gold, zinc, nickel and other metals; anticipated costs; currency exchange rates and interest rates; ability to achieve goals; the prompt and effective integration of acquisitions and the realization of synergies and economies of scale in connection therewith; that the political, economic, permitting and legal environment in which the Company operates will continue to support the development and operation of mining projects; timing and receipt of governmental, regulatory and third party approvals, consents, licenses and permits and their renewals; positive relations with local groups; the accuracy of Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimates and related information, analyses and interpretations; and such other assumptions as set out herein as well as those related to the factors set forth below. While these factors and assumptions are considered reasonable by Lundin Mining as at the date of this document in light of management’s experience and perception of current conditions and expected developments, such information is inherently subject to significant business, economic, political, regulatory and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Known and unknown factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information and undue reliance should not be placed on such information. Such factors include, but are not limited to: dependence on international market prices and demand for the metals that the Company produces; political, economic, and regulatory uncertainty in operating jurisdictions, including but not limited to those related to permitting and approvals, nationalization or expropriation without fair compensation, environmental and tailings management, labour, trade relations, and transportation; operating jurisdictions, including but not limited to those related to permitting and approvals, nationalization or expropriation without fair compensation, environmental and tailings management, labour, trade relations, and transportation; risks relating to mine closure and reclamation obligations; health and safety hazards; inherent risks of mining, not all of which related risk events are insurable; risks relating to geotechnical incidents; risks relating to tailings and waste management facilities; risks relating to the Company’s indebtedness; challenges and conflicts that may arise in partnerships and joint operations; risks relating to development projects, including Filo del Sol and Josemaria; risks that revenue may be significantly impacted in the event of any production stoppages or reputational damage in Chile; the impact of global financial conditions, market volatility and inflation; business interruptions caused by critical infrastructure failures; challenges of effective water management; exposure to greater foreign exchange and capital controls, as well as political, social and economic risks as a result of the Company’s operation in emerging markets; risks relating to stakeholder opposition to continued operation, further development, or new development of the Company’s projects and mines; any breach or failure information systems; risks relating to reliance on estimates of future production; risks relating to disputes, litigation and administrative proceedings (including tax disputes) which the Company may be subject to from time to time; risks relating to acquisitions or business arrangements; risks relating to competition in the industry; failure to comply with existing or new laws or changes in laws; challenges or defects in title or termination of mining or exploitation concessions; the exclusive jurisdiction of foreign courts; the outbreak of infectious diseases or viruses; risks relating to taxation changes; receipt of and ability to maintain all permits that are required for operation; minor elements contained in concentrate products; changes in the relationship with its employees and contractors; the Company’s Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources which are estimates only; uncertainties relating to inferred Mineral Resources being converted into Measured or Indicated Mineral Resources; payment of dividends in the future; compliance with environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, including changes to such laws or regulations; interests of significant shareholders of the Company; asset values being subject to impairment charges; potential for conflicts of interest and public association with other Lundin Group companies or entities; activist shareholders and proxy solicitation firms; risks associated with climate change; the Company’s common shares being subject to dilution; ability to attract and retain highly skilled employees; reliance on key personnel and reporting and oversight systems; risks relating to the Company’s internal controls; counterparty and customer concentration risk;  risks associated with the use of derivatives; exchange rate fluctuations; the terms of the contingent payments in respect of the completion of the sale of the Company’s European assets and expectations related thereto; and other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those described in the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of the Company’s MD&A for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of the Company’s MD&A for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the “Risks and Uncertainties” section of the Company’s Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2024, which are available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca under the Company’s profile.

All of the forward-looking information in this document is qualified by these cautionary statements. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, forecasted or intended and readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive of all factors and assumptions which may have been used. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in forward-looking information. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that forward-looking information will prove to be accurate and forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance. Readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information contained herein speaks only as of the date of this document. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise forward‐looking information or to explain any material difference between such and subsequent actual events, except as required by applicable law.

SOURCE Lundin Mining Corporation

For further information, please contact: Stephen Williams, Vice President, Investor Relations +1 604 806 3074; Robert Eriksson, Investor Relations Sweden: +46 8 440 54 40

Almost three million Australians will be offered refunds after Microsoft apologised for the way it charged customers to access its artificial intelligence tools.

Microsoft Australia emailed the offer to software subscribers on Thursday and admits the pricing structure and plans lacked clarity and fell short of its standards.

The apology comes 10 days after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched legal action against Microsoft Australia and its parent company in the federal court, claiming it had misled consumers about the price of their subscriptions and the availability of cheaper plans without AI tools.

The US firm could face multimillion-dollar penalties if the court finds in the commission’s favour.

Microsoft Australia began sending messages to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers on Thursday morning, outlining available plans and apologising for a lack of clarity about them.

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The plans include $16 and $18 per month packages that include access to the company’s AI assistant Copilot, and $11 and $14 “classic” subscriptions that do not include the tool.

Microsoft said subscribers who opt to switch back to the cheaper plans before the end of 2025 would receive refunds dating back to payments made after 30 November 2024.

“Our relationship is based on trust and transparency and we apologise for falling short of our standards,” the email said.

In its lawsuit, the commission alleges Microsoft misled about 2.7 million subscribers into paying higher prices to maintain their subscriptions with Copilot added and were not advised of a cheaper alternative.

Only when subscribers sought to cancel their service were they told about a non-AI option, commission chair, Gina Cass-Gottlieb, said.

“We’re concerned that Microsoft’s communications denied its customers the opportunity to make informed decisions about their subscription options,” she said.

In a statement, Microsoft Australia said the company should have done better.

“In hindsight, we could have been clearer about the availability of a non-AI-enabled offering with subscribers, not just to those who opted to cancel their subscription,” the statement said.

“In our email to subscribers, we expressed our regret for not being clearer about our subscription options, shared details about lower priced alternatives that come without AI, and offered a refund to eligible subscribers who wish to switch.”

While customer refunds could cost the company millions of dollars, Microsoft could also face large fines if the watchdog pursues and is successful in its lawsuit.

Maximum penalties for corporations found guilty of anti-competitive practices include a $50m fine, three times the value of the misleading act, or 30% of the company’s adjusted turnover during the breach.

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Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, the private share marketplace, with an offer valued at as much as $600mn as it seeks to broaden investor access to closely held Silicon Valley unicorns. 

Schwab is set to pay as much as $45 per share for Forge Global, according to two people familiar with the terms, roughly triple the price of the San Francisco-based company’s shares before the Financial Times reported that it had put itself up for sale. The price would represent a near 75 per cent premium to Forge Global’s closing price on Wednesday.

The transaction could be announced as soon as this week, though there is no assurance the parties will agree and it could fall through at the last minute. A Schwab spokesperson declined to comment. Forge Global did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The prospective deal comes just a week after Morgan Stanley acquired EquityZen, a direct competitor of Forge Global. Groups including OpenAI and SpaceX have secured valuations in private markets reaching hundreds of billions of dollars.

Earlier this year, Texas-based Schwab rolled out an alternative investment platform that allowed clients with more than $5mn in investible assets to get access to private equity and hedge fund investments. Schwab, founded in the 1970s, pioneered the discount stock brokerage business, though the company has since shifted to more formal advice offerings.

Founded in 2014, Forge Global went public in 2021 through a blank-cheque company merger sponsored by the fintech fund Motive Partners. Its shares have dropped by 90 per cent as the company has struggled to increase revenue amid heavy competition.

Charles Schwab has a market capitalisation of $170bn and oversees almost $12tn in client assets. It acquired rival digital broker TD Ameritrade for $26bn in 2020.