Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Sprott, Inc.'s 2026 first quarter results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. Instructions will be provided at that time for you to queue up for questions. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded today, May 6, 2026. On behalf of the speakers that follow, listeners are cautioned that today's presentation and the responses to questions may contain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S. securities laws. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Certain material factors or assumptions are implied in making forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements.
For additional information about factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations and about material factors or assumptions applied in making forward-looking statements, please consult the MD&A for the quarter and Sprott's other filings with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators. I will now turn the conference over to Mr. Whitney George. Please go ahead, Mr. George.
Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. On the call with me today is our CFO and Co-COO, Kevin Hibbert, and John Ciampaglia, CEO of Sprott Asset Management. Our 2026 first quarter results were released this morning and are available on our website, where you can also find the financial statements and MD&A. I'll start on slide four. The year-to-date highlights. A lot's happened since we spoke last time. It's hard to believe it's only four months into this year. First quarter was an exceptionally volatile quarter for precious metals. After a powerful rally to all-time new highs in January, positioning and momentum in gold became increasingly stretched. On January 29th, the market tipped, triggering gold's largest one-day decline in over four decades as systemic strategies, CTAs, and leveraged investors rapidly unwound crowded positions. The correction proved brief.
Gold rebounded sharply through February, rising from $4,663 to over $5,300 by early March. That recovery, however, was abruptly interrupted by the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. The U.S.-Israel strike on Iran and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz triggered a global liquidity event rather than a conventional risk-off response. In a scramble to raise cash amid surging cross-asset volatility, investors sold their most liquid and successful holdings, and gold was no exception. Compounding the move, central bank and sovereign demand, particularly from the Gulf states, temporarily stalled amid disruptions to oil revenue. In some cases, reserves were drawn down to fund fiscal and defense needs. As a result, gold fell sharply in March, briefly breaking below $4,100 in thin illiquid markets but has since stabilized.
Importantly, the decline reflected a liquidity-driven deleveraging and a pause in reserve flow demand, not a failure of gold's underlying investment thesis. While near-term volatility remains elevated, the structural foundation of gold's bull market remain firmly intact. Gold has since stabilized and is currently trading around $4,700. Silver followed a similar, although more dramatic trajectory to gold during the quarter. After spending the first half of 2025 trading in the mid $30 range an ounce, silver broke out in the second half of the year to close at $71.47 at year-end. Rather than slowing down in January, silver's ascent continued as speculators piled into the trade. When the precious metals corrected in late January, silver gave back most of its 2026 gains, falling 38% peak to trough.
While prices have recovered somewhat and silver is currently trading around $77 per ounce, silver has not bounced back as well as gold. Silver is both a precious metal and a critical material, which is entering its sixth year of structural supply deficit. We are optimistic about its long-term prospects as it has come way off its highs and is a long way from an inflation-adjusted peak. Despite the volatility in precious metals, Sprott managed to deliver another strong quarter, largely due to the continued growth of our critical material strategies. Our Assets Under Management increased by $5.5 billion to $65.1 billion, and we reported $1.7 billion in net sales, 96% of which came from, you know, came to our critical materials segment. These flows were broad-based, with 21 separate strategies generating positive sales during the quarter.
We continue to expand our critical materials suite with the recent launch of Sprott, the Sprott Rare Earths Ex-China ETF, REXC. This new fund was launched on April 15th and has already exceeded $30 million in assets, making it our most successful ETF launch to date. John will give you more details on this in a few minutes. Our managed equities business delivered solid relative performance during the quarter, despite the challenging precious metals market. Finally, we recorded $52 million in performance fees and carried interest in our private strategies. With that, I'll pass it over to Kevin for a review of our financial results. Kevin?
Thanks, Whitney. Good morning, everyone. I'll start on slide five, which provides a summary of our historical AUM. AUM finished the quarter at $65.1 billion, up 9% from $59.6 billion as at December 31st, 2025. On a three-month ended basis, we benefited from market value appreciation across a majority of our fund products and positive net inflows to our exchange-listed products. Slide six provides a brief look at our three-month earnings. Net income this quarter was $29.2 million, up $17.3 million from $12 million over the same three-month period last year. Our net income performance was primarily due to higher average AUM in our exchange-listed product segment, managed equity segment, and carried interest crystallization in our private strategy segment.
These increases were partially offset by higher stock-based compensation expense, primarily due to our stock price appreciating 46% in the quarter compared to only 6% in the first quarter of last year. Consistent with my comment last year that the rising stock price would lead to a materially lower amount of RSUs being granted in 2026, our total RSU issuance for 2026 was 276,943 units, down 72% from 976,550 units granted last year. Adjusted EBITDA, which excludes quarterly volatility from items like stock-based compensation and intermittent carried interest and performance fee crystallizations, was $57.9 million for the quarter, up $36 million from $21.9 million over the same three-month period last year.
Adjusted EBITDA in the quarter benefited from higher average AUM on market value appreciation and inflows to our physical trusts and ETFs, as well as higher average AUM in our managed equities products. Finally, slide seven provides a few treasury and balance sheet management highlights. As you can see here, our cash and liquidity profile continues to be quite strong. For more information on our revenues, expenses, net earnings, adjusted EBITDA, and balance sheet metrics, you can refer, as always, to the supplemental information section of this presentation, as well as our quarterly MD&A and financial statements filed earlier this morning. With that said, I'll pass things over to John.
Yeah. Thanks, Kevin, good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining our call. Turning over to slide eight, it was obviously a very eventful quarter with extreme volatility experienced in most metal prices. AUM in the physical trusts was up $3.5 billion or 7.4% in the quarter. Despite the noise and uncertainty in the market, the fundamentals for metals are very constructive, and geopolitical events have only reinforced their strategic importance. Year to date, we have witnessed all-time high metal prices for gold, silver, copper, and uranium briefly touched triple digits per pound. While many investors are currently sitting on the sidelines, we view the market pause as transitory in nature, as it is impossible to model and price risk related to the current conflict in the Middle East.
Turning to the next slide, flows were very robust in the quarter at $862 million, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of net flows exceeding $800 million. While we did experience some physical redemptions during the quarter, we are already seeing a moderation as discounts to NAV have tightened. The Sprott Physical Uranium Trust continues to attract new capital at a record rate as the growing structural supply deficit and a renewed focus on energy security is expected to benefit nuclear energy. SPUT has raised more capital in dollar terms over the past few quarters than at any time since its inception in July of 2021, reflecting this bullish outlook. Silver, as Whitney mentioned, was also a key performer in the quarter, fueled by its long overdue re-rating and catch-up trade to gold.
Shifting to our ETF product suite on slide 10, we generated very strong asset growth driven by market appreciation and net flows across a broadening range of metal segments. AUM in the quarter jumped 30% and 42% year to date to May 1st. As you can see from the groups of color-coded ticker symbols, we have developed a broad suite of ETFs over the last four years in anticipation of the secular rotation back to metals and mining. Commodity cycles run much longer than business cycles, elongated by their long CapEx and development timelines, and we continue to believe we are still in the early innings. We continue to engage with a growing list of generalist investors as they are attracted to the strong fundamentals, seek portfolio diversification, and begin to hedge against novel risks like stagflation.
At the beginning of 2022, our only two ETFs focused on gold mining stocks. Since then, through a key acquisition and an active organic product development strategy, we now offer a broad suite of mining ETFs covering precious metals, critical materials, copper, battery metals, and rare earths. This thoughtfully executed strategy is delivering strong results, and more importantly, has positioned Sprott as the go-to firm for metals and mining funds. Moving to slide 11, ETF flows reached a record $1.1 billion in the quarter. Most of our ETFs experienced inflows reflecting the broad interest across the metals complex. Momentum post the quarter and remained strong with another $184 million in net flows. Finally, turning to slide 12, which highlights our product pipeline.
As I mentioned, we have aggressively developed our product suite over the past few years to capitalize on the bull market currently underway. In 2024, we completed the IPO of the Sprott Physical Copper Trust on the Toronto Stock Exchange. On Monday of this week, we successfully cross-listed the trust on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SCOP. This represents the very first physical copper vehicle listed in the U.S. Like with uranium, we believe there's a sizable market opportunity to scale our copper trust. Copper is the backbone of electrification and other critical applications, while supply conditions remain constructively tight. Copper's growing uses outside of traditional industrial applications are driving global demand. Finally, we're very excited about our latest addition, the Sprott Rare Earths Ex-China ETF. The ticker is REXC, that's listed on the Nasdaq, which we launched in mid-April.
Investors and governments alike have realized the strategic importance of rare earth metals for technologies, defense, and energy sectors. REXC represents the first pure play rare earth ETF listed globally. It also has a unique ex-China focus to capitalize on the reshoring efforts that are only accelerating as China continues to weaponize its dominance of the global supply chain for rare earths. Initial investor response has been very positive. The fund is already over $30 million in assets in about two weeks. Finally, on prior calls, we highlighted the success of the Sprott Silver Miners & Physical Silver ETF, which has grown to almost $800 million in just over one year. Flows and performance relative to competitors have both been excellent. On April 16th, we launched a UCITS version of this ETF for distribution in the U.K. and Europe.
With that, I'll pass it to Whitney.
Thanks, John. We'll move now to slide 13 for a look at our managed equity segment. Our Managed Equities AUM grew 12% during the first quarter, despite the market turbulence, and now stands at $3.6 billion. On slide 14 is a picture of our flows. We've yet to see meaningful flows into our managed equity offerings, despite the very, very strong performance. We continue to believe that a new crop of investors will rotate into this sector once the fundamentals become too compelling to ignore. I'll now turn to slide 15 for a quick comment on our private strategies. Private Strategies AUM was $2 billion at the end of March 2026. This is a bit of a transition year for our private strategies.
We are exiting, or winding down the lending fund, L ending Fund II, and we'll begin marketing Lending Fund IV sometime mid-year, which we expect to be a 12- 18 month process. We are optimistic that we can grow our private strategies, which have failed to keep pace with the rapid growth in other areas of our business. We have an outstanding team and track record. We are currently evaluating new strategies and extensions of existing offerings. The fundamental fundraising period, as I mentioned, for the next lending fund will be 12- 18 months. Okay, I'd like to turn to slide 15 now, which should be taken, you know, closely with slide 16. This is our historical AUM growth with our operating margin.
The thing I love about the asset management business is one has the opportunity to deliver operating leverage without financial leverage. I think many have seen the AUM EBITDA progression chart before, but something new is the next chart, which shows our balance sheet progression. As you can see, we're heavily invested in our own products, back in 2000 or 10 years ago. That co-investment blue lines has come down significantly. Meanwhile, we had taken on some debt that's been completely paid off as of December 2024, the green line, of course, is the cash. Not only is our balance sheet stronger, but it's more liquid than it's ever been. Okay, slide. The ongoing Slide 17, 18, sorry.
The ongoing geopolitical conflicts are reinforcing the case for both precious metals and critical material investments. Trade disruptions have highlighted the importance of physical ownership in sectors including metals, energy, and agriculture. Security of supply is now a top priority. Despite recent volatility, the structural elements of the precious metals bull market remain intact and even strengthened by recent events. We're very pleased with the growth in our ETF product suite and critical materials franchise and believe investor demand for these strategies will continue to increase. We've worked very hard to establish Sprott as a thought leader in this space, which is resulting in a greater brand recognition from institutions, advisors, and individual investors. With our core positioning in precious metals and critical materials, we're well-positioned to benefit from what we will be a powerful rotation into real asset investments.
That concludes our remarks for today's call. I'll now turn it over to the operator for some Q&A. Operator?
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now conduct the question and answer session. If you do wish to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad.If you are on a speakerphone, please lift your handset before doing so. If you wish to withdraw your question, you may press star two. Once again, if you wish to ask a question, please press star one now. We will take a moment to gather questions. Your first question comes from the line of Étienne Ricard at BMO Capital Markets. Your line is now open.
Thank you, and good morning, team. To circle back on the meaningful increase to inflows across your ETF lineup, what has worked well for Sprott from a distribution standpoint? A refresher on your ETF strategy for new launches would be appreciated.
Hi, Étienne. It's John. Hope you're doing well. Yeah, lots of really good questions there. I think, obviously you need to have the right products at the right time when investor interest is there. I think, you know, our strategy is very simple. We want to make sure that we have developed very thoughtful products. Obviously, our products on the ETF side are passively managed. They run through very well-defined, you know, index methodologies. I think it's fair to say that the index development has a lot of Sprott DNA and our fingerprints all over those methodologies. What I'm referring to is that we have a partnership with Nasdaq, where we go through over 800 different mining companies, and we basically evaluate and score them for their exposures to different metals.
This is a very unique, I think, approach in the marketplace. As a result, you'll see our index construction process is very different. I think the really best example I can share with you is our silver miners ETF, where we have 2x the exposure relative to our other competitors. This really is playing itself out in terms of performance. We have handily outperformed our competitors because we have more targeted exposure to silver. I think the market is slowly starting to appreciate this as we educate them that not all ETFs are created equally. We have a very thoughtful approach. There's no point in coming to market with another me-too product. You really need to have something differentiated.
I think the power of our brands and our long history in metals and mining give us a unique advantage in terms of distribution. Our relentless focus on education across every investor segment globally has really paid off for us. We've obviously been educating investors for many years about the investment cases and the fundamentals for many of these metals. We often get called from institutions right around the world that wanna talk to us for our views on uranium, even though these are passively managed products. I think, you know, that clearly highlights there is an intangible value to what we've brought to market. The ETFs provide obviously a very unique distribution strategy because anybody that can access those tickers is a potential target for us.
We obviously see lots of cross-border, cross-regional interest in our ETFs, which almost provide ubiquitous distribution for us. It's a lot of pieces coming together. Obviously, market timing is important. I think this Rare Earths Ex-China ETF is probably one of our best-timed new funds in terms of what's going on in the markets and how the mainstream media is really helping to do our job in terms of educating investors around the weaponization of materials that are very important to run everything from cars to cell phones to missiles to other very important strategic technologies. You know, we're very thoughtful about how we come to market.
I think that's allowed us to bring a suite of products that's highly differentiated and also products that are not getting sucked into the race to zero, which is obviously fee compression in the ETF world, which is very widespread in a lot of the mainstream, you know, cluttered categories with lots of competitors. I hope that gives you some color on how we've approached the market. You know, I think it's fair to say that after many years of planting seeds, that we are really harvesting right now, which is really exciting.
Thanks for sharing, John. I want to follow up on the copper trust and the listing on the NYSE. How meaningful could this be in terms of raising new capital? In terms of risk, how do you think about redemption risk for this trust relative to gold or silver, for example?
Yeah. Good questions. You know, the New York Stock Exchange is obviously kind of your premier listing. Obviously, we have products listed on both the Toronto and New York Stock Exchange. What we've historically experienced is the bulk of the trading happens there. We were able to list the copper trust on the OTC market in the United States as a bridge, you quickly find out that many investor groups are unable to trade OTC tickers. We were really not gaining full access to the available marketplace. Lifting the vehicle, I think, really opens the door for access. Retail investors, obviously advisors, and even some institutional investors, and institutional investors abroad obviously have ready access to the New York Stock Exchange.
One of the enhancements and requirements that we had to implement in order to list on the New York Stock Exchange was to broaden the physical redemption feature on the vehicle from twice per year with a cap to monthly with no cap. This is a key function that allows and incentivizes arbitrage, which means if the trust drifts too much away from its net asset value, market participants will take advantage of that dislocation, buy up the shares, help to tighten that spread, and in most cases, they physically will just try to sell their shares into the market when that happens. The second off-ramp is if it doesn't happen in a reasonable amount of time, some entities will be able to tender their shares back in for physical redemption. Who is able to do that?
It's obviously investors that have a high minimum dollar amount because it is 100 metric tons minimum, but they also need to have a storage arrangement at LME or COMEX warehouses, so that's a second constraint. Obviously, that limits the number of players to typically traders and perhaps some hedge funds. They do play a role to help the fund trade tighter, and that's important for institutional interest, and it's also important because it better positions us to be able to raise new equity because we can't raise new equity in the vehicle until it trades above its NAV. It is part of the ecosystem. It has worked very well for our other physical trusts that have had the same feature for the last 15 years.
We're hopeful that these enhancements are going to accelerate the growth in the copper trust, which I think more and more general investors are starting to understand how important physical copper is. Right now, there are other funds, but they are solely focused on copper futures, and we obviously believe that physical copper right now is of utmost importance given the supply disruptions we're seeing globally.
Great. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Your next question comes to the line of Bart Dziarski at RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now open.
Great. Good morning, thanks for taking my questions. Wanted to ask around the balance sheet, thanks for that added disclosure on slide 17. You're clearly in a really strong position with no debt. Cash just keeps growing. You know, could you update us on capital allocation, and could this result if these performance continues, could this result in sort of capital returns to shareholders in some form or another? Thanks.
Absolutely. I'll take that, and maybe Kevin could add on to it. As you can see, this is all fairly new. We have a history of paying nice dividends. Dividend growth would obviously be, you know, one priority. Not only myself, but every single employee is a Sprott shareholder. You know, dividends are clearly enjoyed. We have a share buyback in place. We executed a little bit when the stock fell at the end of the first quarter, and a little bit more subsequently. You know, depending on the price level, you know, we could get a lot more aggressive on executing on that.
Again, we have We're gonna launch some new private strategies, which require co-invest. Finally, we're still always open to, you know, looking at things that might make good acquisitions that are on strategy for Sprott.
Great. Thanks for that. I guess the segue if we can into private strategy. You're looking to fundraise LF IV in Q2. Could you give us a sense of maybe what the investor mix, geographic mix you're targeting, and then what percentage of co-invest you might be looking to participate in that fund?
We gotta be a little careful about how much we talk about private strategies. Once upon a time, our co-invest was 100%. In our first lending fund, I think it was 10%. I think the standard now that we have a long record is more like 2%. I would say the fundraising would begin probably after the second quarter and into the third. We expect to have a lot of returning investors, which tend to be very large institutions. The minimums are large. They're predominantly in the U.S., but we have prospects and clients in Canada, in the Middle East. It's kind of a global audience.
Great. Very helpful. Thanks.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Graham Ryding at TD Securities. Your line is now open.
Hi, good morning. Could you just give us some color on the $50 million-$52 million of carried interest in the quarter? Was that related to the $178 million private strategies that was distributed back, or was it related to more than that? Maybe any color on unrealized carry that's currently sitting behind your $2 billion of private strategies.
Right. Hey, hey Graham, I'll tackle that. The $52 million, or $51 million specifically on the private side, it's unrelated to the capital distribution. That's related to one of our legacy funds, for one thing. I think your other question was color on any unrealized carry?
Correct. Yep.
Okay. Yeah, we can't, we can't provide color on that. As you know, the accounting rules changed a few years ago, precluding us from coming up with accruals and estimates on unrealized unless there's pretty much virtual certainty around it. Not an awful lot to provide there except to say that the investments that are chosen by the management team on that side continue to be quite compelling. We're looking forward to the future and continuing to provide value in that regard in terms of future carry. Can't give you anything in terms of estimates or outlooks or anything like that, unfortunately.
What triggered the $52 million of carried interest this quarter if it wasn't related to distributions back to the shareholders? You know, what gives you the visibility to realize on that now?
The fact that it's been it's actually been earned and paid out. The way the accounting works now under IFRS for carry is, once you've passed the critical events in the earnings process, and in particular it's actually been paid out, that's when you book it. It's essentially cash accounting.
Okay. Then your Lending Fund II, can you remind us how big that is? Because it's obviously in sort of a harvesting phase now. Then what's the size that you're targeting for Lending Fund IV?
I don't know if Whitney, do you wanna tackle the Lending Fund IV piece?
Sure. I think at peak, Lending Fund II had a committed capital of $900 million. Each fund has gotten bigger, primarily because clients have been happy and increased their appetite, each one. The record is long and strong. Given Sprott's brand, our expanded institutional team, I would love to see the next one be twice as big as the last one.
Okay. Understood. My last question, just make sure I'm sort of getting your messaging right here. Hopefully, if we are to see some resolution start to surface in the Middle East eventually, any reason why the sort of factors that were driving precious metals, previous to that situation, any reason why they wouldn't surface again?
It's certainly our expectation that we're just in a pause in a very long-term bull market for precious metals. Really, you know, driven by, you know, the fiscal situation in all the developed world. It's actually not that gold's necessarily going up so much, it's just all the currencies it's measured in are going down. The reason they're going down is because of the level of debt that exists out there and the, you know, the ability to service it. So that's still very much there, if not, you know, more so, you know, post this conflict. We do seem to be de-dollarizing, you know, in, you know, in our case. Again, I think, you know, all hard assets are, you know, in a very strong position as you look forward.
Of course, it's been decades, you know, since investors actually looked at mining companies. As we mentioned, their individual fundamentals are so strong and so obvious now, that I think we'll see continued performance, you know, from that sector and better performance.
Graham, just to answer the last half of your second question to me, the Lending Fund II was roughly about $27 million that's left.
Okay. That's it for me. Thank you.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Vritti Munjal at Canaccord Genuity. Your line is now open.
Good morning. Thanks for taking my question, and congratulations on a strong quarter. My question's around clients. How has the historically skewed more institutional, are you seeing any meaningful pickup in retail or other channels, particularly given the macro backdrop around gold and critical minerals? Is that changing how you think about distributions?
Hi, it's John. Look, we're seeing, I think, broadening interest. A few years ago, I think retail investors were kind of the lone group that were positioned in a lot of these segments. It's only been, I would say, in the last two, three, four years that we've seen a broadening of interest institutionally, it started off amongst more specialty funds with specific mandates related to metals and mining or energy transition or just general energy and power trading funds. In the last two years, there's been a clear pivot to more generalist funds. These are funds that I would say have been zero weight metals and mining for the last 10- 12 years. We're at the point now where it's impossible to ignore for a few reasons.
One, the fundamentals look really fantastic. Two, it's starting to create benchmark risk. Meaning any investor who's managing an active strategy against a benchmark with metals and mining is really starting to underperform with little to no weight in metals and mining. We're definitely seeing investors reach out to us to better understand the landscape of metals and mining, as well as investing as in Sprott, Inc., the company itself, as a proxy to gain exposure to a broad range of metals and mining. Those are discussions we just have not had for many, many years. Even though the discussions have accelerated dramatically, we still think we're in the early innings and that most investors are still very, very underweight all things metals and mining.
As understanding and acceptance and some of the legacy stigma and scar tissue fade away, we think there's more and more money to come.
That's helpful color. Thank you. I'll pass the line.
Thank you. Your next question comes from the line of Mike Kozak from Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is now open.
Yeah. Morning, Whitney, John, Kevin, and team. Congrats on the quarter. A couple of questions from me. My first one, John, you just answered it. I wanna be a bit more specific. I found it interesting in Q1 to see large net inflows to the critical materials ETFs despite copper and uranium prices that net-net were basically flat quarter-over-quarter. Do you have a good sense of just where those specific inflows came from in Q1 geographically and then retail versus institutional? That would be interesting color.
Hi, Mike. It's interesting when you look at our lineup of funds, where we have the greatest skew to institutional ownership is uranium one, copper two. Those are the categories that I think most institutions are well positioned in and are starting to build their exposures to. With uranium, it is very global in nature. We're seeing lots of interest in North America, parts of Asia, Australia. It has become, I think, a very universal investment thesis. Copper obviously is a very big metals category, and that makes it very investable and we would argue that there's even broader distribution and interest in copper. The interest in those two categories, I would say, is very institutional. The retail interest in uranium has faded a little bit.
There's some signs of it coming back. We've had very good performance and flows in the uranium mining funds in the last few months. Copper, I'd say, is more institutionally driven than retail. Sometimes we find retail are looking for things that are a little bit more spicy and volatile. We've seen, I think, greater interest in some of the copper mining funds. Our junior copper mining ETF is, you know, was one of the best performing last year, and we think that has more of a retail investor audience.
Okay. That's helpful.
Yeah. The advisor channel is very important for us, and we've been working at it for many, many years. You know, I think our size and scale of our products has allowed them to gradually get into larger and larger platforms. We have a key accounts department. They're working with some of the larger regional broker-dealers that are out there that are now adopting our products and approving them on their platform. Certainly our silver ETF has a lot of retail appeal for reasons mentioned earlier.
Some of our broad-based critical materials ETFs, both SETM, which is passive, and our active METL, again, provide an advisor with a great solution to get, you know, cross exposure without having to pick copper, uranium or silver at any one period in time. That's all resonating and, again, in the ETF business size begets size.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's very helpful. My second question, if I could, Whitney, you touched on this at the top of the call. Obviously a ton of volatility in gold and silver prices in Q1. I'm sure you guys monitor this internally, but I'm just kinda curious, what was total consolidated AUM in late January when gold was north of $5,300 and silver was north of $110? Just curious.
Kevin can probably be precise, but it was north of $80 billion.
Okay.
Yeah, that's right. It was about $85 billion, Mike.
For one day.
Yeah. That's right.
We'll see where things go over the medium or longer term here, right? I was just curious. All right. Thanks. That's it for me. That's it for me, guys. Congrats on the quarter.
Thank you. At this time, I'll turn the call back to management for closing remarks.
Thank you, operator. Thank you everyone for participating in this call. We appreciate your interest in Sprott and look forward to speaking to you again after our second quarter results. We will remain contrarian, innovative, and aligned. Have a great day.
Thank you. This does conclude today's conference call. We thank you for attending, and you may now disconnect your lines.