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Glencore H1 2025 earnings summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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H1 2025 earnings summary6 Aug, 2025

Executive summary

  • Adjusted EBITDA fell 14% year-over-year to $5.4bn, with $3.8bn from industrial assets and $1.4bn from marketing; net income before significant items dropped 62% to $0.6bn, and reported net loss was $655m after $1.04bn in impairments.

  • Strong zinc and gold performance, especially from Kazakhstan, offset lower coal and copper earnings; EVR contributed $786m in its first reporting period.

  • Copper production weighted to H2, with 60% expected in the second half, supporting a stronger full-year outlook and guidance of 850–890kt.

  • Announced $1bn in annualized recurring cost savings from over 300 initiatives, with more than half to be realized in H2 2025 and full delivery by 2026.

  • $3.2bn in shareholder returns for 2025, including dividends and a $1bn buyback post-Viterra sale, supported by strong cash generation and Bunge share proceeds.

Financial highlights

  • Revenue was $117.4bn, nearly flat year-over-year; adjusted EBIT dropped 37% to $1.8bn.

  • Net debt at $14.5bn, up 30% year-over-year, with a net debt/EBITDA ratio of 1.08x, expected to fall to 1x post-Viterra proceeds.

  • Cash generated by operating activities was $4.3bn in H1 2025, down 14% year-over-year.

  • Free cash flow flat in H1, with spot annualized illustrative free cash flow of $4bn expected.

  • Mining margins: metals 24%, steelmaking coal 26–35%, energy coal 18%.

Outlook and guidance

  • H2 expected to deliver significantly higher earnings and cash flow, driven by copper volume recovery and improved coal prices.

  • Copper production to rebound in H2, with a pathway to 1Mt by 2028; 2025 seen as the production floor.

  • Cost savings to reach $1bn annualized by 2026, with at least 50% realized in H2 2025.

  • Marketing EBIT guidance raised to $2.3–$3.5bn post-Viterra sale, with a new midpoint of $2.9bn.

  • CapEx guidance unchanged at $6.6bn per annum through 2027.

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Glencore plc is a leading diversified natural resources company, producing, refining, processing, storing, transporting and marketing metals and minerals and energy products worldwide. Glencore plc has a pragmatic, long-term approach to the businesses in which it is engaged; its major businesses are diversified among energy products, base metals, industrials and other products, agriculture, minerals and its financial services division. Glencore sources commodities from diverse regions around the world for marketing across a number of end markets including automotive, construction, industrial production, home appliances and packaging.

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