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U.S. Global Investors, Inc. (GROW)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Tue, Sep 9, 2025

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Transcript

Holly Schoenfeldt

Management

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for our webcast announcing U.S. Global Investors Results for Fiscal Year 2025. As you can see on Slide #2, the presenters for today's program are Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors CEO and Chief Investment Officer; Lisa Callicotte, Chief Financial Officer; and myself, Holly Schoenfeldt, Director of Marketing. Moving on to Slide #3. During this webcast, we may make forward-looking statements about our relative business outlook. Any forward-looking statements and all other statements made during this webcast that don't pertain to historical facts are subject to risks and uncertainties that may materially affect actual results. Please refer to our press release and corresponding Form 10-K filing for more detail on the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from any described today in forward-looking statements. Any such statements are made as of today, and U.S. Global Investors accepts no obligation to update them in the future. Moving on to the next slide. As always, we appreciate our loyal shareholders. So if you like one of our signature USGI hats that are featured on this slide, just send us an e-mail at info@usfunds.com with your mailing address and we'd be happy to send them your way. Okay, on the next slide, I want to briefly review the company U.S. Global Investors is an innovative investment manager with vast experience in global markets and specialized sectors. We use a quantamental strategy to create thematic smart beta 2.0 products. The company was originally founded as an investment club, becoming a registered investment adviser in 1968 and has a long-standing history of global investing and launching first-of-their-kind investment products, including the first no-load gold fund. And finally, we are experts in thematic investing, in particular, in gold and precious metals, natural resources, airlines and luxury goods, all using a quantimental approach that includes both macro and micro factors. At this point, I do want to hand things over to our CEO and CIO, Frank Holmes, who will provide a deeper macro overview of this visual and in the whole fiscal year. Frank, over to you.

Frank Holmes

Management

Thank you, Holly. Thank you very much for the introduction, and really smart beta 2.0 is very key as a dynamic investment process that we adhere to. And also from a macro point of view and our thematic ETFs, we try to cross what are the key drivers on global themes, where big government spending is going, and we right in all our perspectives that we believe that government policies are precursor to change. So we monitor and track both monetary and fiscal policies, and we comment regularly, every week in investor alert and if you're not a subscriber, I highly recommended because it gives you a good recap of these various asset classes. As you're looking at right now the DNA volatility and life is all about managing expectations. And when it comes to the stocks, volatility is very important to try to understand grasp. So when we look at the S&P and gold and grow, they all basically, it can go up or down 70% of the time, 1%, not a bit. If it's all 3% that's material. And when we look over 10 days, is 3% to 4%, so if it goes up 10% over 10 days, that means it has a change in momentum. It falls more than 4% over 10 days, usually that's a by. And I'm going to comment about how we continue to buy in those down days, especially when we get these big drought any volatility in spoke volatility in the marketplace. But here, you can see that the DNA volatility of grow is now left, which is really important to me than the Dow Jones U.S. asset managers index used to be greater -- and it used to be much more like the volatility with GOAU is or the airlines index…

Lisa Callicotte

Management

Thank you, Frank. Good morning. First, I'll start with our Slide 43 that has the financial highlights for our 2025 fiscal year. Average assets under management were $1.4 billion for the year ending June 30, 2025. The Operating revenues were $8.5 million, and we had a net loss of $334,000 or $0.03 per share. Slide 44 notes our breakout of earnings. So we have operational earnings that consist of our advisory services and then we have other earnings, which mainly consists of realized and unrealized gains and losses on our investment holdings. But both of these are dependent and will fluctuate based on stock market forces. The next slides talk about more of our detail of our operations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. Our operating revenues were $8.5 million for the year, which was a decrease of $2.5 million or 23% from the $11 million in the prior year. The decrease is primarily due to a decrease in assets under management, especially in our JETS ETF. Operating expenses for the current quarter were $11.4 million, relatively flat compared to the prior year. On the next slide, we see our operating loss for the year ending June 30, 2025, is $3 million. And we had other income for June 30, 2025, of $2.7 million compared to $2.4 million in the prior year. This was an increase of approximately $329,000, mainly due to higher investment income in the current year. In the current year, we had lower realized and unrealized losses versus the prior year. Net loss after taxes for the year was $334,000 or a loss of $0.03 per share, which is an unfavorable change of $1.7 million compared to the net income of $1.3 million or $0.09 per share for fiscal year 2024. If we move on to the balance sheet on Slide 47 and 48. We see that we have a strong balance sheet and has high levels of cash and securities. And then if we go to Slide 49, that notes our total liabilities, and these are consistent with prior year. The next slide is a detail of our stockholders' equity. At June 30, 2025, the company had a net working capital of $37.2 million and a current ratio of 20.9:1. With that, I'd like to turn it over to Holly, so she can discuss marketing and distribution initiatives.

Holly Schoenfeldt

Management

Thank you, Lisa. All right. This first slide in my section showcases our ongoing dedication to delivering original timely market insights to our YouTube and TikTok channels, Video content remains one of the most powerful tools for educating and engaging both new and existing shareholders. If you haven't already, we'll strongly encourage you to explore our YouTube channel. All right. On the next slide, I'd like to spotlight several recent interviews featuring Frank Holmes from the past quarter, including appearances on the Seeking Alpha podcast premarket Prep, FOX Business television and other major platforms. Earned Media remains a cornerstone of our marketing strategy, giving us the opportunity to share timely insights and thought leadership across a range of thematic sectors. We regularly amplify these appearances on our special media channels JETx and LinkedIn, and we featured them throughout our website content too. All right, on the next slide. Our war ETF launched about 9 months ago, and we continue our outreach and marketing efforts for this unique product and we actually just published a white paper this week on defense spending and the ETF itself, and that can be found on u.Sglobaletfs.com or to e-mail us at info@usfunds.com, I will send you that link. All right. On the next slide, I also want to quickly announce a few webcast we have in September, both of which you will be able to access a replay for. One is September 10, where we will be teaming up with the HIVE ETF team out of Europe to discuss our UCITS Travel ETF, ticker symbol TRIP or TRIP. Secondly, on September 25. Frank Collins will do a virtual webcast highlighting clear trade in the market right now and specifically, why not going to be a good time to look at exposure to defense and gold. All right. On the next slide, we always like to recap the most read Frank Talk blog post during the most recent quarter. So as you can see here, the top being focused on defense and [indiscernible] along with the attractiveness of gold. So again, that perfectly aligns with our webcast on September 25, we hope you'll tune in. And we hope you'll keep reading the Frank Talk Blog. Thank you. All right. Finally, on my last slide, I do encourage all of you to follow U.S. Global Investors on social media. We're on Twitter or X LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. So wherever you prefer to get your news, be sure to check us out. This was your up-to-date with what's going on not only with growth but our funds and, of course, the broader market insight. All right. As a reminder to our audience, if you have any questions today, please feel free to e-mail those to us at info@usfunds.com, and we will gladly follow-up with you and get anything clarified that you may need more information on. Thank you so much for tuning in today. That concludes our webcast summarizing fiscal year 2025.