This month, Canadian billionaire and longtime precious-metals investor Eric Sprott has bought another 300,000 shares of Hycroft Mining (NASDAQ: HYMC), filed as a 10% owner across three Form 4 transactions: 100,000 shares at $38.28 and 100,000 shares at $39.06 on April 9, and 100,000 shares at $37.84 on April 24.
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Sprott (NYSE: SII - Get Free Report) and Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO - Get Free Report) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation. Risk and Volatility Sprott has a beta of
A portfolio with an underinvestment in copper may not translate to a clean bill of health from “Dr. Copper.” The structural shifts transforming the global copper market is creating explosive growth opportunities in the metal.
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Sprott assets under management have skyrocketed to $70 billion, proving my operational leverage thesis, as rising commodity prices directly amplify earnings without increasing fixed costs. With gold breaching $5,000 and silver experiencing massive gains, investors are flocking to physical trusts and ETFs, driving unprecedented fee revenue for the asset manager. The explosive energy demands of artificial intelligence data centers have forced uranium prices back above $100 per pound, creating a massive new catalyst for future growth.
A new year brings renewed upside for uranium, especially given the strategic tailwinds behind the metal, according to a Sprott Uranium Report from Sprott Asset Management's Director of ETF Product Management Jacob White. As White noted, the uranium market entered 2026 with strong momentum.
Copper ended 2025 with a strong rally that's persisting into the first month of the new year. Jacob White, Sprott Asset Management Director of ETF Product Management, highlighted the fundamental drivers that could help push copper to greater heights this year in the latest Sprott Copper Report.
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Given gold's stratospheric rally last year, it might seem that ETF provider Sprott would see the most inflows in their funds related to the precious metal. However, after 2025 was said and done, it was the Sprott Silver Miners & Physical Silver ETF (SLVR) at the top spot with about $450 million inflows.
Nuclear energy is an underappreciated solution to solving the problem of AI data center power demand. Uranium supplies are already tight, and energy demand is set to accelerate over the next several years.