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Freehold Royalties Ltd. (FRU · TSX)

Minerals & royalty — HQ Canada. Oil & gas valuation, proved reserves, production, break-even, net-asset-value and jurisdiction-risk screen.
Category Minerals & royaltyRegion N. AmericaCEO David Spyker (2017)Jurisdiction risk Low (14)

Overview

Canada's largest publicly traded oil & gas royalty company: it owns royalty and mineral-title interests (not working interests) over ~6.5 million gross acres in the WCSB plus a rapidly expanded US position, collecting a top-line share of production revenue with essentially no capital or operating costs and ~90%+ cash margins.

FY2025 delivered ~16.3 mboe/d of royalty volumes and ~C$313M revenue (US$0.23bn), ~C$235M free cash flow and a C$1.08/sh dividend (~6.6% yield); US mineral acquisitions (Permian, Eagle Ford, Bakken) now drive a growing share of volumes, diversifying away from mature Canadian conventional oil.

Valuation snapshot (FY2025)

Market cap
$2.0bn
Enterprise value
$2.2bn
EV / EBITDA
11.4x
P / E
29.4x
FCF yield
6.1%
Dividend yield
6.5%
ROACE
10%
Debt / equity
29%
Net debt / EBITDA
1.1x
EV / reserves
$51.67/boe
EV / flowing
$133k/boe/d
Free cash flow
$0.1bn

Its EV/EBITDA of 11.4x is above the 5.9x median across the 142-company universe, the free-cash-flow yield of 6.1% is lower than the 6.5% median, and at $51.67/boe of proved reserves it is richer than the $13.51/boe median.

On a balanced screen across the universe, Freehold Royalties Ltd. scores 51/100, strongest on safety (70/100). Sub-scores: value 31, quality 58, growth 51, risk 30 (higher = riskier).

Reserves & production

Freehold Royalties Ltd. holds approximately 0.04 billion boe of proved (1P) reserves with FY2025 production of about 16 thousand boe/d (66% liquids), a reserve life of roughly 7.1 years. Break-even: n/a (royalty model — no operating breakeven) — royalty income, no capex/opex

Net asset value (public-source)

For Freehold Royalties Ltd., no SEC standardized measure is disclosed (non-US filer or listed NOC), so a public-source proved-NAV floor is not computable from US filings. See the interactive screener's NAV tab for peers where an SEC figure exists.

Jurisdiction risk · production-weighted country risk

14 /100
Low jurisdiction risk
Production-weighted average of the country scores below (0 = safest, 100 = riskiest).
Country / regionProd. shareCountry riskKey jurisdiction risk
Canada58%8Stable; pipeline egress constraints, oil-sands emissions policy.
United States42%23Stable, deep; federal-lands leasing and permitting policy swings.
How this is scored. Each country's risk (0–100) is anchored to two named public indices — the OECD Country Risk Classification (0–7 official export-credit country risk) and the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (Political Stability & Absence of Violence percentile) — blended 55/45 and rescaled to 0–100. A company's jurisdiction risk is the production-weighted average across the countries where it operates. This is a pure country measure, kept separate from company & financial risk (leverage, governance). Source: OECD Country Risk Classification (CRC) as of 24 July 2025, sourced via the German Federal Export Credit Guarantees (exportkreditgarantien.de) which applies the OECD consensus country risk category directly (values 0-7; 0 = lowest risk). High-income OECD members are not individually rated by the OECD and are set to crc=0 per the model spec (US, UK, Norway, Canada, Australia, Japan, NZ, and most of Europe incl. OECD members Israel, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Lithuania, Ireland). 'ps' = World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) 'Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism' percentile rank, latest available (2023 vintage), 0-100 with higher = more stable; ps values are best sourced estimates rounded to the WGI percentile scale. Yemen not on OECD list ('./.') so crc estimated at 7. Iraq-Kurdistan and Falklands are non-standard model rows using judgment, not official OECD entries..

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Key assets & projects

AssetLocationTypeNotes
RoyaltyCanadaOil royaltySoutheast Saskatchewan / Manitoba conventional & Bakken oil royalty lands
RoyaltyCanadaOil/liquids royaltyAlberta Clearwater & Mannville heavy/light-oil royalty acreage
RoyaltyCanadaGas royaltyAlberta Deep Basin / Montney liquids-rich gas royalty interests
RoyaltyUnited StatesOil royaltyPermian Basin (Midland & Delaware) mineral & royalty interests
RoyaltyUnited StatesOil royaltyEagle Ford mineral title, South Texas
RoyaltyUnited StatesOil royaltyBakken / Williston Basin royalty acreage
RoyaltyUnited StatesOil royaltyAnadarko (SCOOP/STACK) & other US mineral interests
RoyaltyCanadaGas/potash royaltyDiversified GORR + potash royalty lands across WCSB

Five-year trend (FY2021–FY2025)

Metric20212022202320242025
Production (mboe/d)1214151516
Proved reserves (bnboe)0.050.060.070.080.04
Revenue ($bn)0.10.30.20.20.2
EBITDA ($bn)0.10.30.20.20.2
Net income ($bn)0.10.10.10.10.1
Free cash flow ($bn)0.10.20.20.20.1

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Peer companies — Minerals & royalty

TPL · Texas Pacific Land CorporationVNOM · Viper EnergyPSK · PrairieSky Royalty Ltd.TPZ · Topaz Energy Corp.BSM · Black Stone Minerals, L.P.KRP · Kimbell Royalty Partners, LPDMLP · Dorchester Minerals, L.P.VTS · Vitesse Energy

Sources

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