Kinross' third quarter benefited from a higher gold price than a year ago, which more than offset reduced sales volumes and higher unit costs. Adjusted NPAT of USD 591 million—USD 0.50 per share—is up 12%. It declared a USD 4 cents per share quarterly base dividend in line with its policy, up 14%.
Tasiast and Paracatu, Kinross' two largest operations by production, sit in the lower half of the industry cost curve.
Bears
Kinross sits broadly in the middle of the gold cost curve, making it more leveraged to movements in gold prices compared with its lower-cost competitors.
Kinross Gold is a Canada-based gold producer, producing roughly 2 million gold equivalent ounces in 2025. The company had about a decade of gold reserves at the end of 2025. It operates mines in the Americas and West Africa after selling its low-cost Russian operations in 2022 in response to the invasion of Ukraine. It has historically used acquisitions to fuel expansion into new regions and production growth. In 2022, Kinross purchased the Great Bear project in Canada. If developed as we think likely, it could produce an average of more than 500,000 ounces of gold per year for at least a decade, with its unit cash costs likely in the first quartile of the industry cost curve. Though Great Bear's production is likely to be replacement ounces for falling volumes at other mines.