The Deterra Royalties Ltd (ASX: DRR) share price is currently up after delivering its latest quarterly revenue update.
Deterra Royalties is a company that owns various mining royalties (based on things like revenue or production volume).
September 2021 quarter update
Total royalty receipts for the September 2021 quarter of $59.7 million. The company had three producing royalties in the period.
The company receives an ongoing royalty of 1.232% of Australian dollar denominated quarterly FOB revenue from the MAC royalty area. Additional one-off capacity payments of $1 million per one million of dry metric tonne increase in annual mine production are determined for the period ending 30 June. The current demonstrated annual capacity level is set at 59 million dry metric tonnes.
One of those was the Mining Area C (MAC) royalty, which generated iron ore revenue royalties of $59.6 million and two Western Australian mineral sands operations which generated $0.1 million combined.
The MAC iron ore revenue royalties increased by 12.9% compared to the quarter for the three months to June 2021. This occurred due to increasing sales volumes from the ramp-up of the South Flank mine offsetting the falls in iron ore prices. However, the June 2021 quarter saw capacity payments amounting to $2 million, which the September 2021 quarter didn’t.
The other royalties of $0.1 million were the same as the June 2021 quarter which also saw $0.1 million.
In total, Deterra’s royalty receipts increased by 8.7% to $59.7 million.
Turning to production and sales, BHP Group Ltd‘s (ASX: BHP) reported MAC production was 22.3 million tonnes, an increase of 19% quarter on quarter. MAC sales amounted to 21 million dry metric tonnes, an increase of 24.2%.
Summary thoughts on Deterra Royalties and the share price
The Deterra Royalties share price has declined by around 17% since 26 July 2021.
Getting access to royalties can be an attractive way to get exposure to resources without actually owning the mining company itself. Deterra Royalties aims to pay out all of its profit to shareholders each year, meaning it can have a pretty high dividend yield.
But, resources can be cyclical, so there may be ASX dividend shares that could provide more reliability.
