FY2021
Liquidity rebuilt
Net financing supported the cash recovery while operating activities consumed funds.
ASX: EMH · Five-year financial review
(ASX: EMH) European Metals Holdings Financial Review - FY2021~25
European Metals Holdings’ financial review follows its equity-accounted Cinovec exposure through funding, study work and a fiscal-year change. The June-year series and the six-month transition are separated from calendar 2025, when cash fell and Geomet funding obligations remained significant.
Reading the figures: Units are stated above each table or beside the metric. Brackets denote negative amounts. Supported nil is shown as zero; unlike reporting bases remain separately labelled.
Dec 2025 cash
A$0.397m
Not the June 2025 balance.
Net loss
A$8.211m
Calendar-year group result.
Loan-disposal loss
A$2.117m
Included in the net loss.
Geomet interest
49%
Equity-accounted associate.
Five years in context
EMH has a 49% interest in Geomet, with significant influence rather than control or joint control. Cinovec project forecasts therefore are not consolidated production revenue, and the project’s full asset base is not EMH’s reported asset total.
The prior-period change to December year end creates an extra six-month reporting period. This review uses June 2024 annual comparatives for the five annual columns and shows July-December 2024 separately.
Events behind the numbers
FY2022
Funding expands
Net financing increased cash at June year end.
FY2023
Cash advanced to associate
Payments to the associate account for most investing cash outflow.
FY2024
Associate investment and reporting reset
The June year includes further associate investment; a separate six-month transition then moves the year end to December.
FY2025
Cash call and loan refinancing
Geomet funding was supported by placement and Dukla-loan refinancing; the loan derecognition generated a disposal loss.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 01
An associate investment is not available cash
The cash balance is small relative to reported assets. Maintaining the Geomet interest depends on meeting proportional cash calls; failure could lead to dilution under the shareholder agreement.
Cash at the selected balance dates
A$ million
Cash and equivalents
AI-generated presentation · values from Balance dates - June 2021-2024 and December 2025; no missing values plotted as zero.
Reported assets and equity
A$ million
Total assetsTotal equity
AI-generated presentation · values from Balance dates - June 2021-2024 and December 2025; no missing values plotted as zero.
Balance dates - June 2021-2024 and December 2025
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and equivalents | 7.881 | 19.056 | 8.893 | 4.727 | 0.397 |
| Total assets | 25.915 | 36.973 | 37.268 | 37.318 | 35.147 |
| Total equity | 25.278 | 35.800 | 36.307 | 36.483 | 32.211 |
FY2021-FY2024 columns are 30 June; FY2025 is 31 December. The intervening six-month transition is shown separately below. Geomet is equity-accounted, not consolidated line by line.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 02
Track funding and the transition separately
The FY2025 loan sale generated cash but also a loss; associate investment payments exceeded disposal proceeds. Neither a study valuation nor proposed project capacity is cash available to EMH.
Annual loss versus operating cash
A$ million
Loss after taxNet operating cash flow
AI-generated presentation · values from Twelve-month losses and operating cash; no missing values plotted as zero.
Annual investing and net financing
A$ million
Net investing cash flowNet financing cash flow
AI-generated presentation · values from Twelve-month investing and financing; no missing values plotted as zero.
Twelve-month losses and operating cash
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss after tax | (3.962) | (6.803) | (5.928) | (3.356) | (8.211) |
| Net operating cash flow | (2.292) | (2.577) | (1.840) | (3.422) | (1.146) |
FY2021-FY2024 end June; FY2025 is calendar 2025. Do not read these as five uninterrupted June fiscal years.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Twelve-month investing and financing
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net investing cash flow | 0.000 | 0.000 | (8.424) | (11.395) | (5.416) |
| Net financing cash flow | 10.111 | 13.757 | (0.049) | 10.943 | 3.515 |
FY2021-FY2022 investing dashes denote no net investing cash flow, consistent with the cash reconciliation.
FY2025 investing combines Geomet investment payments and proceeds from disposal of the Dukla loan; it is not gross project spending.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
The six-month transition - July to December 2024
A$ million
| Metric | 6m to Dec 2024 |
|---|---|
| Loss after tax | (1.251) |
| Operating cash flow | (1.274) |
| Financing cash flow | (0.044) |
| Closing cash | 3.524 |
This additional transition period is not annualised or hidden inside FY2024. Closing cash includes A$0.115m exchange-rate effect.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 03
The financing condition remains central
The issuer reports no ready access to credit facilities and relies primarily on equity funding. Material going-concern uncertainty relates specifically to sustaining its current Geomet ownership strategy.
The 2025 statutory loss includes equity-accounted associate losses and the Dukla loan-disposal loss. The December DFS’s forecast production and returns are not operating actuals or a valuation of listed EMH shares.
Reading the figures
- Five annual columns are supplemented by a six-month transition; no annualisation or invented June 2025 balance is used.
- The 49% associate interest is not used to scale every project figure into a consolidated financial item.
- Prepared from existing year-by-year extraction records only. No raw-source retrieval, database query, financial web research or MiniMax call. Primary-author review, not an independent original-document audit; published.
Annual-report source registry
- European Metals Holdings - Annual Report to shareholdersExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
- European Metals Holdings - Annual Report to ShareholdersExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
- European Metals Holdings - Annual Report to shareholdersExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
- European Metals Holdings - Transitional Annual Report to ShareholdersExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
- European Metals Holdings - Annual Report to ShareholdersExisting annual extraction, including separately identified historical comparatives.
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