Erik Wetterling– Sentiment Shifts In Precious Metals – Junior PM Stocks Should Rerate Higher In 2026

Erik Wetterling, Founder and Editor of The Hedgeless Horseman website, joins me for an end of the year wrap up, and a look ahead to 2026. We contrast how different stages of companies are reacting, or not reacting, to the higher underlying #preciousmetals prices, across the #producers, #developers, and #explorers; as well as where Erik sees the most fundamental catalysts stacking up that are not being properly recognized in current company valuations. We review the continued strange dichotomy between surging precious metals prices and the lagging reactions in many junior #gold and #silver stocks from 2024 into 2025, but look ahead to when we may see more capital rotate down into the PM junior stocks heading in 2026. Since the producers can immediately monetize the higher gold and silver and platinum prices, they have run much more over the last year than the pre-revenue companies. With regards to the junior explorers and developers, he sees the metals prices as merely a tailwind to their coming newsflow and that those fundamental catalysts are much more relevant for any changes to the company’s valuation (either up or down). Erik points to the developers in the 2nd leg of the Lassonde Curve, like Montage Gold that have derisked large projects and been rewarded, or developers that successfully have moved into production, like Artemis Gold as examples of the kind of moves that other stocks may go on as this precious metals bull market matures.