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Vandita Pant

Chief Financial Officer, BHP Group

Search every verified Vandita Pant interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Vandita Pant, Chief Financial Officer of BHP, discussed the company's FY2026 financial results and capital allocation strategy in several media appearances in August and October 2026. She highlighted that copper contributed more than half of BHP's earnings for the first time, and noted the company declared a full-year dividend of US$8.7 billion, its highest in four years, with a payout ratio of 66%. Pant attributed the results to strong cash generation, cost control, and higher commodity prices, and stated that BHP's balance sheet strength allows it to self-fund its copper growth projects in Chile, South Australia, Argentina, and the US. Pant also described transactions aimed at unlocking value from non-core byproducts, including the sale of future silver production from the Antamina mine to Wheaton Precious Metals for US$4.3 billion. She said the company had unlocked more than US$6 billion from such byproduct transactions in the prior nine months, with proceeds directed toward growth investments and shareholder returns. Pant emphasized that BHP's Capital Allocation Framework guides decisions on growth, dividends, and balance sheet strength, and stated that the company aims for 3-4% annual growth to the mid-2030s, including 5% growth in copper.

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“This is a transaction we did on the silver for our share of the production, which comes out of an asset we co-own with some other joint venture partners called Antamina in Peru. Mainly that asset is a copper asset, but along with that comes a little bit of silver. Now silver, as I said, valuable though it is as a commodity, is not a core byproduct for us. And you will remember earlier in the year, silver prices were ”

“I think for a long-term company that we are, which invests in decades and decades of assets for value, capital allocation is a really important consideration for creating value. Let me tell you, one is how we generate cash, which comes from our core business. And then we have lots of projects in which we invest. What is our way of investing? Very productively is a very important point. To do both of these, we need to”

“We can fund our growth which is high quality and we will continue to do that. We can have strong balance sheet which is a which is a where we have ended the year as you said. And thirdly, this brings it together to say that allows us for attractive shareholder returns going forward as well.”

“More than 50%. That is the number which relates to copper contributing more than half of earnings for BHP for the first time. And this is a very exciting number.”

“Our copper CapEx growth portfolio in Chile, in Copper South Australia, in Vicuna in Argentina, and the long-term optionality in the US with Resolution, all that can be self-funded from copper's own generated cash flows, which is not what many companies can do.”

“This is the first year that copper has contributed more than 50% to our EBITDA to our earnings, and we are the largest copper producer. And we reiterated that position this year Brandon with 2 million tonnes of copper produced across our copper assets.”

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