NYSE:FCX - Freeport-McMoRan Stock Price, News, Headlines & Rumors

Freeport-McMoRan trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "FCX."

Freeport-McMoRan announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 13th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Wednesday, August 1st. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 12th. View Freeport-McMoRan's Dividend History.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 25th. The natural resource company reported $0.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.54 by $0.04. The natural resource company had revenue of $5.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.97 billion. Freeport-McMoRan had a return on equity of 24.01% and a net margin of 14.87%. The business's revenue was up 39.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.17 earnings per share. View Freeport-McMoRan's Earnings History.

Freeport-McMoRan is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October, 24th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Freeport-McMoRan.

20 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Freeport-McMoRan's stock. Their predictions range from $12.00 to $24.00. On average, they expect Freeport-McMoRan's stock price to reach $18.0833 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 32.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Freeport-McMoRan.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Freeport-McMoRan in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Freeport-McMoRan.

Freeport-McMoRan saw a drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 22,871,029 shares, a drop of 21.8% from the July 13th total of 29,238,375 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 20,075,079 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.1 days. Approximately 1.6% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Freeport-McMoRan's Current Options Chain.

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News articles about FCX stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. Accern scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Freeport-McMoRan earned a news impact score of 0.05 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the natural resource company an impact score of 46.87 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View Recent Headlines for Freeport-McMoRan.

Freeport-McMoRan's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.88%), FMR LLC (1.77%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.00%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.95%), Iridian Asset Management LLC CT (0.76%) and Sound Shore Management Inc. CT (0.59%). Company insiders that own Freeport-McMoRan stock include C Donald Whitmire Jr, Courtney Mather, Harry M Iv Conger and Jon C/ Madonna. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Freeport-McMoRan.

FCX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Madison Investment Holdings Inc., Natixis, Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Alberta as represented by Alberta Investment Management Corp and Ardevora Asset Management LLP. View Insider Buying and Selling for Freeport-McMoRan.

FCX stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, Iridian Asset Management LLC CT, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc., Sound Shore Management Inc. CT, CIBC World Markets Inc. and Toronto Dominion Bank. Company insiders that have bought Freeport-McMoRan stock in the last two years include Courtney Mather and Harry M Iv Conger. View Insider Buying and Selling for Freeport-McMoRan.

Shares of FCX can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FCX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $13.66.

Freeport-McMoRan has a market capitalization of $21.89 billion and generates $16.40 billion in revenue each year. The natural resource company earns $1.82 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.17 on an earnings per share basis. Freeport-McMoRan employs 25,200 workers across the globe.

Freeport-McMoRan's mailing address is 333 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE, PHOENIX AZ, 85004. The natural resource company can be reached via phone at 602-366-8100 or via email at [email protected]