NYSE:FCX - Freeport-McMoRan Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Freeport-McMoRan declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 26th. Stockholders of record on Monday, October 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Thursday, November 1st. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.77%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, October 12th. View Freeport-McMoRan's Dividend History.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 24th. The natural resource company reported $0.35 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.33 by $0.02. The natural resource company had revenue of $4.91 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.50 billion. Freeport-McMoRan had a return on equity of 22.63% and a net margin of 15.80%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 13.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.34 earnings per share. View Freeport-McMoRan's Earnings History.

Freeport-McMoRan is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Freeport-McMoRan.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Freeport-McMoRan's shares. Their forecasts range from $12.00 to $24.00. On average, they expect Freeport-McMoRan's stock price to reach $16.7056 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 48.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Freeport-McMoRan.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Freeport-McMoRan in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Freeport-McMoRan.

Media headlines about FCX stock have trended positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Freeport-McMoRan earned a coverage optimism score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the natural resource company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

Freeport-McMoRan saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 35,395,036 shares, an increase of 13.1% from the November 15th total of 31,292,463 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 17,636,546 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.0 days. Approximately 2.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Freeport-McMoRan's Current Options Chain.

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Freeport-McMoRan's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.68%), BlackRock Inc. (7.06%), Capital Research Global Investors (4.65%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (2.30%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (2.23%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.71%). 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 Capital Research Global Investors, FMR LLC, AQR Capital Management LLC, Pendal Group Ltd, Franklin Resources Inc., Point72 Asset Management L.P., Iridian Asset Management LLC CT and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Company insiders that have sold Freeport-McMoRan company stock in the last year include C Donald Whitmire Jr and Courtney Mather. View Insider Buying and Selling for Freeport-McMoRan.

FCX stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Marshall Wace LLP, Panagora Asset Management Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC and Morgan Stanley. 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 $11.29.

Freeport-McMoRan has a market capitalization of $15.82 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.

The official website for Freeport-McMoRan is http://www.fcx.com.

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]