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, December 19th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, January 15th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Friday, February 1st. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.64%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, January 14th. View Freeport-McMoRan's Dividend History.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 24th. The natural resource company reported $0.11 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.07. The natural resource company had revenue of $3.68 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.86 billion. Freeport-McMoRan had a net margin of 12.12% and a return on equity of 15.77%. The company's revenue was down 26.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.51 earnings per share. View Freeport-McMoRan's Earnings History.

Freeport-McMoRan is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Freeport-McMoRan.

17 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Freeport-McMoRan's stock. Their predictions range from $12.00 to $24.00. On average, they expect Freeport-McMoRan's share price to reach $15.70 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 28.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Freeport-McMoRan.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Freeport-McMoRan in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 8 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 somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Freeport-McMoRan earned a media sentiment score of 0.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news 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 effect on the company's share price in the near future.

Freeport-McMoRan saw a drop in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 34,213,112 shares, a drop of 20.7% from the February 15th total of 43,124,890 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 23,754,343 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Currently, 2.4% 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 variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Fisher Asset Management LLC (2.23%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.56%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.47%), Northern Trust Corp (1.42%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.05%) and Iridian Asset Management LLC CT (0.56%). Company insiders that own Freeport-McMoRan stock include C Donald Whitmire Jr, Courtney Mather and Harry M Iv Conger. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Freeport-McMoRan.

FCX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., First Quadrant L P CA, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Mackay Shields LLC and Nuveen Asset Management LLC. 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 Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC, Two Sigma Investments LP, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Victory Capital Management Inc., Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Northern Trust Corp and River & Mercantile Asset Management LLP. 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 $12.18.

Freeport-McMoRan has a market capitalization of $17.65 billion and generates $18.63 billion in revenue each year. The natural resource company earns $2.60 billion in net income (profit) each year or $1.52 on an earnings per share basis. Freeport-McMoRan employs 26,800 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]