Freeport-McMoRan - FCX Stock Forecast, Price & News

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Freeport-McMoRan in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" FCX shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FCX, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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16 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Freeport-McMoRan's shares. Their FCX share price forecasts range from $23.00 to $65.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $38.07 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.9%.
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Freeport-McMoRan's stock was trading at $41.73 at the beginning of the year. Since then, FCX shares have decreased by 8.0% and is now trading at $38.41.
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Freeport-McMoRan saw a decline in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 26,780,000 shares, a decline of 19.0% from the October 15th total of 33,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 16,500,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.6 days. Approximately 1.9% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 25th 2023.
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Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE:FCX) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 20th. The natural resource company reported $0.26 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.40 by $0.14. The natural resource company had revenue of $5 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $4.91 billion. Freeport-McMoRan had a net margin of 16.72% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.69%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 17.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.89 earnings per share.
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Freeport-McMoRan declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 21st. Shareholders of record on Friday, October 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.15 per share on Tuesday, November 1st. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.56%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 13th.
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Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.83%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 11.41%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FCX will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.18% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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233 employees have rated Freeport-McMoRan Chief Executive Officer Richard C. Adkerson on Glassdoor.com. Richard C. Adkerson has an approval rating of 87% among the company's employees.

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

Freeport-McMoRan's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.12%), State Street Corp (4.48%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (3.72%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.29%), Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (0.97%) and Putnam Investments LLC (0.93%). Insiders that own company stock include C Donald Whitmire Jr, Dustan E Mccoy, Gerald J Ford, Gerald J Ford, Hugh Grant, John Joseph Stephens, Kathleen L Quirk, Richard C Adkerson, Ryan Michael Lance and Sara Grootwassink Lewis.
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Shares of FCX stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of FCX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $38.41.

Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) has a market capitalization of $54.90 billion and generates $22.85 billion in revenue each year. The natural resource company earns $4.31 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.63 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 24,700 workers across the globe.

Freeport-McMoRan's mailing address is 333 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE, PHOENIX AZ, 85004. The official website for the company is www.fcx.com. The natural resource company can be reached via phone at (602) 366-8100, via email at ir@fmi.com, or via fax at 504-582-1847.