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 announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, July 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Wednesday, August 1st. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.43%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 12th. View Freeport-McMoRan's Dividend History.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 25th. The natural resource company reported $0.58 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates 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 net margin of 14.87% and a return on equity of 24.01%. The company's revenue was up 39.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $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 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Freeport-McMoRan's stock. Their forecasts range from $12.00 to $24.00. On average, they anticipate Freeport-McMoRan's stock price to reach $18.0833 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 29.4% 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 decrease in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 22,871,029 shares, a decrease of 21.8% from the July 13th total of 29,238,375 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 20,075,079 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.1 days. Currently, 1.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Freeport-McMoRan's Current Options Chain.

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Media stories about FCX stock have trended positive recently, Accern reports. Accern identifies negative and positive media coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Freeport-McMoRan earned a news impact score of 0.32 on Accern's scale. They also gave media stories about the natural resource company an impact score of 42.66 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Freeport-McMoRan.

Freeport-McMoRan's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail 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 acquired 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 $13.97.

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]