NYSE:SCCO - Southern Copper Stock Price, Forecast & News

Southern Copper trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SCCO."

Southern Copper announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, October 18th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 7th will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Thursday, November 21st. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.49%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 6th. View Southern Copper's Dividend History.

Southern Copper Corp (NYSE:SCCO) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 24th. The basic materials company reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.50 by $0.02. The basic materials company earned $1.72 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.80 billion. Southern Copper had a return on equity of 21.86% and a net margin of 20.68%. View Southern Copper's Earnings History.

Southern Copper is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 25th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Southern Copper.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Southern Copper's stock. Their forecasts range from $32.00 to $46.00. On average, they expect Southern Copper's share price to reach $38.43 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Southern Copper.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southern Copper in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Southern Copper.

Headlines about SCCO stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Southern Copper earned a coverage optimism score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the basic materials company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Southern Copper.

Southern Copper saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 4,530,000 shares, a decrease of 9.8% from the December 31st total of 5,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 682,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.6 days. Currently, 5.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Southern Copper's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Southern Copper include Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Compass Minerals International (CMP), Materion (MTRN), SunCoke Energy (SXC), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Ferroglobe (GSM), General Moly (GMO), United States Antimony (UAMY) and Revett Mining Company, Inc. (DE) (RVM).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Southern Copper investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), B2Gold (BTG), Applied Materials (AMAT), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (BVN), Intel (INTC), Newmont Goldcorp (NEM), Barrick Gold (GOLD) and Cummins (CMI).

Southern Copper's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (0.48%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.17%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.16%), Westwood Holdings Group Inc. (0.09%), Bollard Group LLC (0.09%) and Bank of America Corp DE (0.08%). Company insiders that own Southern Copper stock include Bonilla Luis Miguel Palomino, Quintanilla Daniel Muniz and Sanchez Mejorada Enri Castillo. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Southern Copper.

SCCO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Man Group plc, Swiss National Bank, TD Asset Management Inc., Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Denali Advisors LLC, Sei Investments Co., Janus Henderson Group PLC and IndexIQ Advisors LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Southern Copper.

SCCO stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., New York State Common Retirement Fund, Financial Sense Advisors Inc., Acadian Asset Management LLC and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Southern Copper.

Shares of SCCO 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SCCO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $35.65.

Southern Copper has a market capitalization of $27.56 billion and generates $7.10 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $1.54 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.00 on an earnings per share basis. Southern Copper employs 13,899 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Southern Copper.

The official website for Southern Copper is http://www.southerncoppercorp.com/.

Southern Copper's mailing address is 1440 EAST MISSOURI AVENUE SUITE 160, PHOENIX AZ, 85014. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 602-264-1375 or via email at [email protected]