Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) has a beta value of 2.06 and has seen 12.73 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $71.72B, closed the last trade at $50.00 per share which meant it gained $0.53 on the day or 1.07% during that session. The FCX stock price is -0.48% off its 52-week high price of $50.24 and 34.46% above the 52-week low of $32.77. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 15.32 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 13.56 million shares.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) trade information
Sporting 1.07% in the green in last session, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, when the FCX stock price touched $50.00 or saw a rise of 0.54%. Year-to-date, Freeport-McMoRan Inc shares have moved 17.67%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 5.64%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) have changed 25.60%. Short interest in the company has seen 17.75 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.39.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX) estimates and forecasts
Figures show that Freeport-McMoRan Inc shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 41.91% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of -1.95%, compared to 11.70% for the industry. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 4.20%.
3 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $5.23 billion for the current quarter. 2 have an estimated revenue figure of $5.03 billion for the next quarter concluding in Jun 2024. Year-ago sales stood $5.39 billion and $5.74 billion respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -2.90% for the current quarter and -12.40% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -6.56% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest 2.79% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 26.54%.
FCX Dividends
Freeport-McMoRan Inc is expected to release its next earnings report between April 19 and April 23 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.30 at a share yield of 0.60%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.60% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 82.16% with a share float percentage of 82.66%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Freeport-McMoRan Inc having a total of 1,892 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are Vanguard Group Inc with over 119.06 million shares worth more than $4.76 billion. As of Jun 29, 2023, Vanguard Group Inc held 8.31% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is Blackrock Inc., with the holding of over 107.53 million shares as of Jun 29, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $4.3 billion and represent 7.50% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. As of Jun 29, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 3.12% shares in the company for having 44.77 million shares of worth $1.79 billion while later fund manager owns 34.12 million shares of worth $1.36 billion as of Jun 29, 2023, which makes it owner of about 2.38% of company’s outstanding stock.
