Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX)’s traded shares stood at 11.01 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.64. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $38.01, to imply a decrease of -1.02% or -$0.39 in intraday trading. The FCX share’s 52-week high remains $54.56, putting it -43.54% down since that peak but still an impressive 27.39% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $27.60. The company has a valuation of $54.59B, with an average of 11.16 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 17.77 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX), translating to a mean rating of 1.74. Of 19 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give FCX a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 7 advise Hold as 12 recommend it as a Buy.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) trade information
After registering a -1.02% downside in the last session, Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -2.69%, and 11.60% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 0.23%. Short interest in Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) saw shorts transact 22.54 million shares and set a 1.02 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $39 and $52 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, FCX has been trading -36.81% off suggested target high and -2.6% from its likely low.
FCX Dividends
Freeport-McMoRan Inc has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-23. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Freeport-McMoRan Inc has a forward dividend ratio of 0.30, with the share yield ticking at 0.79% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 3.73%.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX)’s Major holders
Freeport-McMoRan Inc insiders hold 0.66% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 86.44% of the shares at 87.02% float percentage. In total, 86.44% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 121.49 million shares (or 8.4606% of shares), all amounting to roughly $5.9 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 108.29 million shares, or about 7.5409% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $5.26 billion.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 45.04 shares. This is just over 3.14% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $1.71 billion. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 38.9, or 2.71% of the shares, all valued at about 1.48 billion.
