Currently, there are 1.44B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.43B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -2.21% and -21.84% over the past three months. FCX shares are trading -5.65% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -9.07% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $35.46 and touched a high of $54.96 over the same period. FCX has an average intraday trading volume of 12.40 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -6.28%, -10.81%, and -21.19% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE: FCX) shares accounts for 84.56% of the company’s 1.44B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $51.53B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.85. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 27.67, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.30. The company has a PEG of 1.30 and a Quick Ratio of 1.18 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.51. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.03% over the week and 3.05% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 14.85%, and 35.89% over the next financial year.
Jefferies coverage for the Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX) stock in a research note released on January 24, 2025 offered a Hold rating with a price target of $40. Bernstein was of a view on January 07, 2025 that the stock is Mkt Perform, while Scotiabank gave the stock Sector Perform rating on September 30, 2024, issuing a price target of $52. UBS on their part issued Buy rating on September 04, 2024.
