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FCX·Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

$59.54
+1.64 (+2.83%)
High
$59.77
Open
$59.09
Market Cap
83.07B
52W High
$80.36
Low
$57.57
P. Close
$59.54
P/E
28.21
52W Low
$38.34
Fwd P/E
13.53
DailyIQ Est.
$82.99
Inst. Own.
74.7%
Short Interest
1.87%
Days to Cover
2.3
Div. Yield
1.03%
Next Ex-Div
~Jan 13
NewEarnings release, scored · filed Oct 27, 2026tone -5.1 vs prior release · 160 lines scoredSee the breakdown
Technical Score (1D)
91
BULLISH
News Sentiment
65
BULLISH
On Nov 5, analysts from 25 brokerage firms gave Freeport‑McMoRan a strong buy rating, with an average recommendation of 1.48 on a 1‑to‑5 scale, and 72% of the recommendations were strong buys. The same day, a performance review noted that Freeport‑McMoRan’s year‑to‑date return had lagged behind the basic materials sector, suggesting a modest headwind for investors. Also on Nov 5, Zacks.com users increased their search activity for Freeport‑McMoRan, indicating growing investor curiosity, though no new corporate announcements or earnings data were disclosed. The analyst consensus was reported to reinforce investor confidence, while the underperformance relative to the sector was highlighted as a potential concern. The heightened search activity was noted as a possible signal of anticipation for future developments, but no concrete catalyst was identified.
LOW TARGET
$33 -44.6%
1 analysts
MEAN TARGET
$79 +32.3%
19 analysts
HIGH TARGET
$90 +51.2%
11 analysts
PRICE RANGE
$33.00 - $90.00
SB / B / H / S / SS
5/18/6/1/1
DAILYIQ EST.
$82.99 (+39.4%)
Sector
Basic Materials
Industry
Copper
Exchange
NYQ
Country
United States
Website
Symbol
FCX
Description
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. is a leading global mining enterprise focused on the extraction of essential metals. The company's core business revolves around the exploration and production of copper, gold, molybdenum, and silver, among other valuable resources. Freeport-McMoRan's diverse portfolio includes significant mining operations across North and South America, as well as in Indonesia, including the prominent Grasberg minerals district. Key assets are located in Arizona (Morenci, Bagdad, Safford, Sierrita, and Miami), New Mexico (Chino and Tyrone), Colorado (Henderson and Climax), Peru (Cerro Verde), and Chile (El Abra). Incorporated in 1987 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. continues to be a major player in the global mining industry.
Bought (1Y)
0 shares
$0
Sold (1Y)
110,398 shares
$8.4M
STEPHENS JOHN JOSEPH-
Award/Grant294 shares2026-10-01
GRANT HUGH-
Award/Grant482 shares2026-10-01
KENNARD LYDIA H-
Sell3,798 shares2026-08-27
Currault Douglas N. IIEVP & General Counsel
Option Exercise15,000 shares2026-08-25
Currault Douglas N. IIEVP & General Counsel
Option Exercise65,000 shares2026-08-25
69/ 100
Bullish
Overall: Bullish
✓Revenue growing year over year
✓Positive net margin
✓Positive operating cash flow
Net Margin
3.4%
Revenue CAGR
2.1%
Current Ratio
2.29x
Debt / Equity
0.50x
Return on Equity
4.6%
Earnings Summary
In Q1 2026, the company reported revenue of $6.234 billion and EPS of $0.57, surpassing estimates of $0.477 and $0.595 respectively, while Q2 2026 revenue rose to $7.029 billion and EPS to $0.74, beating estimates of $0.682 and $0.623. The company’s revenue growth accelerated from 18% in Q1 2025 to 23% in Q2 2026, and EPS growth remained strong, reflecting higher commodity prices and improved margins. Historically, Freeport‑McMoRan has maintained a consistent upward trend in both revenue and earnings, with frequent EPS beats even during periods of commodity price volatility, indicating resilient operational performance. Recent news highlights strong Q3 2026 results driven by higher copper and aluminum prices, a 19% increase in operating income, and a 71% surge in spot copper prices, underscoring the company’s exposure to energy‑transition demand.

EPS

EstBeatMiss
$0.16$0.44$0.71$0.99$1.26Q3'25Q4'25Q1'26Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26
QtrEstActual+/−
Q4'26$1.13 - -
Q3'26$0.81$0.88+8.2%
Q2'26$0.62$0.74+18.7%
Q1'26$0.48$0.57+19.4%
Q4'25$0.29$0.47+62.0%
Q3'25$0.41$0.50+22.8%

Revenue

EstBeatMiss
$4.9B$6.0B$7.2B$8.4B$9.5BQ3'25Q4'25Q1'26Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26
QtrEstActual+/−
Q4'26$9.0B - -
Q3'26$7.5B$7.5B+0.6%
Q2'26$6.8B$7.0B+2.9%
Q1'26$6.0B$6.2B+4.6%
Q4'25$5.4B$5.6B+4.1%
Q3'25 - $7.0B -

Market Data

FCX Stock Snapshot

BULLISH91/100
$59.54+$1.64 (2.8%)
Market cap
83.07B
P/E ratio
28.2
Day range
$57.57 – $59.77
News sentiment
65/100 · Bullish
Analyst target
$78.75 (+32.3%)
Consensus
Buy · 31 analysts
52-week range+55.3% off low · -25.9% from high
$38.34$80.36
Price $59.54 DailyIQ Est. $82.99

The signal on FCX is bullish: price action is confirming the underlying trend, not fighting it. In Basic Materials, names this size usually take direction from sector flows before company-level news.

Reverse DCF

What growth is priced into FCX?

RICH

At today's price, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about 38.5% a year for 3 years, slowing to a long-run rate by year 10, to justify its valuation at a 10.85% cost of capital. Over the last five years its revenue has trended at 3.2% a year, so the market is asking for 35.3 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis FCX looks priced above what its own growth record supports.

Implied FCF growth
38.5%
Growth trend
3.2%
Growth gap
+35.3 pts
Verdict
RICH
Discount rate (WACC)
10.85%
Beta
1.58

Behaviour On Record

What FCX's own history says about today's numbers

Realized volatility (21d)
35.0% 30th pct
Below its peak
-20.8%
vs 200-day average
-3.4%
Up days (1y)
53%

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. is currently running 35.0% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against FCX's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 30th percentile — on the quiet side for this stock, against a typical reading of 41.8%.

FCX is trading -20.8% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -40.5%, and the deepest was -74.3% in 2015. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.

Price sits -3.4% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 38th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year FCX closed higher on 53% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a rising streak.

On November specifically: over 13 years of records, FCX finished the month higher 6 of 13 times, with a median return of -2.0% and an average of +4.5%. Its strongest month historically has been February at +7.8% on average, its weakest January at -3.5%.

Overnight risk is measurable too: FCX has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 226 of 3,268 sessions (6.9% of the time), with the largest gaps running +10.6% and -6.8%.

Across the last 4 dated reports on file, FCX moved an average of 1.5% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 4 times, with a median move of -0.9% and a largest of +2.1%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against FCX's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.

Sector Rotation

Is money rotating into or out of FCX's sector?

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. sits in the Materials sector, currently ranked 4th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (weakening).

Sector rank
#4 of 12
Sector state
Weakening
Sector rotation score
64

Options Market

What is the options market pricing for FCX?

CallsPuts

For Freeport-McMoRan Inc.'s nearest expiry (2026-11-06, 0 days out), open interest is call-heavy, a bullish tilt (put/call ratio of 0.35), with at-the-money implied volatility around 12.5%.

Put/call ratio (2026-11-06)
0.35
ATM implied volatility
12.5%
Total open interest
18,360

Analyst Consensus Estimates

What do analysts expect FCX to earn?

Analysts expect Freeport-McMoRan Inc. to earn $3.25 per share in the fiscal year ending Dec 2026 and $4.16 in the fiscal year ending Dec 2028, from 7 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.

Quarter endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Dec 2026$1.13$0.95 to $2.0110$8.87B8
Mar 2027$0.90$0.58 to $1.108$9.02B5
Jun 2027$1.01$0.85 to $1.216~$9.45B-
Sep 2027$1.05$0.89 to $1.216~$9.82B-
Fiscal year endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Dec 2026$3.25$2.98 to $4.2712$30.11B16
Dec 2027$4.25$2.57 to $5.3617$36.39B17
Dec 2028$4.16$2.00 to $5.397~$38.92B-

Revenue marked ~ is our calculation from the EPS estimate, not analyst consensus.

Analyst Rating Changes

Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on FCX?

Freedom Broker most recently reiterated its rating on Freeport-McMoRan Inc. to Hold on Nov 2, 2026 with a price target of $68 (from $75). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 0 downgrades, a net mixed lean.

Latest action
Freedom Broker: Hold
90-day upgrades
0
90-day downgrades
0
Net rating momentum
0
DateFirmActionRatingPrice target
Nov 2, 2026Freedom BrokerMaintainedHold$75 → $68
Oct 28, 2026UBSMaintainedBuy$88 → $85
Oct 28, 2026JP MorganMaintainedOverweight$92 → $90
Oct 28, 2026ScotiabankMaintainedSector Outperform$80 → $78
Oct 28, 2026Wells FargoMaintainedOverweight$87 → $79
Oct 19, 2026BarclaysMaintainedOverweight$83 → $84
Oct 8, 2026UBSMaintainedBuy$77 → $78
Oct 7, 2026JP MorganMaintainedOverweight$77 → $92
Oct 7, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedEqual-Weight$70 → $75
Oct 6, 2026BarclaysMaintainedOverweight$82 → $83
Oct 6, 2026Wells FargoMaintainedOverweight$70 → $87
Oct 5, 2026CitigroupMaintainedBuy$66 → $84

Earnings Release, Scored

What did Freeport-McMoRan Inc.'s latest earnings release say?

Filed Oct 27, 2026 · SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99

Tone54.5/ 100-5.1 vs prior release
Hedging words0.84per 100 words-0.73 vs prior release
Tone, last 3 releasesScale 47–67

Most important lines

  1. 1

    Includes favorable adjustments to prior period provisionally priced concentrate and cathode copper sales totaling $52 million ($17 million to net income attributable to common stock or $0.01 per share) in third-quarter 2026, $11 million ($1 million to net income attributable to common stock or less than $0.01 per share) in third-quarter 2025, $58 million ($24 million to net income attributable to common stock or $0.02 per share) for the first nine months of 2026 and $63 million ($21 million to net income attributable to common stock or $0.01 per share) for the first nine months of 2025.

    New this quarter
  2. 2

    Third-quarter 2026 sales of 105 thousand ounces were significantly below third-quarter 2026 production primarily resulting from in-process inventories at smelting and refining operations and timing of sales.

    New this quarterNegative tone
  3. 3

    Third-quarter 2026 sales of 22 million pounds were in line with the July 2026 estimate and higher than third-quarter 2025 sales of 19 million pounds, primarily reflecting timing of shipments.

    New this quarter

Peers & ETF holders

FCX peers & ETF holders

News & sentiment

What is the news saying about FCX?

FCX fell 18.1% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 46 and 70 from Oct 6 to Oct 9, then dropped to 5 on Oct 13.

Daily close and news tone, Oct 6 to Nov 6
$60$70Oct 6: tone 55Oct 7: tone 50Oct 8: tone 46Oct 9: tone 70Oct 12Oct 13: tone 5Oct 14: tone 69Oct 15: tone 68Oct 16: tone 63Oct 19: tone 54Oct 20: tone 54Oct 21: tone 69Oct 22: tone 69Oct 23: tone 86Oct 26: tone 38Oct 27: tone 65Oct 28: tone 52Oct 29: tone 49Oct 30: tone 57Nov 2: tone 61Nov 3: tone 62Nov 4: tone 73Nov 5: tone 66Nov 6: tone 50Oct 6News toneNov 6123
  1. Oct 14 -4.7%same day: Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) Falls More Steeply Than Broader Market: What Investors Need to Know
  2. Oct 22 -6.2%same day: Here is What to Know Beyond Why Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX) is a Trending Stock
  3. Nov 5 -7.5%same day: Investors Heavily Search Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX): Here is What You Need to Know

Technical analysis

How strong is FCX's momentum right now?

On the daily chart FCX ranks at the 91st percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bullish reading.

Momentum rank by timeframe0 = weakest, 100 = strongest
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Institutional ownership

Are big funds buying or selling FCX?

115 of the 217 tracked managers added to FCX in their latest 13F and 100 trimmed. Together they own 74.7% of the company, worth $66.0B. BlackRock and Vanguard Capital Management alone hold 15.5%.

115adding100trimming2unchanged
Largest holders by stake, latest 13FBar = share of FCX
  1. $7.7B positionTrimmed 3.1% last quarter
  2. $5.9B positionAdded 0.5% last quarter
  3. $4.2B positionAdded 2.8% last quarter
  4. $4.2B positionAdded 3.6% last quarter
  5. $2.6B positionAdded 1.6% last quarter
  6. $2.4B positionAdded 5.8% last quarter
  7. $2.3B positionTrimmed 14.0% last quarter
  8. $2.0B positionAdded 0.9% last quarter
  9. $1.9B positionAdded 48.0% last quarter
  10. $1.6B positionTrimmed 0.9% last quarter
Full holdings history

Congressional trading

Is Congress trading FCX?

12 members of Congress disclosed 18 FCX trades between Mar 28, 2014 and Apr 15, 2026: 7 buys and 11 sells, about $260.0K in estimated value.

BuysSells201620182020202220242026
BuySell$1K–$15K$15K–$50K$50K–$100K$100K–$250K

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How has FCX done against its peers?

Over the six months to Nov 6, FCX returned −2.1%. Of the 15 related stocks and ETFs, 5 did better, led by FNV at +6.7%.

Change since May 6, through Nov 6
−40%−20%0%+20%+40%May 6JunJulAugSepOctNov 6FNV +6.7%FCX −2.1%SLV −33.2%