Quick Overview of Freeport-McMoRan

By Susan Ramirez • Thursday, October 12 15:22 • Permanent Link

Freeport-McMoRan sank -2.9% today, compared to the S&P 500's day change of -1.0%. Today's losers may turn out to be tomorrow's winners, so be sure to check the stock's fundamentals before making an investment decision:

Freeport-McMoRan has moved 23.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 20.0%
FCX has an average analyst rating of buy and is -25.54% away from its mean target price of $48.25 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.47
Freeport-McMoRan has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.12 and its forward P/E ratio is 16.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.18 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Freeport-McMoRan is part of the Basic Materials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 10.03 and an average P/B of 2.08
FCX has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -59.6% and gross profit margins of 0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $404.62 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. engages in the mining of mineral properties in North America, South America, and Indonesia. It primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, and other metals, as well as oil and gas. The company's assets include the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia; Morenci, Bagdad, Safford, Sierrita, and Miami in Arizona; Tyrone and Chino in New Mexico; and Henderson and Climax in Colorado, North America, as well as Cerro Verde in Peru and El Abra in Chile. It also operates a portfolio of oil and gas properties primarily located in offshore California and the Gulf of Mexico. The company was formerly known as Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and changed its name to Freeport-McMoRan Inc. in July 2014. Freeport-McMoRan Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

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