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FCX Stock Faces Decline – What's Behind It?

Freeport-McMoRan stock is trading -26.62% below its average target price of $54.51 after dropping -3.4% during today's morning session. Analysts are giving the Large-Cap Industrial Metals & Mining company an average rating of buy and target prices ranging from $43.08 to $63.0 per share.

The stock has a very low short interest at 1.5%, and a short ratio of 1.61. The company's insiders own 0.63% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that a significant number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 85.1% of Freeport-McMoRan's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in Freeport-McMoRan

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2024-06-30 Vanguard Group Inc 8% 121,494,613 $4,859,784,520
2024-06-30 Blackrock Inc. 8% 108,287,784 $4,331,511,360
2024-06-30 Capital Research Global Investors 5% 76,344,157 $3,053,766,280
2024-06-30 FMR, LLC 5% 64,779,202 $2,591,168,080
2024-06-30 State Street Corporation 4% 62,262,646 $2,490,505,840
2024-06-30 Fisher Asset Management, LLC 4% 58,016,901 $2,320,676,040
2024-06-30 Bank of America Corporation 2% 35,059,145 $1,402,365,800
2024-06-30 Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 2% 32,059,109 $1,282,364,360
2024-06-30 Geode Capital Management, LLC 2% 28,361,959 $1,134,478,360
2024-06-30 Franklin Resources, Inc. 2% 24,944,107 $997,764,280

Besides an analyst consensus of strong upside potential, other market factors point to there being positive market sentiment on Freeport-McMoRan.

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