How Worried Should Investors Be About Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX)

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) does about 14.37M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 22065046 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 75.18B USD. Its current market price is $52.41, marking an increase of 3.78% compared to the previous close of $50.50. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $52.42 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $32.72.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX) has a 20-day trading average at $49.78 and the current price is -0.02% off the 52-week high compared with 60.19% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $44.80 and its 200-day simple moving average is $40.26. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.99%, which increases to 2.99% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 70.08 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $53.09, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 1.28% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 09, 2024 when BofA Securities upgraded the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $59. Bernstein upgraded its price target at $41-$48.50.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX) stock is up 7.07% over the week and 11.63% over the past month. Its price is 23.52% year-to-date and 40.88% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 1.28 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 6.43% and return on equity of 9.97%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 46.23 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 24.40. The beta has a value of 2.03. Price to book ratio is 4.51 and price to sales ratio is 3.14.