Freeport-McMoRan Earnings Beat; FCX Stock Rises As Copper Giant Sees Long-Term Gains

Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) posted Q4 earnings that topped Wall Street estimates, but fell vs. a year ago amid lower copper prices and higher costs. FCX stock rose in Wednesday’s stock market action....

Freeport-McMoRan’s Turn to the Upside Is Just What the Dr. (Copper) Ordered

By BRUCE KAMICH Oct 24, 2022 | 01:30 PM EDT Stocks quotes in this article: FCX Copper producer Freeport-McMoRan ( FCX) finished the past week with a good upside rally on the heels of a slim earnings b...

Stocks Look Alluring for the Longer Term, say U.S. money managers

Patience in a volatile market like this year’s is a tall order. But it is the recipe for long-term success espoused by institutional investors in Barron’s latest Big Money poll. Big Money respondents ...

Oil Prices Could Short Circuit, While Copper Charges Ahead

When trying to wire up a trade in commodities, go for copper, The conductive, soft metal offers a long-term demand tailwind that makes buying related stocks on weakness a solid risk/reward. Shares of ...

Has the Correction in Freeport-McMoRan Run Its Course?

By BRUCE KAMICH Sep 02, 2022 | 11:15 AM EDT Stocks quotes in this article: FCX Copper miner Freeport-McMoRan ( FCX) declined sharply along with copper prices from April to July but now stock prices ma...

ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance Buys Freeport-McMoRan Stock

Text size Ryan Lance, chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips. Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg Freeport-McMoRan stock has slid this year, and director Ryan Lance has bought a large block of shares of the coppe...

The Climate Bill Is About to Reshape Global Energy. Here’s How to Invest.

As a rule, energy transitions don’t happen quickly. It took some 200 years for coal to supplant wood as the world’s leading source of energy. The rise of oil wasn’t that much faster. After the first o...

A Recession Is Coming. These Are the Stocks to Hunker Down In.

Eli Salzmann loves nothing better than finding a company that’s a “dog of a stock with no momentum” but on the verge of better days. At its core, that is what value investing is all about. Over the co...

Freeport-McMoRan misses on profit and revenue amid a ‘precipitous’ fall in copper prices

Shares of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. FCX, +0.58% slipped 0.1% in premarket trading, after the copper and gold miner reported second-quarter profit and revenue that missed expectations, concerns over the gl...

Looking at Copper and Freeport-McMoRan, Everyone Is Ignoring a Huge Issue

Every media outlet has written in recent weeks about the “rapid demand destruction in commodities” but I think they are missing a key conclusion.    Let’s dive into the charts and I&...

Freeport-McMoRan and Rio Tinto Stock Could Be Golden

Text size Freeport-McMoRan and Rio Tinto are top picks of Jefferies analyst Chris LeFemina. Above, copper rods used to machine parts. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Freeport-McMoRan and Rio Tinto m...

Energy Stocks Are Cheap. Just Ask Warren Buffett.

Energy stocks are on sale, after a sharp selloff since oil and natural-gas prices peaked in early June. Oil is down 18% from its high, to $102 a barrel, while gas has fallen by a third, to about $6 pe...

Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...

Freeport-McMoRan Earnings: Top Copper Play On Deck As FCX Stock Sets Up

Freeport-McMoRan earnings are due before Thursday’s open, as the price of copper continues to provide a bullish backdrop for FCX stock. X After ending 2021 around $4.40 a pound, copper has been ...

Why Barrick Gold’s CEO Is Looking to Boost Its Copper Business

Text size Barrick aims to boost its gold production to 4.8 million ounces annually by the end of decade from 4.4 million in 2021. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Mark Bristow, the CEO of one of the bi...

Gold Miner Barrick Unveils Variable Dividend That Could Mean a 3% Yield

Text size Barrick Gold produced 1.2 million ounces of gold in the fourth quarter. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Barrick Gold, one of the two largest gold mining companies in the world, plans to intr...

These 14 Stocks Paused Dividends Early in the Pandemic. Here’s Where Their Payouts Are Now.

Ford Motor is among the dividend payers that have restored their once-suspended payouts at a lower level than before the pandemic. Courtesy of Ford Text size Although there are some large U.S. compani...

Variable Dividends Are a Growing Trend in Resources and Energy. How to Play the Stocks.

For companies that pump out cash, dividends are a popular way to share some of it with their shareholders. But that cash-generation power may fluctuate, so many companies in the energy and resources s...

Miners Are Off to a Strong Start. Freeport-McMoRan Could Be the Big Winner.

Text size A vehicle collect rocks with ore deposits at a Freeport-McMoRan mining complex. OLIVIA RONDONUWU/AFP/Getty Images Investors have been waiting months for mining stocks to regain their mojo. T...

FCX Stock Leads Mining Stock Rally; BHP Breaks Out

FCX stock, BHP (BBL), Southern Copper (SCCO) and Teck Resources (TECK) raced higher on Wednesday as the copper futures price jumped near a three-month high. The metal considered by many to be an econo...

Tesla and Moderna Stock Started 2022 Differently—What History Says Happens Next

The first trading day of 2022 saw both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 finish at record highs for only the sixth time in history and the second time in 30 years. The stock market acti...