The Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE: FCX) Stock Price: Is It Overvalued?

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -1.02% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $32.98.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $33.32, falling within a range of $32.51 and $33.58. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.708 whereas the PE ratio is 25.45 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $54.84, and the low was $27.60. On the whole, FCX has fluctuated by -18.22% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Freeport-McMoRan Inc currently standing at about $47.39 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-22. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.30, with its dividend yield at 0.91%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 26.32B, with a low estimate of 5.3B and a high estimate of 5.7B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 5.47B.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that FCX’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.07, with the price of FCX currently trading nearly -7.32% and -10.65% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 43.50, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.06% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.89%. Furthermore, Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX)’s beta value is 1.66, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.15.

A comparison of Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. FCX showed an intraday change of -1.02% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -32.77%%.

Data on historical trading for Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 29.84 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 18.84 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 1.44 billion shares outstanding.

Nearly 0.61% of Freeport-McMoRan Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 85.23% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 27.87 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 1.49. According to the data, the short interest in Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX) stood at 195.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 26.02 million. The stock has fallen by -13.03% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the FCX stock heading into the next quarter.

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