Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) Leads The Pack In Pre-Market Activity
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as a pre-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Freeport-McMoRan as such a stock due to the following factors:
- FCX has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $324.6 million.
- FCX traded 19,884 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 7:42 AM.
- FCX is up 2.2% today from yesterday's close.
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More details on FCX:
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., a natural resource company, engages in the acquisition of mineral assets, and oil and natural gas resources. It primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, cobalt, silver, and other metals, as well as oil and gas. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate Freeport-McMoRan a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Freeport-McMoRan has been 40.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Freeport-McMoRan has a market cap of $12.2 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and metals & mining industry. The stock has a beta of 2.14 and a short float of 9.1% with 3.64 days to cover. Shares are down 49.4% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
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Analysis:
rates Freeport-McMoRan as a
. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its deteriorating net income, generally high debt management risk, disappointing return on equity, weak operating cash flow and generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Metals & Mining industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 793.8% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $552.00 million to -$3,830.00 million.
- Currently the debt-to-equity ratio of 1.89 is quite high overall and when compared to the industry average, suggesting that the current management of debt levels should be re-evaluated. Along with this, the company manages to maintain a quick ratio of 0.46, which clearly demonstrates the inability to cover short-term cash needs.
- Return on equity has greatly decreased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of major weakness within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Metals & Mining industry and the overall market, FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $822.00 million or 57.32% when compared to the same quarter last year. In conjunction, when comparing current results to the industry average, FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC has marginally lower results.
- Despite any intermediate fluctuations, we have only bad news to report on this stock's performance over the last year: it has tumbled by 59.89%, worse than the S&P 500's performance. Consistent with the plunge in the stock price, the company's earnings per share are down 775.47% compared to the year-earlier quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
- You can view the full Freeport-McMoRan Ratings Report.
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