With 1.33 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.36 million shares. During the session, the Copper company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $97.42 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $94.67. The 52-week range on SCCO shows that it touched its highest point at $127.34 and its lowest point at $84.33 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $95.77. With its current market cap of 77.10 billion, SCCO has annualized dividend of $2.00 while the current yield stands at 2.07%. SCCO paid its most recent dividend on 1739232000, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1739232000. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.04.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of SCCO was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.40%, but this was up by 3.85% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.25% while six-month performance fell -13.69%. The stock lost -4.01% in the past year, while it has gained 7.04% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for SCCO yields 4.25 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.55. For the next quarter, that number is 1.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 7.35% for this year and -2.15% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 4.37% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 18.14%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 796.18 million SCCO shares are outstanding with a float of 87.66 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-14, short shares totaled 6.93 million, which was 86.99999999999999 higher than short shares on 1739491200. In addition to Engineer Oscar Gonzalez Rocha as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Raul Jacob Ruisanchez serves as its VP of Finance, Treasurer & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.094289996 of SCCO’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, SCCO reported revenue of $2784400000.0 and operating income of $1307400000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1546000000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for SCCO since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 3 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With SCCO analysts setting a high price target of 153.0272 and a low target of 67.97298, the average target price over the next 12 months is 99.0811. Based on these targets, SCCO could surge 58.02% to reach the target high and fall by -29.81% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 2.31% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.50246 being high and $4.23111 being low. For SCCO, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.40196. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.25 and the low estimate is $0.88. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.13.
