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Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX)

NYSE / Basic Materials / Copper

Share price

70.06 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

100.70B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 13, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

16.6% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

45.79x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

1.1% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 14.83B USDFY2016 Net income: -4.03B USDFY2017 Revenue: 16.40B USDFY2017 Net income: 2.10B USDFY2018 Revenue: 18.63B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.89B USDFY2019 Revenue: 14.40B USDFY2019 Net income: -189.0M USDFY2020 Revenue: 14.20B USDFY2020 Net income: 865.0M USDFY2021 Revenue: 22.84B USDFY2021 Net income: 5.37B USDFY2022 Revenue: 22.78B USDFY2022 Net income: 4.48B USDFY2023 Revenue: 22.86B USDFY2023 Net income: 3.75B USDFY2024 Revenue: 25.45B USDFY2024 Net income: 4.40B USDFY2025 Revenue: 25.91B USDFY2025 Net income: 4.15B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 45.79x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Basic Materials sector (124 companies), 45.79x sits at the 86th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.03x to 34.97x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 16.6% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Above the cost of capital" (12.0% to 20.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Basic Materials sector (99 companies), 16.6% sits at the 87th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.5% to 12.9%.

Is it safe

Net debt to EBITDA was 0.76x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Low leverage" (below 1.00x), on lines set by credit-analyst convention, suggesting debt that a year or so of operating earnings would repay.

No peer distribution is published for net debt to EBITDA today; the year-by-year comparison uses the filed annual figures.

Year by year against peers
Whether Freeport-McMoRan Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Basic Materials sector, year by year. (FY2020 to FY2025, 6 fiscal years of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Freeport-McMoRan Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Freeport-McMoRan Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Freeport-McMoRan Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (11 readings drawn from the statement lines Freeport-McMoRan Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Freeport-McMoRan Inc., and where in its filings. (5 questions for Freeport-McMoRan Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Freeport-McMoRan Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Freeport-McMoRan Inc.)

These are FCX’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, accession 0000831259-26-000012.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Freeport-McMoRan Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax16.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Return on equity22.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Return on capital employed, pre-tax12.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Return on assets7.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Gross margin28.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Operating margin25.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Net margin16.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
FCX 16.0%
NEM 31.2%CRH 10.0%RIO 17.3%AEM 37.5%VMC 13.6%
10.0%37.5%
Net margin: FCX against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Freeport-McMoRan Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.56 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Current ratio2.29 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Quick ratio2.29 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Altman Z-score3.22 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Net debt6.67B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Total assets 58.17BTotal liabilities 27.40BShareholders' equity 18.90BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Freeport-McMoRan Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012).

Freeport-McMoRan Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets58.17B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Total liabilities27.40B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Shareholders' equity18.90B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Cash3.82B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Total debt10.49B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Net debt6.67B
Current ratio2.29
Debt to equity0.56
  • Interest cover: FY2025: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Freeport-McMoRan Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings45.79x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
P/E on trailing twelve months34.13x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book5.35x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Price to sales3.90x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Enterprise value to EBIT16.53x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Enterprise value to EBITDA12.30x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Price to earnings over growth1.52 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Diluted earnings per share1.52 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Graham number21.23 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value FCX on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Freeport-McMoRan Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc: valuation
Share price70.06 USD
Market capitalisation100.70B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA12.30x
Graham number21.23 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20251.52 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 4, 2017: low 4.53x, median 25.37x, high 129.42x, latest 34.13x. 2,059 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 252 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Freeport-McMoRan Inc

  1. Newmont Corporation (NEM)Market cap 122.00B USD
  2. CRH plc (CRH)Market cap 54.77B USD
  3. Rio Tinto Group (RIO)Market cap 146.70B USD
  4. Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (AEM)Market cap 94.97B USD
  5. Vulcan Materials Company (VMC)Market cap 32.71B USD

Same sector (Basic Materials) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Freeport-McMoRan Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield1.1% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Free cash flow1.12B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Free cash flow margin4.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Dividend yield0.9% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Payout ratio20.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
FY2016 Free cash flow: 924.0M USDFY2016 Net income: -4.03B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 3.26B USDFY2017 Net income: 2.10B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 1.89B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.89B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: -1.17B USDFY2019 Net income: -189.0M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 1.06B USDFY2020 Net income: 865.0M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 5.60B USDFY2021 Net income: 5.37B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 1.67B USDFY2022 Net income: 4.48B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 455.0M USDFY2023 Net income: 3.75B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 2.35B USDFY2024 Net income: 4.40B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 1.12B USDFY2025 Net income: 4.15B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
45.79xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.35xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
16.53xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.1%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
16.6%FY2025Feb 13, 2026
0.9%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.56FY2025Feb 13, 2026
2.29FY2025Feb 13, 2026
3.90xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.52FY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.22FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-1.94FY2025Feb 13, 2026
5/9FY2025Feb 13, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Freeport-McMoRan Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202525.91B6.52B4.15B1.521.12B25.1%22.0%10-K, Feb 13, 20260000831259-26-000012
FY202425.45B6.86B4.40B1.302.35B27.0%25.0%10-K, Feb 14, 20250000831259-25-000006
FY202322.86B6.22B3.75B1.28455.0M27.2%22.5%10-K, Feb 16, 20240000831259-24-000011
FY202222.78B7.04B4.48B2.391.67B30.9%28.8%10-K, Feb 15, 20230000831259-23-000013
FY202122.84B8.37B5.37B2.905.60B36.6%38.4%10-K, Feb 15, 20220000831259-22-000009
FY202014.20B2.44B865.0M0.411.06B17.2%8.5%10-K, Feb 16, 20210000831259-21-000009
FY201914.40B1.09B-189.0M-0.17-1.17B7.6%-2.0%10-K, Feb 14, 20200000831259-20-000004
FY201818.63B4.75B2.89B1.781.89B25.5%29.5%10-K, Feb 15, 20190000831259-19-000009
FY201716.40B3.69B2.10B1.253.26B22.5%26.3%10-K, Feb 20, 20180000831259-18-000008
FY201614.83B-2.73B-4.03B-3.16924.0M-18.4%-66.5%10-K, Feb 24, 20170000831259-17-000012
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 6.4%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 2.1%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Freeport-McMoRan Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-1.94 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000831259-26-000012
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta1.66 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 28 not met, 1 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Cash-covered dividend. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(2)
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.
  • Dividend Streak: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 2 figures could not be read on this company: Interest Coverage, Dividend Streak. 1 named test comes back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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