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Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc (FCX) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for FCX, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index HALO Growth 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

HALO Growth 100 · as of 2026-10-06

DayWeekMonth3 months
FCX−0.1%+2.5%−0.2%+26.2%
Circular Economy & Resource Security+1.0%+1.5%−5.1%—
HALO Growth 100+0.5%+0.7%−4.9%—

Against the index: 1.8 pts ahead on the week, 4.7 pts ahead on the month; against its Circular Economy & Resource Security sleeve 4.9 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 5 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “Chips and Crypto — Arm +14%, Intel +13% and bitcoin at 85,700, with bonds bid and gold sold” (2026-09-21)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where FCX appears in the diary — 5 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sector × region Materials in US: +1.3% week · −4.7% month · −0.4% quarter · +7.2% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLB.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.74 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How FCX has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.74 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc moved 0.74% on average · correlation 0.15 · higher than 73% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.30 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.67% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.69% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against HALO Growth 100 · Circular Economy & Resource Security · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

HALO Growth 100 · Circular Economy & Resource Security

Waste collection, recycling tech, critical-mineral upstream. Resource scarcity + ESG mandates re-pricing the take-back loop.

Compared against FCX on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc

FCX in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Freeport-McMoRan mines copper together with gold, molybdenum and silver across operations in North America, South America and Indonesia. Its assets include the Grasberg district in Indonesia, several Arizona and New Mexico mines, Colorado's Henderson and Climax, plus Cerro Verde in Peru and El Abra in Chile. It sells the metal to industrial buyers rather than making anything itself. The company is headquartered in Phoenix.
Where it sits in the stack
Freeport-McMoRan holds a seat in our HALO Growth 100, the growth index we run outside the megacaps, in the Circular Economy & Resource Security sleeve. That sleeve groups names exposed to resource scarcity and the tightening supply of critical minerals feeding electrification and industrial build-out; Freeport is a raw-material supplier the rest of that chain depends on.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with waste and recycling names such as Clean Harbors, Xylem, Veolia and Tomra, and with critical-mineral producers Albemarle, Ivanhoe Mines and MP Materials, under the reasoning that scarcity and ESG mandates are re-pricing the whole take-back and extraction loop. The market also compares it directly with Southern Copper.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It sits in the HALO Growth 100 and carries a Closelooknet score, strongest on momentum and weakest on valuation. The diary has quoted it in Midday 10 editions during broad commodity and market-breadth moves, without treating it as a dedicated feature name.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether copper demand tied to electrification and grid build-out keeps momentum ahead of valuation, or whether the gap between the two narrows.

Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc (FCX) trades on US exchanges, classified under Basic Materials. Constituent of HALO Growth 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 48/100 composite (momentum 76, quality 56, valuation 33) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by Barclays, 2026-10-06

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for FCX from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Barclays — target 83 from 82 Target raised to $83 from $82 (+14.3% to spot) 2026-10-06

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.83%, quarterly · buybacks 107 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What FCX pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.60 USD per share · a 0.83% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +0.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.60 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.15 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-15
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.15 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.60 USD · 2025: 0.60 USD · 2026: 0.45 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-12
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 865 m USD 26% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 107 m USD 0.1% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.1% in FY2025 121 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 972 m USD · 87% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc (FCX)?

Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc trades as FCX on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Basic Materials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is FCX in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc is a constituent of HALO Growth 100, as of 2026-10-07.

What is Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc's Closelooknet composite score?

48 out of 100, with momentum 76, quality 56 and valuation 33 sub-scores, as of 2026-10-07. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does FCX trade against its moving averages?

Reclaimed its 50-day: Closed back above its 50-day line 2 sessions ago, with the 200-day still rising beneath it. As of 2026-10-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is FCX doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc is −0.2% against −4.9% for the HALO Growth 100 — 4.7 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-10-06. Its Circular Economy & Resource Security sleeve is −5.1% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (HALO Growth 100 · Circular Economy & Resource Security), Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc (FCX) sits 9.5% below its 52-week high, 2.6% above its 50-day average; Albemarle Corp (ALB) is 52.8% below, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (IVN.TO) is 39.8% below, MP Materials Corp (MP) is 53.3% below. Put any of them next to FCX in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc had a beta of 0.74 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 73% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.67% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc?

Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc appears in 5 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Midday 10: Chips and Crypto — Arm +14%, Intel +13% and bitcoin at 85,700, with bonds bid and gold sold (2026-09-21); Morning 10: Oil settles at $107.63, the 10-year hits 4.95% and the 30-year 5.36%, its highest since 2007: chips lead a fourth down day, Oracle beats and jumps 4% after hours, Adobe beats and slips — and Asia sells its chipmakers 3% to 7% (2026-09-11); Midday 10: Semis break the 505 line at midday while bitcoin presses 80,000 (2026-08-24). What Closelooknet said most recently: And the counter-tape is this morning's three ladders, all green at midday: the Bitwise crypto index (BITW) +4.02 percent with IBIT +3.11 and bitcoin at 79,500 pressing 80,000, gold (GLD) +1.29 with the miners holding Friday's run, and… (Midday 10, 2026-08-24). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc do?

Freeport-McMoRan mines copper together with gold, molybdenum and silver across operations in North America, South America and Indonesia. Its assets include the Grasberg district in Indonesia, several Arizona and New Mexico mines, Colorado's Henderson and Climax, plus Cerro Verde in Peru and El Abra in Chile. It sells the metal to industrial buyers rather than making anything itself. Closelooknet's peer group places it with waste and recycling names such as Clean Harbors, Xylem, Veolia and Tomra, and with critical-mineral producers Albemarle, Ivanhoe Mines and MP Materials, under the reasoning that scarcity and ESG mandates are re-pricing the whole take-back and extraction loop. The market also compares it directly with Southern Copper.

Where does Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Freeport-McMoRan holds a seat in our HALO Growth 100, the growth index we run outside the megacaps, in the Circular Economy & Resource Security sleeve. That sleeve groups names exposed to resource scarcity and the tightening supply of critical minerals feeding electrification and industrial build-out; Freeport is a raw-material supplier the rest of that chain depends on. It sits in the HALO Growth 100 and carries a Closelooknet score, strongest on momentum and weakest on valuation. The diary has quoted it in Midday 10 editions during broad commodity and market-breadth moves, without treating it as a dedicated feature name.

Does Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc pay a dividend?

Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc has paid 0.60 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.83% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.15 USD on 2026-07-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 865 m USD in dividends and bought back 107 m USD of its own shares, 87% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.1% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Barclays on 2026-10-06 (target 83 from 82). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for FCX, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Copper. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.