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SCCO Southern Copper Corporation
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- Market cap
- 181B
- P/E ratio
- 32.36
- Analyst target
- 166.7691
- Dividend yield
- 1.6%
- Beta
- 1.14
Profile
Company facts
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Currency
- USD
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Copper
- ISIN
- US84265V1052
- Market cap
- 181B
- P/E ratio
- 32.36
- Analyst target
- 166.7691
- Dividend yield
- 1.6%
- Beta
- 1.14
About
About Southern Copper Corporation
Southern Copper Corporation engages in mining, exploring, smelting, and refining copper and other minerals in Mexico, the United States, Peru, Brazil, Chile, and Other American countries. The company is involved in the mining, milling, and flotation of copper ore to produce copper and molybdenum concentrates; smelting of copper concentrates to produce blister and anode copper; refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes; production of copper-molybdenum concentrates and sulfuric acid; production of refined silver, gold, and other materials; and mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver, gold and lead. It operates the Toquepala and Cuajone open-pit mines, smelter, and refinery in Peru; La Caridad, an open-pit copper mine, as well as copper ore concentrator; and SX-EW plant, a smelter, refinery, and rod plant in Mexico. The company also operates Buenavista, an open-pit copper mine, as well as copper concentrators and operating SX-EW plants in Mexico. In addition, it operates underground mines that produce zinc, lead, copper, silver, and gold; coal mine; and zinc refinery. The company has interests in 164,805 hectares and 505,788 hectares of concessions in Peru and Mexico; and 98,634 hectares and 28,453 hectares of exploration concessions in Argentina and Chile. Southern Copper Corporation was formerly known as Southern Peru Copper Corp. and changed its name to Southern Copper Corporation in July 1996. The company was incorporated in 1952 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona. Southern Copper Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Americas Mining Corporation.
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5 years, 4 months ago
Southern Copper Corporation is currently in a long term downtrend where the price is trading 4.1% below its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 29.8% cheaper than other stocks from the Basic Materials sector with a price to sales ratio of 6.9.
Southern Copper Corporation's total revenue rose by 26.7% to $2B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has increased by 93.1% to $590M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow grew by 130.3% to $852M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Southern Copper Corporation gets an overall score of 4/5.