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NYSE · US/Peru · Copper

SCCO Southern Copper

Large copper reserves

Tight but sold off Its supply chain is tightening but the stock is below its 50-day average — price and fundamentals disagree. (automatic: supply-chain trend + price vs 50-day average)
Last close (delayed) · 2026-10-26
$187.1
+1.12% today
1W
−7.3%
1M
−8.2%
3M
+6.4%
YTD
+36.5%
1Y
+53.6%
Off 52w high
−14.8%
Next earnings (est.): 2026-10-22
Market cap$156B
P/E (trailing)24.6Forward 24.2
EV / sales9.1×EV/EBITDA 14.2×
Revenue (TTM)$17.11BGrowth 39.1% y/y
Margins65.8%gross · op 59.9%
Free cash flow$5.67BCash $8.06B · debt $8.51B
Analyst target$179.6−4.0% upside · 17 analysts · underperform
Riskβ 1.12Short 10.9% of float · yield 2.4%

Fundamentals from public market data, refreshed daily (2026-10-24 02:59 UTC). Figures in reporting currency.

SCCO · price with what management and the data said

Supply tighteningBeat / raiseMiss / cutData releaseEasing Hover a numbered marker for details · dashed lines = 50- and 200-day averages

Timeline: management commentary, data & earnings

8 events
  1. 8
    2026-10-19EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 2.15 vs 2 expected (+7.7% surprise).

  2. 7
    2026-07-20EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.99 vs 1.92 expected (+3.2% surprise).

  3. 6
    2026-04-27EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.88 vs 1.77 expected (+6.2% surprise).

  4. 5
    2026-01-28EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.51 vs 1.48 expected (+2.2% surprise).

  5. 4
    2025-10-27EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.3 vs 1.21 expected (+7.4% surprise).

  6. 3
    2025-07-29EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.16 vs 1.06 expected (+9.6% surprise).

  7. 2
    2025-04-24EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.12 vs 1.07 expected (+4.8% surprise).

  8. 1
    2025-02-12EarningsMiss / cut

    Reported EPS 0.95 vs 0.96 expected (-1.1% surprise).

Alternative data that moves SCCO

Earnings history

EPS vs expectations
DateExpected EPSReported EPSSurprise
2026-10-192.02.15+7.7%
2026-07-201.921.99+3.2%
2026-04-271.771.88+6.2%
2026-01-281.481.51+2.2%
2025-10-271.211.3+7.4%
2025-07-291.061.16+9.6%
2025-04-241.071.12+4.8%
2025-02-120.960.95−1.1%
2024-10-221.031.07+3.9%
2024-07-190.991.13+14.3%
2024-04-240.70.87+24.9%
2024-02-020.660.53−19.9%
2023-10-250.70.73+4.9%
2023-07-280.750.65−13.1%
2023-04-270.930.96+3.0%
2023-02-010.741.07+45.2%
2022-10-280.490.61+24.7%
2022-07-270.90.51−42.8%
2022-05-030.990.93−6.1%
2022-02-010.990.99+0.1%
2021-10-251.081.03−4.6%
2021-07-251.081.11+2.3%
2021-04-260.830.91+8.9%
2021-01-240.630.7+10.8%

About Southern Copper

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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-p…

16,617 employees · Phoenix, United States

Grids, transformers, data centres and EVs all draw on copper. New mines take a decade or more; grades are falling.

Mine→Concentrate→Smelter→Cathode

What would prove us wrong. Weakens if demand forecasts for grids and data centres fall while mine supply surprises up.

Peers at the same bottleneck

Who else supplies this

StockRoleLast1D1MYTDTrend
FCX
Freeport-McMoRan
Large copper producer $65.21+0.04%−9.6%+29.6%
TECK
Teck Resources
Copper growth projects $60.34+2.18%−8.6%+26.6%
IVN.TO
Ivanhoe Mines
High-grade Kamoa-Kakula copper C$9.22+0.71%−22.8%−40.9%
ANTO.L
Antofagasta
Chilean copper producer 3,174.0p+4.13%−14.9%−3.2%
BHP
BHP Group
Largest copper miner by resources $79.09+1.59%−6.9%+36.5%

Not investment advice. Prices delayed and in local currency. Quotes in "double quotes" are verbatim as reported by the linked source; other commentary is our paraphrase. Earnings dates are estimates.