Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) Stock

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.

Southern Copper Corporation is led by CEO Raul Jacob Ruisanchez, employs 16,133 people, headquartered in Phoenix, US, publicly traded since 1996.

Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) stock trades at $175.47 with a market capitalization of $146.40B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 32.69, price-to-book of 13.68, price-to-sales of 11.08. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $85.61 and $221.67, and currently trades 20.8% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.91%.

On profitability, Southern Copper Corporation generates a return on equity (ROE) of 46.34% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 63.06%, an operating margin of 54.62%, a net profit margin of 34.16%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Southern Copper Corporation reported annual revenue of $13.4B, net profit of $4.3B, revenue has compounded at 10.9% a year over the last five years, profit at 22.5% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.63, a current ratio of 3.89, total assets of $21.4B, $4.3B in cash and equivalents.

SCCO has an average daily trading volume of 1,333,848 shares, a beta of 1.11.

Official website: www.southerncoppercorp.com