Southern Copper Corp/
Southern Copper Corp/ (SCCO) is listed on NYSE and classified in Copper, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in Phoenix, United States and has 16,617 employees. The company is worth $155.01B and trades at 24.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 19.1x. Revenue was $13.42B in fiscal 2025, up 17.4% from the year before. Net income was $4.35B. The share price is 16.8% below its 52-week high of $220.78. It pays a dividend yielding 2.40%. 7 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $172.86M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $20K of its stock on the open market and bought none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +266.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $4,363.74▲ +336.4%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $139.25 | $86.10 | $80.44 | $56.44 | $57.67 | $60.86 | $39.70 | $28.76 | $44.34 | $29.85 | $24.41 | $26.35 | $26.83 | $35.38 | $28.20 | $45.55 | $30.76 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 22.0% a year plus a 2.4% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 19.1 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 20.9 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 9.8x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 8.0% a year against a 9.6% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Basic Materials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RIORIO Tinto PLC | $84.14 | 11.8x | 2.1x | 5.53% | 19.31% | $136.84B |
| BHPBHP Group Ltd | $77.58 | 20.1x | 3.9x | 5.10% | 24.00% | $197.17B |
| NEMNEWMONT Corp | $114.11 | 14.4x | 3.4x | 0.91% | 25.91% | $120.24B |
| LINLinde PLC | $510.36 |
| $15.01 |
| $32.75 |
| P/E | 20.9x | 27.2x | 20.9x | 27.0x | 17.5x | 14.1x | 32.1x | 22.1x | 15.4x | 50.5x | 31.9x | 28.1x | 17.5x | 15.0x | 16.6x | 11.1x | 26.6x | 30.2x | 10.0x | 14.0x |
| P/S | 4.6x | 8.7x | 6.3x | 6.7x | 4.6x | 4.4x | 6.3x | 4.5x | 3.4x | 5.5x | 4.6x | 4.0x | 3.9x | 4.0x | 4.8x | 3.7x | 8.0x | 7.5x | — | — |
| P/B | 6.0x | 10.6x | 7.9x | 9.0x | 5.8x | 5.9x | 7.0x | 4.8x | 3.6x | 6.0x | 4.2x | 3.8x | 3.9x | 4.3x | 6.7x | 6.3x | 10.6x | 7.2x | 4.2x | 8.0x |
| EPS | $5.13 | $4.12 | $2.98 | $3.22 | $4.10 | $1.90 | $1.79 | $1.87 | $0.88 | $0.93 | $0.87 | $1.50 | $1.79 | $2.13 | $2.55 | $1.71 | $1.02 | $1.50 | $2.35 |
| Dividend yield | 3.45% | 2.12% | 2.28% | 4.65% | 5.80% | 5.19% | 2.30% | 4.81% | 4.55% | 1.24% | 0.56% | 1.30% | 1.63% | 2.37% | 9.79% | 8.15% | 3.45% | 1.34% | 12.10% | 6.47% |
| Payout | 72.89% | 57.46% | 47.73% | 125.27% | 101.52% | 72.89% | 73.89% | 106.46% | 70.00% | 62.77% | 18.00% | 36.56% | 28.57% | 35.42% | 162.63% | 90.11% | 91.80% | 40.55% | 121.46% | 90.31% |
| Profit margin | 24.89% | 32.40% | 29.64% | 24.60% | 26.35% | 31.20% | 19.76% | 20.48% | 21.82% | 11.01% | 14.48% | 14.69% | 23.12% | 27.28% | 29.11% | 34.26% | 30.18% | 24.89% | — | — |
| ROE | 32.76% | 39.39% | 36.95% | 32.82% | 32.76% | 41.86% | 21.84% | 21.91% | 23.57% | 11.99% | 13.35% | 14.08% | 23.05% | 29.35% | 40.74% | 58.19% | 39.95% | 23.98% | 41.60% | 57.35% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-24.3% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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