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Institutions own approximately 88% of its shares.

BlackRock reportedly owns 32 million shares worth roughly $716 million. Vanguard owns another 48 million shares worth nearly $1.1 billion.

One major investor nearly doubled its position to 8.2 million shares. And management authorized the repurchase of 40 million shares.

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This company generates approximately $3.2 billion in operating income while carrying a market value of only around $8 billion.

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Wall Street knows the name.

Trump publicly defended the company when a major trading partner targeted its profits by raising their taxes.

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Copper Surges as Shifting Trade Policy and AI Demand Collide

Written by Chris Markoch. Date Posted: 9/2/2026.

Investors looking to capitalize on the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom have increasingly turned to basic materials, and industrial metals—copper chief among them—are having a moment that few saw coming even a year ago. What started as a trade-policy story has fused with a structural demand story, and the combination is rewriting price records almost weekly.

Copper Prices Rise on Tariffs and AI Infrastructure Demand

COMEX copper touched a fresh all-time high above $6.72 per pound in late August, and the metal has continued trading near those levels into September. Two forces are doing the heavy lifting.

First, there’s the current tariff policy. Washington imposed a 50% Section 232 tariff on semi-finished copper products and copper-intensive derivatives in 2025, later expanding the rate structure in April 2026 while leaving refined cathode largely exempt—for now.

That exemption has been enough to trigger a scramble. Traders have spent months rerouting metal into U.S. warehouses ahead of the possibility that refined copper will eventually be swept into the tariff policy, and COMEX inventories have ballooned to levels that would have seemed unthinkable two years ago.

The catch is that once copper lands in a bonded U.S. warehouse, it’s largely stuck there. So, what was supposed to be a comfortable global surplus has effectively been drained from the rest of the world. Analysts at CRU, who had projected a healthy 2026 surplus, now describe the non-U.S. market as balanced at best, with some warning that it could look like an outright deficit if the flows continue.

Second, and less reversible, is demand. Data centers have become a source of copper demand that doesn’t flex with price the way industrial buying typically does. Hyperscalers need the wiring, bus bars and cooling infrastructure regardless of what copper costs per pound.

That’s a new kind of buyer for a market that used to take its cues almost entirely from construction and manufacturing cycles. Layer on grid modernization and electrification, and you have a demand base that’s structurally higher even before tariff-driven stockpiling is factored in.

Freeport-McMoRan Offers Direct Exposure to Rising Copper Prices

Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) is the most direct U.S.-listed proxy for copper prices and the largest domestic producer of refined copper. That means it stands to benefit most if the exemption narrows.

The FCX chart confirms that story. Shares have risen from the low $40s a year ago to the mid-$70s, with the 50-day moving average now trending firmly upward and MACD back in bullish territory after a rocky spring.

Q2 2026 net income attributable to common stock came in at $984 million, or 68 cents per share. That pushed first-half net income up 65% year-over-year, even as headline revenue slipped to $7.03 billion from $7.58 billion a year earlier. The decline was driven by lower Indonesian gold and copper volumes during the phased Grasberg Block Cave ramp-up, not by weaker pricing.

Realized copper prices averaged $6.17 per pound in the quarter, and U.S. mining operations more than doubled their operating income contribution compared with the first half of 2025. That underscores how much of FCX’s earnings power is now coming from the domestic side of the business, which the tariff regime is designed to protect.

Southern Copper Combines Low Costs With Copper Price Leverage

Southern Copper (NYSE: SCCO) is the low-cost operator of the group, and its Q2 2026 numbers underline why. Revenue rose roughly 41% year-over-year to $4.29 billion, while net income jumped more than 70% to $1.67 billion.

Byproduct credits from silver, molybdenum and zinc have been the real story. They pushed operating cash costs per pound of copper down to just a nickel, from 63 cents a year earlier. That’s a cost structure in which margin expansion accelerates disproportionately as copper prices climb, since so little of the cost base remains exposed once byproducts are netted out.

The chart shows that investors understand the benefits of the company’s operating leverage. SCCO has more than doubled from its spring lows and set a fresh record above $220 in late August before pulling back slightly.

BHP Gives Investors Diversified Exposure to the Copper Boom

BHP Group (NYSE: BHP) is the diversified pick, and for readers who are less risk-tolerant, it’s arguably the easiest entry point into the copper thesis.

For the first time in the company’s history, copper generated more than half of BHP’s underlying EBITDA in fiscal 2026—about 54%, or roughly $18 billion—overtaking iron ore as the group’s largest earnings contributor.

Underlying attributable profit rose 30% to $13.2 billion for the year. BHP’s chart shows the same steady uptrend as its pure-play peers, climbing from the high $50s a year ago to near $96, though it has pulled back modestly from its late-August peak alongside the rest of the group. The tradeoff for investors is that, while BHP is less tethered specifically to copper, it also has lower concentration risk than the other names on this list.

Copper’s Rally Faces a Risk From Tariffs and Policy Uncertainty

Not everyone treats $6.70 copper as a clean read on global growth. Some analysts note that the price carries a real “policy premium” tied to tariff uncertainty and the rush to beat any rule change, rather than reflecting pure consumption strength.

Glencore’s CEO has even argued that a final tariff decision, whichever way it goes, could take some of the heat out of prices simply by ending the uncertainty. The fundamentals—AI-driven demand, mine supply constraints and grid buildout—are real and durable, but part of today’s price also reflects a timing trade that could unwind once the tariff picture becomes clearer.

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3 Earnings Season Winners That Analysts Can't Stop Upgrading

By Dan Schmidt. Article Published: 9/7/2026.

Earnings season isn’t just when companies report their quarterly results. It’s also when most stock analysts update their ratings and price targets in response to the new data released by the companies they cover. Ratings such as Buy, Sell or Hold are simple heuristics that stand in for deeper fundamental analysis, and it’s hard to hide poor performance from scrutinizing analysts. They aren’t infallible, and reasonable analysts at top firms often have different outlooks on the same companies. But when analysts begin raising their ratings and price targets in unison, it’s time for investors to pay closer attention.

That’s the theme connecting the three stocks on our list today. All recently reported earnings and received a wave of price-target boosts or rating upgrades following their conference calls. If you’re looking for stocks with more upside after a post-earnings pop, you may want to take a closer look at the following three companies.

Elastic: Guidance Well Above Expectations Leads to Target Boost Barrage

Amsterdam-based data analytics firm Elastic NV (NYSE: ESTC) was an under-the-radar earnings-season winner. Its stock has erased all of its 2026 losses, jumping almost 20% following its fiscal Q1 2027 earnings report released on Aug. 27, and it’s not hard to see why the market got excited.

Revenue and earnings per share (EPS) both surpassed expectations, with sales growing more than 15% year over year (YOY).

Operating margin also expanded ahead of company projections, reaching 16.2%, while the company added 80 new customers with $100,000 contracts during the quarter.

However, it was guidance that drove the stock’s immediate move. Fiscal 2027 revenue guidance was raised to a range of $1.998 billion to $2.01 billion, and operating margin is now projected to reach 19.2%, implying second-half acceleration from Q1’s 16.2% figure.

Zacks Research immediately upgraded the stock from Hold to Strong Buy following the report, a rare double upgrade.

Price-target boosts also came fast and furious: 13 firms raised their price estimates on ESTC, including a new Street-high target of $128 from Citigroup. The average of the 13 new price targets is $108, implying more than 25% upside from current levels.

The stock has pulled back since earnings, but all the hallmarks of a long-term uptrend remain in place. A common bullish signal, the Golden Cross, preceded the earnings release as the 50-day moving average moved above the 200-day moving average. A breakout in the MACD confirmed the uptrend, and a bullish cross of the MACD and signal lines now hints that profit-taking will soon subside.

John Deere: Strong Margins and Ag Cycle Rebound Behind Baird Upgrade

John Deere and Company Inc. (NYSE: DE) reported its results weeks ago, but Baird’s upgrade last week renewed the stock’s rally.

Deere reported its fiscal Q3 2026 results on Aug. 20, beating EPS estimates by 8.7% and revenue estimates by 16.7%. Operating margin grew to 14.4%, and management raised fiscal 2026 income guidance to a range of $4.75 billion to $5 billion, up from a previous low end of $4.5 billion.

The stock received a series of price-target boosts following earnings, but the upgrades didn’t roll in until more than a week later.

On Aug. 31, Baird upgraded the stock from Neutral to Overweight with a new price target of $800. It also upgraded AGCO Corp. (NYSE: AGCO), a competing agricultural machinery manufacturer that missedQ2 2026 earnings expectations in July.

Baird analyst Mircea Dobre is calling a bottom in the agricultural cycle, rather than making a company-specific prediction. Evercore followed on Sept. 2 with an upgrade to Outperform and a new $813 price target, reaffirming the outlook for the agricultural sector.

It may have been a sector-wide call, but the latest upgrade sent DE shares to a new all-time high. The stock has finally retaken its February peak after months of range-bound trading along the 50-day moving average, and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) has yet to trigger an Overbought signal, so this rally may have more room to run.

Dynatrace: Morgan Stanley Moves to Overweight on Healthy Demand

Dynatrace Inc. (NASDAQ: DT) reported earnings on Aug. 5, yet Morgan Stanley waited until Aug. 25 to upgrade the stock from Equalweight to Overweight, raising its price target from $58 to $65.

Analyst Sanjit Singh cited public cloud growth and enterprise AI deployment as signs of increased demand for observability, and the numbers from the report support this assessment.

Annual recurring revenue (ARR) was up 17% YOY in fiscal Q1 2027, and management raised the high end of its operating margin guidance to 29.75%.

The rally in DT shares began back in May, when the RSI dipped below 30 into Oversold territory. Momentum strengthened as the MACD lines moved above the histogram, and DT is now trading in a tight, uptrending price channel.

The RSI moving above 70 has typically been the sell signal during this run, with a bullish MACD cross acting as a corresponding buy indicator. Keep these levels in mind as you watch the stock over the next few weeks.