Freeport McMoRan Defines Its Cyclical Trough
John Robertson
PortfolioDirect
Our bottom of the cycle theme is playing out globally. In a late 1990s style market (the model for current resource sector equity market conditions), net outcomes will remain flat but trading opportunities around the mean will persist. Freeport McMoRan, the world’s largest listed copper producer, is two thirds below its peak 2011 price. Since the end of 2014, the company has traded broadly between $18 and $24. Copper market conditions will remain influential but the company value is likely to stay around the bottom of the cycle until there is more compelling evidence of an improvement in business conditions (i.e. a more sustainable and stronger recovery in copper prices than evidenced so far or a marked improvement in global growth momentum). The existing trading pattern suggests gains in the order of 33% from buying near the bottom of the trading band with a view to selling near the upper end of the range.
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John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business strategist and investment market professional for over 30 years after starting his career as a Commonwealth Treasury economist in Canberra. Since being Australia's top-rated commodities analyst and chief economist at one of Australia' leading stockbroking firms, he has advised companies across the mining, consumer products, IT and biotech sectors on their equity market relations. He leads the firm's investment evaluation and security structuring activities on behalf of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB), the world's first equity 'crowdfunding' investment platform. John Robertson discusses the interaction of mining and investment markets in his weekly 'From the Capital' column in Mining Journal.
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John Robertson
PortfolioDirect
John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business...
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John Robertson
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John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business...
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