Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO)
Materials · NYQ · US
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 20:16 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Southern Copper Corporation trades at $199.22, which is 29% below the $256.41 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 94 out of 100, which is a wide moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 30.4 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
SCCO dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $3.04 | 3 |
| 2025 | $2.95 | 4 |
| 2024 | $1.97 | 3 |
| 2023 | $3.74 | 4 |
| 2022 | $3.27 | 4 |
| 2021 | $2.99 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.40 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.91 | 5 |
| 2018 | $1.31 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.551 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.168 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
SCCO earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 18 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
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.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
SCCO passes 6 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
16 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Ken Fisher, Fisher Asset Management, LLC$486.08M · 0.1% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$172.86M · 0.1% of book
- Capital Research Global, Capital Research Global Investors$125.67M · 0.0% of book
- Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$76.01M · 0.2% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$69.22M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
SCCO peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Copper), then in the same sector.
- TCKRF Teck Resources Limited
- HBM Hudbay Minerals Inc.
- SFR.AX Sandfire Resources Limited
- CPPKF Faraday Copper Corp.
- GCUMF Gunnison Copper Corp
- TWOSF T2 METALS CORP.
- CPCPF CopperCorp Resources Inc.
- WCUFF World Copper Ltd.
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Common questions
Is Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $256.41, SCCO at $199.22 is 29% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own SCCO?
16 of the institutions we track reported a position in SCCO in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is SCCO's P/E ratio?
SCCO trades at 30.4 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) pay a dividend?
Yes. Southern Copper Corporation yields 2.17% at the current share price. It has paid $3.90 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 30 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
When does SCCO report earnings next?
Southern Copper Corporation is scheduled to report on 22 Oct 2026. Companies move earnings dates, so read it as scheduled rather than certain.
Where does SteadyShares get its SCCO data?
Fundamentals for SCCO come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 20:16 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.