Portfolio of Copper Mining Stocks

Stock prices of copper mining companies tend to follow the underlying prices of copper. Therefore, the prices of the mining stocks are quite volatile. Before you buy a copper stock, be sure you research the company and know where prices are in the copper price cycle.

Here is a table of 13 well-known copper mining stocks.

Copper Mining Stocks
Stock	Price Quote & Dividend	Interactive Price Chart	10-Year Moving Average	Dividend Growth Rate & Chart	Return Calculator	Return Map
Anglo American	AAL.L	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Antofagasta	ANTO.L	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
BHP Billiton	BHP	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Equinox Minerals	EQN.TO	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
First Quantum Minerals	FM.TO	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Rio Tinto	RIO	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Tech Cominco	TCK	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.	TRQ	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Southern Copper	SCCO	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Vale	VALE	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Vendanta Resources	VED.L	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map
Xstrata	XTA.L	Chart	Chart	Chart	Table	Map

To follow the day-to-day progress of the Copper Mining Stocks portfolio, check out the returns table and chart below. Dollar values are computed using weekly closes for stocks from Yahoo! Finance.

The 7 stocks included in the value computations are: BHP, FM.TO, FCX, RIO, SCCO, VALE and XTA.L. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $1,428.57 was invested (total of $10,000) in each stock at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2003. The 6 stocks excluded from the chart computations because of insufficient price data are: AAL.L, ANTO.L, EQN.TO, TCK, TRQ and VED.L.

Copper Mining Stocks - Return Results
Portfolio:	Copper Mining Stocks
Start date:	Jan-02-2003
Start value:	$10,000
End date:	May-21-2013
End value:	$116,134
Number prices	540
Minimum value occurred on Jan-20-2003	$9,672
Maximum value occurred on Jan-17-2011	$161,491
Total gain or loss (Start date to End date)	1,061.34%
Annualized gain or loss (Start date to End date)	26.63%
Sharpe Ratio	0.91
Total dollar value on End date of a $10,000 purchase made on Start date	$116,134
Average percent return for all possible buy/sell combinations	210.15%
Number returns	145,530
Number profitable returns (Winners)	124,265
Percent profitable returns	85.39%
Number unprofitable returns (Losers)	21,265
Percent unprofitable returns	14.61%
Winners to losers ratio	5.84

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