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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
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Anglo American
Antofagasta
BHP Billiton
Equinox Minerals
First Quantum Minerals
Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold
Rio Tinto
Tech Cominco
Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.
Southern Copper
Vale
Vendanta Resources
Xstrata


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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