Glencore Delivers 2025 Output Within Guidance as Copper Strategy and DRC Quotas Reshape Portfolio

Glencore ( (GB:GLEN) ) has shared an announcement.

Glencore reported that for 2025 it delivered production for its key commodities within guidance for a second consecutive year, underlining the benefits of its simplified operating structure, even as full-year own-sourced copper output fell 11% to 851,600 tonnes due to lower grades and mine sequencing at several South American assets. The group nonetheless saw a strong second-half copper rebound, higher zinc and steelmaking coal volumes, and stable energy coal output, supported by grade improvements and the contribution from its Elk Valley Resources acquisition, while cobalt production was deliberately reduced and subordinated to copper in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid new export quota rules, which are expected to keep cobalt sales constrained but allow prioritisation of copper volumes. Management reiterated its ambition, backed by newly reported resource additions at key Latin American copper projects, to grow into one of the world’s largest copper producers over the next decade, and guided that 2025 Marketing Adjusted EBIT will land around the midpoint of its upgraded long-term range, signalling resilient trading earnings despite softer realised coal prices and higher copper unit costs linked to the absence of DRC cobalt by-product sales.

The most recent analyst rating on (GB:GLEN) stock is a Hold with a £531.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on Glencore stock, see the GB:GLEN Stock Forecast page.

Spark’s Take on GB:GLEN Stock

According to Spark, TipRanks’ AI Analyst, GB:GLEN is a Neutral.

The score is driven primarily by mixed financial performance (weaker profitability and declining free cash flow despite solid operating cash generation) and a strong but potentially overextended technical uptrend. The latest earnings call was supportive with improved marketing guidance, cost savings, and shareholder returns, while valuation is constrained by a negative P/E and only a modest dividend yield.

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More about Glencore

Glencore is a global diversified natural resources company with operations spanning copper, cobalt, zinc, nickel, ferrochrome, coal and other metals, alongside a large marketing and trading business. The group is a major supplier of energy and steelmaking coal as well as base metals critical to industrial production and the energy transition, with assets across the Americas, Africa, Europe and Australia and a strategy focused on optimising its mining portfolio and expanding its copper franchise over the next decade.

Average Trading Volume: 38,838,215

Technical Sentiment Signal: Buy

Current Market Cap: £58.54B

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