Miners' Output Falls Short, But By Less Than Usual -- Market Talk

Dow Jones03-09

0548 GMT - Miners' output last year fell 1% short of corporate guidance, but the scale of the miss was better than the long term trend, says Citi analyst Ephrem Ravi. Over the past decade, mining output has missed guidance by an average 2.6%, he says. Last year's miss was primarily the result of soft output of base metals--particularly copper--by Glencore, Anglo American and Antofagasta, says Ravi. "The intention of this exercise is to provide a guide to investors as to the historical track record of production versus guidance," he says in a note. "We would not interpret this as miners being consistently too optimistic as they do not/should not incorporate any major 'disruption allowance' into their estimate--that is up to investors to do." (rhiannon.hoyle@wsj.com; @RhiannonHoyle)

 

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March 09, 2026 01:48 ET (05:48 GMT)

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