What Is Going On With Teck Resources Stock?
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Teck Resources (TECK) stock trades at 11.6 times earnings. That multiple sits at about half the 23.2 of the median S&P 500 company. The copper and zinc miner earned far more over its last twelve months than a year earlier, yet the shares lost 11.8% over the past month. Either a sound miner is on sale, or buyers are paying a fair price for profits that may not last. So how strong are the profits behind that low multiple?
Teck Resources Earns Wider Margins Than Most Large Companies
Over the four quarters ended June 30, 2026, Teck recorded a 26.5% operating margin against 18.7% for the median S&P 500 company. Revenue grew 40.5% during those twelve months, while the median company grew 8.5%. Copper serves as the larger business. Teck’s Copper segment generated $6.62 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025, compared with $4.14 billion for its Zinc segment.
Those sales also turned into cash. Free cash flow came to 6.7% of Teck’s market value. The company held $6.05 billion of cash and short-term investments at June 30, 2026, against $9.79 billion of debt. Based on these figures, Teck resembles a growing, high-margin miner rather than a shrinking one.
Teck Resources’ Recent Profit Came Mostly From Metal Prices
On the July 23, 2026 call, management said the rise in adjusted EBITDA, its own profit measure, in fiscal Q2 2026 came primarily from much higher commodity prices. The operating margin sits at 26.5% now. By comparison, Teck recorded an 11.3% operating margin in the twelve months ended June 2025 and about zero a year before that.
Teck has earned even more before. The company earned $2.5 billion over its latest twelve months, but it earned $5.55 billion in the twelve months ended June 30, 2022, and the stock traded at 3.0 times those earnings. Net income then fell in each of the next three years. It dropped to $1.72 billion in the twelve months ended June 2023, declined to $1.47 billion a year later, and was $276 million by the twelve months ended June 2025. The price appears to assume that today’s profit will not last either.
What Is Changing In Teck Resources’ Copper Output?
Teck is mining more copper. Management said copper production rose by almost 25% in fiscal Q2 2026 from a year earlier. Copper net cash unit costs fell 19%. Higher production helped lower those costs, alongside stronger byproduct production and pricing, particularly for molybdenum, silver and zinc.
Management expects 2026 copper production of 455 thousand to 530 thousand tonnes, up from 454 thousand tonnes in 2025. It left that guide unchanged in July. Management also said it expects lower production in the second half of 2026, including at Antamina. Additionally, news reports said Teck received a strike notice at its Highland Valley Copper operation in October 2026. The company is also advancing a merger of equals with Anglo American. Management expects to complete the merger within 12 to 18 months of the September 2025 announcement. That window opened in September 2026, so a buyer today is also buying into a pending merger.
Teck’s profit has shrunk for three straight years before, so a buyer at this price is not betting on a steady business. The bet is that Teck can hold on to more of today’s profit through higher copper output if metal prices fall, though part of its lower unit cost came from stronger byproduct prices. Teck is expected to report its third quarter in October 2026, and copper production against that 2026 guide is the figure to watch.
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