Share

Profile & Fundamentals

Glencore Profile & Fundamentals

Name: Glencore financial chart data preview
Creator: iPulse AI
License: https://ipulseai.com/terms

Examine company identity, ownership, reported performance, valuation, balance-sheet resilience, dividends, buybacks, and material corporate events.

Interactive annual & quarterly chartsAI financial reviewsReported source tables

Explore this pageJump to a Profile & Fundamentals section

Explore this research

Profile & Fundamentals contents

Jump directly to any section

Company and Market Context

Company Profile & Ownership

Glencore plc engages in the production, refinement, processing, storage, transport, and marketing of metals and minerals, and energy products in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The company operates in two segments, Marketing Activities and Industrial Activities. It engages in the production and marketing of copper, cobalt, lead, nickel, zinc, chrome ore, ferrochrome, vanadium, aluminum, alumina, and iron ore; and coal, crude oil, refined products, and natural gas, as well as oil exploration and production and refining and distribution. The company is also involved in marketing and distributing physical commodities sourced from third party producers to industrial consumers, including the battery, electronic, construction, automotive, steel, energy, and oil industries. In addition, the company provides financing, logistics, and other services to producers and consumers of commodities. Glencore plc was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland.

Company profile record

Glencore PLC

Common Stock · Materials · Diversified Metals & Mining

Official website

Company

Company / asset: Glencore PLC
Security type: Common Stock
Sector: Materials
Industry: Diversified Metals & Mining
HQ: 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Head office: Baarermattstrasse 3, Baar, Switzerland, 6340

Leadership & scale

Chief executive: Mr. Gary Nagle C.A.
CEO year born: 1975
Full-time employees: 140K
Fiscal year end: December

Fundamentals snapshot

Updated 2026-09-16

Market Cap: GBP 66.7B
P/E: 26.4x
Revenue (Q2 26): USD 173.0B
Profit (Q2 26): USD 4.4B
Dividend Yield: --
Revenue (FY 25): USD 252.7B
Shares in public float: 9.2B
Insider ownership: 13.73%

Reporting & identifiers

Symbol: GLEN.LSE
Listing: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | Dividend Tax: 0%
Ticker Currency: GBX
Income Statement Currency: USD
Balance Sheet Currency: USD
Cash Flow Currency: USD
EPS Currency: USD
Contract Type: SPOT
ISIN: JE00B4T3BW64
Asset ID: equity_b0e4649c-7804-5ca2-899d-98a3301ffd3d

Ownership

Shares Outstanding

Shares outstanding

Annual reported shares outstanding. Values in shares.

Earnings, Profitability & Valuation

Earnings & Revenue

AI Review

On paper, the company's recent financial reports look alarming, showing a net loss of over one billion dollars. However, this is a misleading accounting illusion caused by non-cash write-downs and depreciation. In reality, the business is a cash-generating powerhouse, producing a massive four point five billion dollars in free cash flow. The reports agree that the trading division is performing exceptionally well, making huge profits by taking advantage of global shipping and energy disruptions. Looking ahead, there is some disagreement on how quickly profits will grow, but the consensus is clear: the company's actual cash generation is incredibly strong and provides a massive safety net for investors, completely overshadowing the temporary losses shown in standard accounting headlines.

Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow

Revenue
Free cash flow
Net income

Annual reported financial results, converted using the statement's recorded USD conversion. Missing values are omitted. Values in USD.

Valuation

Historical P/E Ratio

Published P/E

Published valuation snapshots. Trailing four-quarter earnings where available; annual earnings otherwise. Non-positive earnings are omitted. Values in times earnings.

Profitability & Margins

AI Review

At first glance, the company's profit margins look incredibly thin, but this is simply because its massive trading business deals in huge volumes of goods with small percentage markups. The true profit story lies in its mining operations, where extracting copper and coal remains highly lucrative. The reports agree that are poised to expand significantly as the global copper shortage worsens, giving the company immense pricing power. While there is some debate over how much rising fuel and labor costs will eat into these gains, the overall outlook is highly positive. The current low valuation of the stock suggests that the market is completely mispricing the company's highly resilient and expanding profit potential.

Profitability Margins

Gross margin
Operating margin
Net margin
Free cash flow margin

Annual gross, operating, net income and free cash flow divided by revenue for matching reporting dates. Values in percent.

Complete Research Workspace

Unlock the complete Profile & Fundamentals

Sign in to verify your access, or upgrade to the Base plan to open the complete profile & fundamentals and available source data.

Sign in to check access View Base plan

Paywalled preview begins: Reported Data Tables — chart preview

From this section to the end-of-preview notice below, research is provided as simplified HTML text and tables. Full access provides the complete interactive interface, charts and additional datasets.

Reported Data Tables — chart preview

The following tables contain the same values as the financial charts above. Monetary values are USD; margins are percentages. Missing inputs are not estimated. Use is subject to the iPulse AI Terms of Service and applicable source rights.

Source: eodhd. Statement snapshots with chart transformations and ratios calculated by iPulse AI. Snapshot retrieved 2026-09-17.

Annual earnings and profitability
Period end	Revenue	Free cash flow	Net income	Gross margin	Operating margin	Net margin	Free cash flow margin
2016-12-31	152,948,000,000	1,770,000,000	1,379,000,000	2.08	0.86	0.9	1.16
2017-12-31	205,476,000,000	1,231,000,000	5,777,000,000	3.79	2.3	2.81	0.6
2018-12-31	219,754,000,000	6,872,000,000	3,408,000,000	4.12	2.37	1.55	3.13
2019-12-31	215,111,000,000	4,017,000,000	-404,000,000	2.17	0.86	-0.19	1.87
2020-12-31	142,338,000,000	-905,000,000	-1,903,000,000	2.6	-1.06	-1.34	-0.64
2021-12-31	203,751,000,000	5,242,000,000	4,974,000,000	6.08	3.56	2.44	2.57
2022-12-31	255,984,000,000	9,482,000,000	17,320,000,000	10.65	7.69	6.77	3.7
2023-12-31	217,829,000,000	6,552,000,000	4,280,000,000	4.95	3.99	1.96	3.01
2024-12-31	230,944,000,000	4,444,000,000	-1,634,000,000	2.72	1.76	-0.71	1.92
2025-12-31	252,749,800,287	395,119,381	370,615,849	2.17	1.14	0.15	0.16

Published valuation snapshots
Period end	P/E (times earnings)	Earnings basis
2024-12-31	20.68	Trailing four quarters
2023-12-31	6.33	Trailing four quarters
2022-12-31	5.05	Annual net income
2021-12-31	13.58	Annual net income

Shares outstanding — chart values
Reporting date	Shares outstanding
2017-01-01	14,423,044,000
2018-01-01	14,253,527,000
2019-01-01	13,658,470,000
2020-01-01	13,118,621,000
2021-01-01	13,339,689,000
2022-01-01	13,079,609,000
2023-01-01	12,455,656,000
2024-01-01	12,389,641,000
2025-01-01	12,066,756,000
2026-01-01	11,975,376,000

End of the paywalled preview

The excerpt from Reported Data Tables — chart preview to this notice is the simplified paywalled content included on this page. A signed-in, verified account with the required subscription provides the full interactive interface and the additional research, datasets and tools listed below.

Those additional materials are not included in this preview and cannot be revealed by removing its visual restrictions.

Additional with full access

Earnings, Profitability & Valuation
- Complete profitability ratios
- EPS history and estimate comparisons
- Execution vs expectations
- Annual and quarterly financial views
Capital Expenditure & R&D
- Capital allocation AI review
- Annual capital expenditure
- Investment intensity trends
- Capex and R&D intensity indicators
Balance Sheet
- Balance sheet AI review
- Assets, debt and equity
- Capital structure
- Liquidity and leverage
- Retained earnings
Dividends & Actions
- Cash dividends paid
- Dividend indicators
- Buybacks and issuance
- Combined shareholder returns
- Available corporate actions

Explore complete public research examples

These public assets show the complete asset profiles, fundamental datasets and analysis. Their findings concern those assets, not this report.