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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-009748"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCCO"
cik: "0001001838"
company_name: "SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/"
filed_at: "2025-07-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T23:28:28.498606+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southern Copper Q2 net income $973M (+2.4%), cash cost down 17%, appoints new EVP

## Summary
- Q2 net sales $3,051M (-2.2% YoY); net income $973.4M (+2.4%); EPS $1.22 flat.
- Adjusted EBITDA $1,791M (margin 58.7% vs 57.6%); copper cash cost $0.63/lb, down 17% YoY.
- Copper production 239,980 tonnes (-1.4% YoY); by-product zinc output up 56%.
- Quarterly dividend: $0.80 cash + 0.0101 stock dividend per share, payable Sept 4, record Aug 15.
- Appointed Patricio Ovejas Simon as Executive VP effective July 24, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-009748
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCCO
- cik: 0001001838
- company_name: SOUTHERN COPPER CORP/
- filed_at: 2025-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 2.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001838/000155837025009748/0001558370-25-009748-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001838/000155837025009748/scco-20250728x8k.htm

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