Holding Stock in Canadian Copper Mines: An Exploration of Factors Affecting Returns
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ABSTRACT In this article we examine the determinants of annual stock returns for ten Canadian copper mines. Factors related to the specific copper mines and the exogenous economic environment are considered. Our exploratory model of the copper mining firms' returns reveals that the importance of easily observable factors such as metal prices and returns from alternative investment variables is robust across various estimation methods. Moreover, although production cost and metal output variables do not significantly affect stock returns, firm-specific dummy variables indicate that unidentified mine differences can significantly affect returns. INTRODUCTION Investment in mining stocks is inherently risky. Metal prices and other aspects of the economic environment change over the course of a mine's life, and the size and quality of resource deposits are often not known with certainty when operations commence. In spite of the risk, or because of a risk-return trade-off, many investors hold mining stock. In this article we conduct an exploratory study that examines the extent to which variations in the financial returns from holding stock in mining firms can be explained by firm characteristics and the state of the exogenous economic environment. To this end we investigate the returns from holding stock in Canadian copper mining firms for which fairly detailed information about firm-level characteristics are available, including mine type, production data, and cost variables. The firm-level data are combined with information related to the demand and supply of copper, including data on overall economic performance, new and scrap metal prices, world copper production, automobile production, and the returns of the TSE 300 and S & P 500 indices. Our data set contains annual observations for a sample of ten Canadian copper mining firms. Because all of the individual mines are small, operations do not last as long as for larger multi-mine operators who diversify their operations across locations and metals (and whose stock returns and firm-level data will be related to the performance of several different mines). It is not feasible to perform a detailed analysis of any single firm in the data set, because the longest time span over which data for any individual mine are available is 21 years, and only annual observations are available for some of the key variables. We therefore pool data to explore the determinants of the stock returns for these mining firms, and to take advantage of the more informative single-mine data. Once the information is pooled, we find that our firm-level and exogenous variables are capable of explaining much of the variation in Canadian copper mines' stock returns, with most of the information regarding mining stock performance coming from the overall economic environment and, to a lesser extent, from the firm-specific indicators. In the second section, following a brief review of a standard model of a profit maximizing mining firm, we discuss copper mines' stock returns in terms of changes in the value of common stock and dividends paid, over a given time period. Next, we describe the data set assembled for investigation in this article, including some background information regarding the copper mines for which data are compiled. The fourth section presents and summarizes the results of our analysis. A summary and suggestions for further work conclude the article. BACKGROUND A typical owner of a small mine faces the following problem: Given a fixed stock of a resource in a deposit (in this case copper), how much should be mined each period in order to maximize long-term profits?1 The answer to this question is dependent on a number of factors, including (i) expected changes in the price of the non-renewable resource being extracted from the mine, (ii) costs that tend to increase over time as the copper that is most easily mined is extracted first, (iii) the size of the deposit available to be extracted from the mine, and (iv) the quality and accessibility of the mined ore, which can vary within and across deposits. …
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