As previously reported, Morgan Stanley analyst Piyush Sood upgraded Freeport McMoRan to Overweight from Equal Weight, noting that his firm's Metals & Mining team expects copper market tightness to emerge beginning in Q2, given falling global production, low visible inventories and improved demand from China. Freeport's earnings sensitivity to copper is still the highest among its peers, said Sood, who sees the stock emerging as "the go-to large-cap stock for exposure to a copper price rally." Concerns about Freeport's ability to ramp production from 2019-21 are overblown, added the analyst, who lowered his price target on the shares to $14 from $16, citing a lower multiple to reflect the overall compression in multiples across equities and management's newly disclosed expectations around costs.