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How Investors Are Reacting To FLSmidth (CPSE:FLS) Major Mining Orders

Simply Wall St · 1d ago
  • FLSmidth disclosed several large mining equipment orders in October 2026, including a DKK 360 million crushing and grinding package in Northern Chile, a DKK 175 million grinding line in Chile, and a DKK 225 million mill technologies contract for a gold project in North America. All were booked in the third quarter and left 2026 guidance unchanged.
  • The clustering of high value copper and gold contracts, all featuring FLSmidth’s mill and crusher technologies plus long term service and spares, highlights how the mining segment depends on the group’s process expertise and installed base to secure follow on work across multiple projects and regions.
  • We will now look at how these sizeable mining equipment wins, especially the Chilean copper expansions, could influence FLSmidth's investment narrative.

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What Is FLSmidth's Investment Narrative?

To own FLSmidth you need to buy into a fairly straightforward idea. This is an equipment and service specialist that wins by securing long lead, capital intensive mining projects, then staying close to those sites for years through spares, upgrades and on site support. Recent copper and gold orders in Chile and North America fit that script. They add visible workload into 2027 to 2030 without changing 2026 guidance, so they look more like reinforcement of the pipeline than a near term earnings swing.

In the short term, the real swing factors remain tied to execution on the current backlog, pricing discipline on complex mill and crusher packages, and how capital spending plans from miners translate into new bids. FLSmidth is growing earnings, trades on a P/E around 20x and screens as good value versus some machinery peers, but reported profit has been influenced by large one off items. That combination of contract wins, capital intensity and accounting noise means investors still have to watch how cash conversion tracks the story.

Even so, one issue around how FLSmidth funds and manages that heavy project load can easily be missed until you look closely at...

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Exploring Other Perspectives

Some analysts see a very different risk for FLSmidth. You might worry that copper project approvals stay slow, which is exactly what the most cautious forecasters assume. They were pencilling in DKK 17.4b of revenue and DKK 1.9b of earnings by 2029, so their slower buildout story could shift as these new orders sink in.

Explore 2 other FLSmidth fair value estimates, including one that suggests it could be worth just DKK 660.42.

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