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Company snapshot — BHP Group Limited

BHP in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
BHP mines and processes metals and minerals worldwide, organised into three segments: Copper, Iron Ore and Coal. It also explores for nickel, potash, uranium, silver, gold and other deposits, and runs related marketing, trading and finance businesses. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia, and lists among the largest diversified miners globally.
Where it sits in the stack
BHP holds no seat in our index and carries no Rubin or Halo layer; it belongs to the diary's Basic Materials sector, sitting outside the AI build-out stack among diversified mining majors rather than any semiconductor or infrastructure sleeve.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group for BHP draws on scored Basic Materials names based in the same country, mostly gold miners such as Barrick Mining, Agnico Eagle and Kinross Gold; the market's usual comparison, Rio Tinto, sits alongside it as the other diversified major.
Why Closelook tracks it
BHP carries a Closelook score, strongest on the quality module and weakest on momentum. The diary has quoted it twice, once in a Daily Pulse piece comparing diversified majors against Vale, and once in a Midday 10 edition.
What the diary watches
Whether the gap between its quality score and its weaker momentum reading narrows as iron ore and copper price moves feed through to the chart.

BHP Group Limited (BHP) trades on US exchanges, classified under Basic Materials.

The Closelook company score reads 62/100 composite (momentum 66, quality 79, valuation 57) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for BHP, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Other Industrial Metals & Mining · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Other Industrial Metals & Mining

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against BHP on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.99%, semi-annual · last 1.98 USD on 2026-09-04

Dividends and capital return

What BHP pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.44 USD per share · a 3.99% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +57.4% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.18 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.98 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-04
  • By calendar year 2025: 2.18 USD (partial) · 2026: 3.44 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-07
  • Dividends paid, FY2026 6.76 bn USD 2% of earnings
  • Share count +0.1% in FY2026
  • Capital returned 6.76 bn USD · 57% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Materials in US: −1.9% week · −4.8% month · −3.2% quarter · −2.9% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLB.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is BHP Group Limited (BHP)?

BHP Group Limited trades as BHP on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Basic Materials in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is BHP in a Closelook index?

Not currently — BHP Group Limited is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is BHP Group Limited's Closelook composite score?

62 out of 100, with momentum 66, quality 79 and valuation 57 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does BHP trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -1.8% vs the 50-day and +11.3% vs the 200-day average, 11.8% below the 52-week high and +69.7% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does BHP Group Limited do?

BHP mines and processes metals and minerals worldwide, organised into three segments: Copper, Iron Ore and Coal. It also explores for nickel, potash, uranium, silver, gold and other deposits, and runs related marketing, trading and finance businesses. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia, and lists among the largest diversified miners globally. Closelook's peer group for BHP draws on scored Basic Materials names based in the same country, mostly gold miners such as Barrick Mining, Agnico Eagle and Kinross Gold; the market's usual comparison, Rio Tinto, sits alongside it as the other diversified major.

Where does BHP Group Limited sit in the AI build-out?

BHP holds no seat in our index and carries no Rubin or Halo layer; it belongs to the diary's Basic Materials sector, sitting outside the AI build-out stack among diversified mining majors rather than any semiconductor or infrastructure sleeve. BHP carries a Closelook score, strongest on the quality module and weakest on momentum. The diary has quoted it twice, once in a Daily Pulse piece comparing diversified majors against Vale, and once in a Midday 10 edition.

Does BHP Group Limited pay a dividend?

BHP Group Limited has paid 3.44 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 3.99% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.98 USD on 2026-09-04. In fiscal 2026 the company paid 6.76 bn USD in dividends, 57% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 0.1% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about BHP Group Limited?

BHP Group Limited appears in 2 Closelook pieces, most recently Daily Pulse: Three Ladders: Gold, Crypto, Materials (2026-08-24); Midday 10: A chart pick published at 95.10 this morning trades 107.92 by midday — Robinhood's triangle breaks up through the 100 shelf — as the CAC snaps seven straight red sessions and Bitcoin adds another six percent above 77,000 (2026-08-21). What Closelook said most recently: One rung out sit the diversified majors — BHP and Rio Tinto in the mid-teens, while Vale at −1.6% is the laggard that tells you iron ore and the China question have not joined the party. (Daily Pulse, 2026-08-24). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BHP, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 2 pieces · newest: Daily Pulse, “Three Ladders: Gold, Crypto, Materials” (2026-08-24)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where BHP appears in the diary — 2 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Related in the Closelook universe

then Other Industrial Metals & Mining, then Basic Materials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.