diff --git a/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/higherorderfns.jl b/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/higherorderfns.jl
index 05f14c647e5e2c..66ab8b3f60e525 100644
--- a/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/higherorderfns.jl
+++ b/stdlib/SparseArrays/src/higherorderfns.jl
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ function copy(bc::Broadcasted{PromoteToSparse})
     if can_skip_sparsification(bcf.f, bcf.args...)
         return _copy(bcf.f, bcf.args...)
     elseif is_supported_sparse_broadcast(bcf.args...)
-        return broadcast(bcf.f, map(_sparsifystructured, bcf.args)...)
+        return _copy(bcf.f, map(_sparsifystructured, bcf.args)...)
     else
         return copy(convert(Broadcasted{Broadcast.DefaultArrayStyle{length(axes(bc))}}, bc))
     end