Currently, there are 4.27B common shares owned by the public and among those 4.27B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 1.54% and 8.47% over the past three months. VALE shares are trading 3.95% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -20.57% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $8.06 and touched a high of $12.55 over the same period. VALE has an average intraday trading volume of 38.53 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -4.99%, -4.43%, and -7.74% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Vale S.A. ADR (NYSE: VALE) shares accounts for 14.74% of the company’s 4.27B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $39.36B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.88. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 6.49, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.42. The company has a PEG of 0.72 and a Quick Ratio of 0.68 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.46. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 7.13% over the week and 3.35% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 25.59%, and 2.50% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the VALE, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. BofA Securities stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on April 10, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $11.50. Morgan Stanley was of a view on December 12, 2024 that the stock is Equal-Weight, while UBS gave the stock Neutral rating on November 11, 2024, issuing a price target of $14- $11.50. Wolfe Research on their part issued Underperform rating on October 09, 2024.
