Rio Tinto's 2026 third-quarter performance across major businesses is satisfactory. Its share of Pilbara iron ore shipments is up 4% from a year ago, to 74 million metric tons. But copper production of 166,000 metric tons is down 5%, and aluminum is also down 2%, to 842,000 metric tons.
Rio Tinto is one of the direct beneficiaries of China's continuing strong appetite for natural resources.
With miners including Rio benefiting from high commodity prices, governments may use it as a source of tax revenue to plug shaky budgets.
Metric | RIO | FMG | BHP |
|---|---|---|---|
Price/Earnings (Normalized) | 10.97 | 8.54 | 14.23 |
Price/Book Value | 2.11 | 1.57 | 4.24 |
Price/Sales | 2.25 | 1.87 | 3.55 |
Price/Cash Flow | 6.76 | 4.63 | 8.91 |
Metric | RIO | FMG | BHP |
|---|---|---|---|
Quick Ratio | 0.93 | 1.70 | 1.44 |
Current Ratio | 1.42 | 2.32 | 1.88 |
Interest Coverage | 10.65 | 13.01 | 11.36 |
Metric | RIO | FMG | BHP |
|---|---|---|---|
Return on Assets (Normalized) | 10.13% | 11.10% | 11.44% |
Return on Equity (Normalized) | 20.84% | 17.01% | 27.20% |
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized) | 15.78% | 13.71% | 17.58% |
1-Day Chart | Name | Price | Morningstar Rating for Stocks | Capital Allocation | Economic Moat | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHP Group Ltd BHPLF | LOCK|fDnc@@j | LOCK|SvS | $211B | |||
| BHP Group Ltd ADR BHP | LOCK|@P?>@k | LOCK|#@# | $211B | |||
| Rio Tinto Ltd RTNTF | — | LOCK|gf> | $172B | |||
| Rio Tinto PLC Ordinary Shares RTPPF | LOCK|?BR&^dG | LOCK|dLp | $139B | |||
| Grupo Mexico SAB de CV Class B GMBXF | — | LOCK|xVz%F | $93B | |||
| Grupo Mexico SAB de CV ADR GPMXY | — | LOCK|&@NMf | $93B | |||
| Glencore PLC ADR GLNCY | LOCK|C^F<M< | LOCK|Y#^ | $81B | |||
| Anglo American PLC ADR NGLOY | LOCK|?^#h<JP | LOCK|ll | $56B | |||
| Vale SA ADR VALE | LOCK|fG | LOCK|!r$ | $49B |
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