Should You Sell Rio Tinto plc ADR (RIO) And Go Away This Year?

Rio Tinto plc ADR (NYSE:RIO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.08M but it saw 2299912 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 77.15B USD, the company’s current market price of $61.58 came falling about -0.85 while comparing to the previous closing price of $62.11. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $74.24 and as low as $57.85.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Rio Tinto plc ADR (RIO) gives us an average price of $62.07, while its current price level is -17.05% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 6.45% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $60.83 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $64.37. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.47% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.62%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 47.75 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, RIO’s stock price is moving -1.88% down while it is -0.63% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 4.71% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -6.67%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in March, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 6.2.

Currently, Rio Tinto plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.25B with 0.04% of that held by the insiders while 10.56% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 16.76% and return on equity (ROE) at 20.93%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 8.75 while having a 9.64 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.62. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.81 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.45. Its return on asset (ROA) is 11.14% on average.