Vale S.A. ADR (NYSE:VALE) currently has a daily average trading volume of 33.98M but it saw 28390407 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 39.57B USD, the company’s current market price of $9.27 came falling about -1.38 while comparing to the previous closing price of $9.40. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $12.56 and as low as $8.38. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $9.16 while lowest mark touched by it was $9.2893.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Vale S.A. ADR (VALE) gives us an average price of $9.67, while its current price level is -26.18% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 10.62% 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 $9.27 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $10.31. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.60% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.21%. 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 43.79 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Morgan Stanley downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Equal-Weight” from “Overweight” on December 12, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $14.50-$11.30. UBS issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $14 and $11.50.
Over the week, VALE’s stock price is moving -4.43% down while it is -3.03% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 4.51% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -26.46%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-19, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.47 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.08. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $9.36B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $38.54B and seeing the company making $39.53B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $8.39B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Vale S.A. ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 4.27B with 0.02% of that held by the insiders while 15.79% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 12.72% and return on equity (ROE) at 16.72%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 6.52 while having a 4.87 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.78. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.18 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.04. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.99% on average.
