Spotting A Winner: Rio Tinto plc ADR (NYSE: RIO) Advances 2.48 And It Still Have Room To Run

Rio Tinto plc ADR (NYSE:RIO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.28M but it saw 4015042 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 77.34B USD, the company’s current market price of $61.69 came rising about 2.48 while comparing to the previous closing price of $60.20. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $74.24 and as low as $51.67. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $60.74 while lowest mark touched by it was $61.84.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Rio Tinto plc ADR (RIO) gives us an average price of $58.02, while its current price level is -16.90% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 19.39% 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 $60.76 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $62.67. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.74% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.59%. 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 60.42 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, RIO’s stock price is moving 7.93% up while it is -1.78% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 4.90% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -8.20%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2007-Jul-17, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 6.17.

Currently, Rio Tinto plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.25B with 0.00% 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 8.77 while having a 9.87 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.71. 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.