Vale S.A. ADR (NYSE:VALE) currently has a daily average trading volume of 35.66M but it saw 30349770 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 41.62B USD, the company’s current market price of $9.75 came rising about 2.09 while comparing to the previous closing price of $9.55. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $12.55 and as low as $8.06. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $9.6591 while lowest mark touched by it was $9.82.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Vale S.A. ADR (VALE) gives us an average price of $9.38, while its current price level is -22.33% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 21.04% 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 $9.62 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $10.02. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.34% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.46%. 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 56.57 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
BofA Securities upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Buy” from “Neutral” on April 10, 2025 while assigning a price target of $11.50.
Over the week, VALE’s stock price is moving 8.33% up while it is -3.37% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 9.92% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -16.34%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-19, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.42 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.9. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $9.49B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $44.17B and seeing the company making $39.29B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $9.45B 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 15.69% 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 6.86 while having a 5.47 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.85. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.24 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.09. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.99% on average.
