NYSE:RIO - Rio Tinto Stock Price, Forecast & News

Rio Tinto trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "RIO."

Rio Tinto announced a semiannual dividend on Friday, March 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 8th will be paid a dividend of $1.806 per share on Thursday, April 18th. This represents a yield of 6.19%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 7th. This is a positive change from Rio Tinto's previous semiannual dividend of $1.27. View Rio Tinto's Dividend History.

Rio Tinto is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Rio Tinto.

22 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Rio Tinto's stock. Their forecasts range from $55.23 to $4,100.00. On average, they expect Rio Tinto's stock price to reach $1,404.08 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2,480.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Rio Tinto.

22 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Rio Tinto in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 13 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Rio Tinto.

News articles about RIO stock have trended very negative this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Rio Tinto earned a news sentiment score of -3.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the mining company a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is very likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Rio Tinto.

Some companies that are related to Rio Tinto include BHP Group (BHP), Vale (VALE), GMK Noril'skiy nikel' PAO (GDR) (NILSY), Anglo American (NGLOY), Southern Copper (SCCO), FORTESCUE METAL/S (FSUGY), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), SOUTH32 LTD/S (SOUHY), IMPALA PLATINUM/S (IMPUY), First Quantum Minerals (FQVLF), Lundin Mining (LUNMF), Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA (BVN), EXXARO RESOURCE/S (EXXAY), Centamin (CELTF) and Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF).

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Rio Tinto's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Franklin Resources Inc. (0.68%), Earnest Partners LLC (0.15%), Menora Mivtachim Holdings LTD. (0.13%), Van ECK Associates Corp (0.12%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.12%) and Todd Asset Management LLC (0.09%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for Rio Tinto.

RIO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Credit Suisse AG, Bank of America Corp DE, Van ECK Associates Corp, Parsec Financial Management Inc., Pacer Advisors Inc., SG Americas Securities LLC, State Street Corp and Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI. View Insider Buying and Selling for Rio Tinto.

RIO stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., Tdam USA Inc., SPX Equities Gestao de Recursos Ltda, Bank of Montreal Can, Renaissance Technologies LLC, TD Asset Management Inc., Oxford Asset Management LLP and Park National Corp OH. View Insider Buying and Selling for Rio Tinto.

Shares of RIO can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of RIO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.42.

Rio Tinto has a market capitalization of $69.22 billion and generates $40.52 billion in revenue each year. The mining company earns $13.64 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.07 on an earnings per share basis. Rio Tinto employs 47,458 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Rio Tinto.

The official website for Rio Tinto is http://www.riotinto.com/.

Rio Tinto's mailing address is 6 ST JAMES`S SQUARE, LONDON X0, 12207-2543. The mining company can be reached via phone at 44-20-7781-1623 or via email at [email protected]