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Rio Tinto (RIO) Competitors

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RIO vs. BVN, BHP, WPM, CCJ, TECK, RS, MP, SBSW, OR, and HBM

Should you be buying Rio Tinto stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rio Tinto include Buenaventura Mining (BVN), BHP Group (BHP), Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), Cameco (CCJ), Teck Resources (TECK), Reliance (RS), MP Materials (MP), Sibanye Gold (SBSW), OR Royalties (OR), and HudBay Minerals (HBM). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.

Rio Tinto vs. Its Competitors

Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) and Buenaventura Mining (NYSE:BVN) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Rio Tinto has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Buenaventura Mining has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Rio Tinto presently has a consensus target price of $73.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.07%. Buenaventura Mining has a consensus target price of $16.75, suggesting a potential downside of 2.47%. Given Rio Tinto's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Rio Tinto is more favorable than Buenaventura Mining.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Rio Tinto
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78
Buenaventura Mining
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Rio Tinto has higher revenue and earnings than Buenaventura Mining. Buenaventura Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rio Tinto, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Rio Tinto$53.66B1.47$11.55B$6.459.75
Buenaventura Mining$1.15B3.77$402.69M$1.899.09

In the previous week, Buenaventura Mining had 1 more articles in the media than Rio Tinto. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Buenaventura Mining and 9 mentions for Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Buenaventura Mining's score of 0.81 indicating that Rio Tinto is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Rio Tinto
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Buenaventura Mining
1 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Rio Tinto pays an annual dividend of $4.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Buenaventura Mining pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Rio Tinto pays out 69.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Buenaventura Mining pays out 14.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

19.3% of Rio Tinto shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Buenaventura Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Buenaventura Mining has a net margin of 39.60% compared to Rio Tinto's net margin of 0.00%. Buenaventura Mining's return on equity of 9.19% beat Rio Tinto's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Rio TintoN/A N/A N/A
Buenaventura Mining 39.60%9.19%6.53%

Summary

Rio Tinto beats Buenaventura Mining on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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RIO vs. The Competition

MetricRio TintoMINING IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$78.87B$6.17B$3.26B$21.05B
Dividend Yield6.90%1.93%5.14%3.58%
P/E Ratio9.7528.07110.0727.79
Price / Sales1.47480.6129,917,952,646,681,400.0059.58
Price / Cash4.8228.3423.9523.00
Price / Book1.367.926.104.68
Net Income$11.55B$278.61M$147.58M$994.49M
7 Day Performance3.82%1.04%1.55%1.38%
1 Month Performance10.87%16.11%7.40%5.63%
1 Year Performance-2.23%39.50%30.00%11.26%

Rio Tinto Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RIO
Rio Tinto
3.8072 of 5 stars
$62.90
-1.5%
$73.00
+16.1%
+0.6%$78.87B$53.66B9.7553,039Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
BVN
Buenaventura Mining
3.183 of 5 stars
$17.53
-1.5%
$16.75
-4.5%
+11.9%$4.45B$1.15B9.272,958News Coverage
Earnings Report
BHP
BHP Group
1.5527 of 5 stars
$55.12
+0.1%
$53.00
-3.8%
-0.6%$140.05B$55.66B12.5590,000Analyst Forecast
WPM
Wheaton Precious Metals
3.9346 of 5 stars
$95.29
-0.4%
$93.00
-2.4%
+56.9%$43.41B$1.28B70.3240Positive News
Analyst Revision
CCJ
Cameco
3.1744 of 5 stars
$78.78
+1.1%
$80.65
+2.4%
+71.9%$34.39B$2.29B197.462,884Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
TECK
Teck Resources
4.9262 of 5 stars
$38.48
-0.8%
$60.75
+57.9%
-22.2%$18.65B$9.74B66.557,200Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
RS
Reliance
3.8283 of 5 stars
$342.86
+0.8%
$315.00
-8.1%
+2.6%$18.03B$13.84B24.5815,900Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
MP
MP Materials
1.7739 of 5 stars
$61.45
+2.3%
$46.11
-25.0%
+348.1%$10.08B$215.98M-94.90490Analyst Forecast
SBSW
Sibanye Gold
0.5805 of 5 stars
$9.69
+1.1%
$4.73
-51.1%
+115.6%$6.87B$112.13B18.6657,857
OR
OR Royalties
2.2687 of 5 stars
$28.36
-1.1%
$24.33
-14.2%
+60.1%$5.34B$191.16M166.9230Analyst Revision
HBM
HudBay Minerals
3.3868 of 5 stars
$10.18
+2.0%
N/A+26.8%$4.03B$2.02B26.822,803Trending News
Analyst Revision

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This page (NYSE:RIO) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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