Vale (VALE) Stock Price, News & Analysis

11 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Vale in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" VALE shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in VALE, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Vale's shares. Their VALE share price targets range from $13.00 to $20.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $16.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 41.0% from the stock's current price.
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Vale's stock was trading at $15.86 at the beginning of the year. Since then, VALE stock has decreased by 25.5% and is now trading at $11.82.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Vale S.A. (NYSE:VALE) issued its earnings results on Thursday, February, 22nd. The basic materials company reported $0.56 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.04 by $0.48. The basic materials company had revenue of $13.05 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $12.95 billion. Vale had a net margin of 19.10% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.00%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.82 EPS.

Vale announced a semi-annual dividend on Friday, February 23rd. Investors of record on Wednesday, March 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.3182 per share on Tuesday, March 26th. This represents a dividend yield of 9.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 12th.
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Vale (NYSE:VALE) pays an annual dividend of $1.18 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 10.13%. VALE has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 64.48%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, VALE will have a dividend payout ratio of 52.68% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Vale (NYSE:VALE) stock in their portfolio include iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF), VanEck Steel ETF (SLX), Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF (ECOW), SPDR S&P Global Natural Resources ETF (GNR), iShares Global Materials ETF (MXI), SPDR MSCI Emerging Markets StrategicFactors ETF (QEMM), Amplify International Enhanced Dividend Income ETF (IDVO) and VanEck Natural Resources ETF (HAP).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Vale investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Micron Technology (MU), Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), Intel (INTC), General Electric (GE), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (PBR), Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T), Alibaba Group (BABA) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

Vale's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.00%), Traynor Capital Management Inc. (0.00%), IMC Chicago LLC (0.00%), Park Avenue Securities LLC (0.00%), Perpetual Ltd (0.00%) and Matthews International Capital Management LLC (0.00%).

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