# Vale S.A. share price today (Vale S.A., VALE)

> Vale S.A.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. VALE · Materials · Other Industrial Metals & Mining · data as of 3 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/vale

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## Key numbers

- Business trend: Mixed, from the last 12 quarters
- Price: $10.98 (−9.2% in a year)
- P/E: 120.2×, over 4.6 years
- Revenue (Jun 2026): $53.0 B (+6.4% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jun 2026): $7.0 B (−42.2% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 22.0% (−3.1 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 6%, FY25
- ROIC: 0.6%, against a 5.7% cost of capital: −5.1 points

The main question: the share price moved −9.2% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved −56.2%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. ## What is the Vale S.A. share price today? Vale S.A.'s share price was $10.98 at the close on 3 November 2026. It has been moving sideways for 9 weeks. That is 27.9% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $11 and $18, and at that close it was at the low of that range. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 28 weeks running. Over the last 10 years the share price moved +122% while the S&P 500 moved +255%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 24 April 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week. This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row. ## What dividend does Vale S.A. pay? Vale S.A. paid $12.97 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $5.48 for Dec 2025. At today's price of $10.98 that is a yield of 118.12%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast. ## Which stock lists is Vale S.A. on? Vale S.A. is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list. ## Is Vale S.A. profitable? Vale S.A. earned $7.0 B of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, −42.2% on the same quarter a year earlier. Full-year FY25 profit was $11.8 B. Over 4 years profit has grown −44.1% a year on average. That is 13.3% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $12.2 B. 2 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making. For the full year, FY25 profit was $11.8 B (−61.2% on the year before). Why profit moved: revenue changed +6.4% on a year earlier and the margin moved −3.1 percentage points. Sales did the work while the margin got thinner. On average over the last four quarters, profit changed −2.3% and revenue +4.2%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth. ## How much revenue does Vale S.A. make, and is it growing? Vale S.A. reported $53.0 B of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +6.4% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 4th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown −7.6% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $214 B. The last four reported quarters add to $218 B. FY25 revenue was $214 B, +3.7% on the year before. Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +4.2% on average, against −7.6% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate. Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +4.0%, against +1.9% a year over the last 8 quarters (stabilising); profit over the last 12 months grew −68.8%, against −57.9% a year (rolling over). ## How much of every $100 of sales does Vale S.A. keep? Vale S.A.'s operating margin was 22.0% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 3.1 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 28.2% and 51.5%. The latest quarter is below every full year in that period. Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −3.1 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −0.4 points. So the drop came mostly from costs below the gross margin, such as staff and overheads, measured against sales. ## Is Vale S.A.'s profit turning into cash? Over the last 3 years, 199% of Vale S.A.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $48.8 B of operating cash against $11.8 B of profit. After $33.4 B of spending on assets, $15.4 B was left over as free cash. Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year. Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason. What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building. ## Where does Vale S.A.'s cash go? Vale S.A. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $97.9 B on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 15.3% of FY25 revenue a year. Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn. Spending on assets: $97.9 B over the last 3 years. In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns. ## What is Vale S.A.'s P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? Vale S.A.'s P/E is 120.2×, with too little history to compare. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth. Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved −56.2% while the price moved −9.2%. The price did better than earnings, which pushed the multiple up within its own range. Where the price move came from: over 3 years the price moved −8.9% a year; about −39.1% a year came from earnings growth and about +30.2 percentage points from the multiple (the market paying more). The split is approximate (price return minus earnings growth). It shows how much of the move came from the market paying a different multiple. In short: there is too little history to say whether the multiple is high or low for this company, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple. ## Is the Vale S.A. business getting better or worse? Vale S.A.'s business is giving mixed signals. Profit and EPS growth are shrinking while ROCE is steady at 15.0%, so growth and returns point different ways. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures. Why it matters: when the lines disagree, each line above matters more than any single label. ## How much does Vale S.A. earn on its capital? Vale S.A. earned a ROE of 6% in FY25. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 5.1 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses. It comes from a 5.5% net margin and 0.45× asset turnover (sales divided by assets). Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 5.5% net margin × 0.45× asset turnover × 2.52× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 6.2% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it. The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 0.6% − 5.7% = −5.1 percentage points. The 5.7% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Negative: growth at these returns loses value until returns improve. The 0.6% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY25 at 9.6%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method. ## Does Vale S.A. have too much debt? Vale S.A. has total debt of $110 B against shareholder equity of $201 B as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 0.55× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.49 in FY21 to 0.61 in FY25. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page. ## What is the Vale S.A. shareholding pattern? 1.4% of Vale S.A.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so very few traders are betting against this stock. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 1.7 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead. It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history. Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is Vale S.A. from balance-sheet trouble? For Vale S.A., the Z-score is 1.94. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the grey area between the two. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. Why it matters: a Z-score of 1.94 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble. ## How does Vale S.A. rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: Vale S.A. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Other Industrial Metals & Mining. The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown. ## Which companies is Vale S.A. compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to Vale S.A. in size? Vale S.A. is the 3rd largest of 20 Other Industrial Metals & Mining companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 November 2026). Just above it: BHP Group and Rio Tinto Group. Just below it: Teck Resources, MP Materials Corp., Materion Corporation and Almonty Industries Inc. ### Other Industrial Metals & Mining companies close in size

1. [BHP Group Limited](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/bhp) $195 billion
2. [Rio Tinto Group](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/rio) $140 billion
3. Vale S.A. $46.6 billion
4. [Teck Resources Limited](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/teck) $30.4 billion
5. [MP Materials Corp.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/mp) $6.7 billion
6. [Materion Corporation](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/mtrn) $4.7 billion
7. [Almonty Industries Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/alm) $2.5 billion

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## What else do people ask about Vale S.A.? ### What were Vale S.A.'s latest quarterly results? Vale S.A. reported revenue of $53.0 B and net profit of $7.0 B for the Jun 2026 quarter. Revenue rose 6.4% and profit fell 42.2% compared with a year earlier. Earnings per share were $1.60. The operating margin was 22.0%, 3.1 percentage points lower than a year earlier (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is Vale S.A.'s market cap? Vale S.A.'s market capitalisation is $46.6 B at a stock price of $10.98. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 3 November 2026). ### How is Vale S.A. performing? Vale S.A.'s share price has been moving sideways for 9 weeks. In its latest quarter, revenue rose 6.4% and profit fell 42.2% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, for 28 weeks running (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will Vale S.A.'s stock price go up? This page does not forecast Vale S.A.'s stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $10.98, and it has been moving sideways for 9 weeks. Nobody can reliably say which way a price will move, and this site does not try (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is Vale S.A. in its business cycle? Vale S.A.'s FY25 operating margin was 28.4%, against a 5-year range of 28.2% to 51.5%: the low end of its own range, which is often where recoveries start. The latest quarter was 22.0%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 3 November 2026). ### What could break the Vale S.A. story? The main question: the share price moved −9.2% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved −56.2%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Vale S.A. a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: Vale S.A.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. The main open question: whether earnings grow into a price that has already moved. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 3 November 2026). This is research, not advice. We’re not SEBI-registered.