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Rio Tinto Plc (RIO) Company Bio

Rio Tinto mines for and produces aluminum, copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum, nickel, diamonds, titanium dioxide feedstocks, borates, salt, iron, metal powders, zircon, thermal coal, coking or metallurgical coal, uranium, and iron ore. The company was founded in 1873 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

RIO Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

The table below illustrates the output of a discounted cash flow forecast using a variety of scenarios for Rio Tinto Ltd. To summarize, we found that Rio Tinto Ltd ranked in the 13th percentile in terms of potential gain offered. Moreover, under all the scenarios we modelled, the output consistently forecasted positive returns. As for the metrics that stood out in our discounted cash flow analysis of Rio Tinto Ltd, consider:

• Interest coverage, a measure of earnings relative to interest payments, is 33.39 -- which is good for besting 92.31% of its peer stocks (US stocks in the Basic Materials sector with positive cash flow).
• RIO's estimated cost of debt, based largely on its market capitalization and its interest coverage ratio, is 3%; for context, that number is higher than 30.85% of tickers in our DCF set.

For other companies in the Basic Materials that have a similar discounted cashflow valuation profile (and ensuing price forecasts) as RIO, try ARLP, MTX, NTIC, GFI, and PGTI.