Rio Tinto Plc (RIO): Price and Financial Metrics

RIO POWR Grades

• RIO scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 94.51% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for RIO is in Sentiment, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• RIO's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 15.75% of US stocks).

RIO Stock Summary

• Rio Tinto Ltd's market capitalization of $127,525,129,313 is ahead of 98.09% of US-listed equities.
• Of note is the ratio of Rio Tinto Ltd's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 0.5% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Rio Tinto Ltd is higher than it is for about 94.45% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Rio Tinto Ltd are RACE, MRNA, AMAT, AMD, and GOLD.
• Visit RIO's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.riotinto.com.

RIO Valuation Summary

• RIO's price/sales ratio is 2.1; this is 8.7% lower than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• Over the past 243 months, RIO's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 4.9.
• Over the past 243 months, RIO's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for RIO.

RIO Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 73.49%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 32.06%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -3.64%.

RIO's revenue has moved up $20,330,000,000 over the prior 24 months.

The table below shows RIO's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	63,495	35,367	21,094
2020-12-31	44,611	22,416	9,769
2019-12-31	43,165	20,374	8,010
2018-12-31	40,522	16,455	13,638
2017-12-31	40,030	17,487	8,762
2016-12-31	33,781	11,621	4,617

RIO's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• RIO has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 90.73% of graded US stocks.
• RIO's asset turnover comes in at 0.482 -- ranking 12th of 42 Non-Metallic and Industrial Metal Mining stocks.
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The table below shows RIO's key quality metrics over time.