profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Vale
$11.22-0.53% today
-9.4% in 1 year
1-year low $10.981-year high $17.82
Trading close to its lowest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $115.04 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Vale sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from R$43.8 billion in 2022 to R$38.4 billion in 2025, with R$2.35 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Vale handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
R$3.6B
Free cash flow 2025R$2.8B
Bought back its own sharesR$0
Paid as dividendsR$3.6B
Cash vs. debtR$7.4B vs. R$21.8B
Vale vs. similar companies
Vale grows in the middle of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vale | 115.0× · Very expensive | ||
 BHP Group | 22.4× · Fair price | ||
 Rio Tinto Group | 13.6× · Cheap | ||
 Grupo México, S.A.B. de C.V. | 18.8× · Fair price | ||
 Glencore | 217.5× · Very expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Vale's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of BRL | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43,839 | 41,784 | 38,056 | 38,403 | |
| 19,811 | 17,695 | 13,791 | 13,456 | |
| 17,795 | 15,859 | 11,101 | 11,343 | |
| 23,897 | 15,590 | 11,090 | 9,799 | |
| 18,788 | 7,983 | 6,166 | 2,352 | |
| 4.05 | 1.83 | 1.44 | 0.55 | |
| 45.2% | 42.3% | 36.2% | 35.0% | |
| 40.6% | 38.0% | 29.2% | 29.5% | |
| 42.9% | 19.1% | 16.2% | 6.1% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of BRL | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 86,894 | 94,186 | 80,152 | 86,525 |
| Cash | 4,736 | 3,609 | 4,953 | 7,372 |
| Total debt | 15,437 | 16,797 | 17,722 | 21,801 |
| Total liabilities | 49,536 | 53,205 | 45,624 | 52,175 |
| 35,867 | 39,461 | 33,406 | 33,509 | |
| 4,642 | 4,362 | 4,280 | 4,275 | |
| 31.9% | 17.6% | 12.4% | 9.6% | |
| 52.4% | 20.2% | 18.5% | 7.0% |
Cash flow
| In millions of BRL | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,485 | 13,165 | 9,366 | 8,801 | |
| 5,446 | 5,920 | 6,447 | 6,006 | |
| 6,039 | 7,245 | 2,919 | 2,795 | |
| Dividends paid | 6,603 | 5,513 | 3,914 | 3,561 |
| 6,036 | 2,714 | 409 | 0 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 115.0×
- 5.6×
- –
- 7.9×
- 7.0×
- 96.8×
- 29.1×
- 1.0%
- 0.9%
- 6.6%
Profitability
- 35.0%
- 29.5%
- 6.1%
- 34.4%
- 9.8%
- 18.3%
- 7.7%
- 3.3%
- 13.8%
- 2.1%
Growth
- −4.3%
- −48.6%
- +6.1%
- +26.6%
- −2.7%
Financial health
- 1.5×
- 0.65
- 21.5%
- 3.3×
- 1.15
- 0.79
- 0.45
How it ranks in Materials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 31%of 992
Top 11%of 962
Bottom 5%of 790
Bottom 25%of 956
Bottom 42%of 991
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $16.89
- Range
- $14.20 – $19.50
- 6 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2026 | 0.44 | 0.47 | −6.4% |
| Feb 12, 2026 | -0.90 | 0.57 | −257.9% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | 0.63 | 0.49 | +28.6% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 0.50 | 0.34 | +47.1% |
| Apr 24, 2025 | 0.35 | 0.37 | −5.4% |
| Feb 19, 2025 | 0.20 | 0.56 | −64.3% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | 0.56 | 0.46 | +21.7% |
| Jul 25, 2024 | 0.43 | 0.38 | +13.2% |
6.6%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$66a year at today's yield, before tax
+26.6%2020 to 2025
Raised1 yearin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.29 in 2015 → $1.39 in 2025
How safe it looks
151.4% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 127.4%
News
Stock Market Today, Oct. 5: Vale Rises Amid Brazil Election BackdropYahoo Finance · Oct 5, 2026More Brazilian cities join Vale-BHP dam collapse payout dealSeeking Alpha · Aug 21, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
50No pass
Benjamin Graham
35No pass
Philip Fisher
42No pass
Peter Lynch
23No pass
Joel Greenblatt
9No pass
Charlie Munger
52No pass
Terry Smith
48No pass
Questions about Vale
Is Vale a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, priced as if everything goes right. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Vale AI analysis
What does Vale do?
Vale S.A., together with its subsidiaries, produces iron ore and nickel in Brazil, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. The company operates in two segments, Iron Ore Solutions and Vale Base Metals. It is in Other Industrial Metals & Mining, based in Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, with 65,805 employees.
Does Vale pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 6.6% a year, about 151% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $3.56 billion in dividends.
Is Vale stock halal?
Yes. Vale passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 8% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Vale stock done over the past year?
Down 9.4% over the past twelve months, to $11.22. It traded between $10.98 and $17.82 and is 37.0% below its high.
Who are Vale's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are BHP Group, Rio Tinto Group, Grupo México, S.A.B. de C.V. and Glencore. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Vale's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.