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Rio Tinto (Rio Tinto) PB Ratio

: 1.98 (As of Today)
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The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2024-04-16), Rio Tinto's share price is $66.77. Rio Tinto's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $33.64. Hence, Rio Tinto's PB Ratio of today is 1.98.

The historical rank and industry rank for Rio Tinto's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

RIO' s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.16   Med: 2.04   Max: 3.02
Current: 2.04

During the past 13 years, Rio Tinto's highest PB Ratio was 3.02. The lowest was 1.16. And the median was 2.04.

RIO's PB Ratio is ranked worse than
63.85% of 2390 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: 1.4 vs RIO: 2.04

During the past 12 months, Rio Tinto's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 3.60% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 7.10% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 6.40% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was 6.30% per year.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of Rio Tinto was 50.60% per year. The lowest was -14.80% per year. And the median was 8.30% per year.

Back to Basics: PB Ratio


Rio Tinto PB Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Rio Tinto's PB Ratio can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Rio Tinto Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
PB Ratio
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.37 2.59 2.11 2.28 2.21

Rio Tinto Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
PB Ratio Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.11 1.96 2.28 2.01 2.21

Competitive Comparison

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Rio Tinto's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Rio Tinto PB Ratio Distribution

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Rio Tinto's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Rio Tinto's PB Ratio falls into.



Rio Tinto PB Ratio Calculation

The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.

Rio Tinto's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:

PB Ratio=Share Price/Book Value per Share (Q: Dec. 2023)
=66.77/33.642
=1.98

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.


Rio Tinto  (NYSE:RIO) PB Ratio Explanation

Unlike valuation ratios relative to the earning power such as PE Ratio, PE Ratio without NRI, PS Ratio, Price-to-Operating-Cash-Flow , or Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, the PB Ratio measures the valuation of the stock relative to the underlying asset of the company.

The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.


Be Aware

Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.


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Rio Tinto (Rio Tinto) Business Description

Address
6 St James’s Square, London, GBR, SW1Y 4AD
Rio Tinto is a global diversified miner. Iron ore is the dominant commodity, with significantly lesser contributions from copper, aluminum, diamonds, gold, and industrial minerals. The 1995 merger of RTZ and CRA, via a dual-listed structure, created the present-day company. The two operate as a single business entity, with shareholders in each company having equivalent economic and voting rights. Major assets included its Pilbara iron ore operations, a 30% stake in the Escondida copper mine, 66%-ownership of the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia, the Weipa and Gove bauxite mines in Australia, and six hydro-powered aluminum smelters in Canada.