About Vale S.A.
Vale S.A., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells iron ore and iron ore pellets for use as raw materials in steelmaking in Brazil and internationally. The company operates through Ferrous Minerals and Base Metals segments. The Ferrous Minerals segment produces and extracts iron ore and pellets, manganese, ferroalloys, and other ferrous products; and provides related logistic services. The Base Metals segment produces and extracts nickel and its by-products, such as gold, silver, cobalt, precious metals, and others, as well as copper.
The company was formerly known as Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and changed its name to Vale S.A. in May 2009. Vale S.A. was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
VALE operates in the Mining | Non-Metallic And Industrial Metal Mining | approximately 64,500 employees | led by CEO Eduardo De Salles Bartolomeo.
Updated February 16, 2026
Our six-factor quantitative model, which ranks 7,333 publicly traded U.S. companies on quality, value, momentum, investment efficiency, financial stability, and short interest positioning, assigns Vale S.A. a Strong Buy rating with a composite score of 76/100 — placing it at rank #7 in the entire universe.
What makes this rating noteworthy is not any single exceptional factor, but the breadth of strength across the profile. Vale S.A.'s dominant factor is value at 93/100, followed closely by quality at 88/100. Even the weakest factor, investment efficiency at 59/100, sits comfortably above average.
At $38.7 billion, Vale S.A. operates in the Mining sector where it ranks 1st out of 50 stocks — the 98th percentile among its peers. The factor profile suggests the market may be underpricing the risk-reward equation here.
Six-Factor Scorecard
Our model evaluates every U.S. stock across six independently measured dimensions. Each score represents a percentile rank — a score of 80 means the stock ranks higher than 80 percent of all companies on that factor.
Key Financial Metrics
Quality Analysis
Vale S.A.'s quality score of 88/100 places it among the top profitability performers in the market. The quality factor evaluates margins, return on equity, return on assets, and earnings consistency — the fundamental building blocks of a durable business.
Return on equity of 15.8% exceeds the sector median of 4.0%. Gross margins of 36.6% are competitive for the sector. Operating margins of 22.8% sit above the 7.0% sector average.
Net margins of 15.9% demonstrate that the company efficiently converts revenue into bottom-line profit.
Valuation Assessment
A value score of 93/100 puts VALE in the top 7 percent of all stocks on cheapness — suggesting the market is significantly underpricing the company's fundamentals. Key valuation metrics include a P/E ratio of 6.3x, an EV/EBITDA of 5.1x, a price-to-book of 1.2x, a price-to-sales of 1.0x. Deep value scores like this historically correlate with above-average forward returns, though they can also reflect legitimate concerns about business quality that the value factor does not capture.
Momentum & Timing
A momentum score of 66/100 shows VALE is trending above average, with its stock price outperforming the majority of the market. This is not explosive, meme-stock-style momentum — it is the gradual, fundamental-driven kind that tends to persist.
Revenue growth of -8.9% is declining, which makes the momentum signal more precarious. A beta of 0.83 means Vale S.A. moves roughly in line with the broader market.
Our entry timing model currently signals Favorable, which warrants caution despite the price trend.
Risk Factors
No investment comes without risks, and honest analysis requires flagging them clearly:
- Model limitations. Quantitative models measure what is measurable — financial ratios, price trends, leverage — but cannot capture qualitative factors like management quality, competitive positioning, or pending litigation. This analysis should be supplemented with fundamental due diligence.
- Market regime risk. Factor-based strategies perform differently across market regimes. The current factor exposures that support Vale S.A.'s rating may become headwinds if the macro environment shifts — for example, if interest rates move sharply or if sector rotation accelerates.
Bottom Line
Vale S.A. earns a Strong Buy rating with a composite score of 76/100 and 5 out of 5 stars, ranking #7 out of 7,333 stocks. The quantitative profile is among the strongest in the market — not because of any single factor, but because of consistent strength across multiple dimensions.
Stocks with this multi-factor profile have historically delivered above-average risk-adjusted returns over three to twelve month horizons. Whether that pattern holds for VALE specifically is, of course, uncertain — quantitative models identify probabilities, not certainties.
Explore the full VALE analysis page for interactive factor breakdowns, DCF valuation, and risk analytics, or view the complete stock rankings.
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