RIO Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Rio Tinto PLC | NYSE:RIO)

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 the 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.

Rio Tinto PLC trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol RIO.

As of January 20, 2026, RIO stock price climbed to $85.68 with 3,614,757 million shares trading.

RIO has a beta of 0.78, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. RIO has a correlation of 0.32 to the broad based SPY ETF.

RIO has a market cap of $139.15 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, RIO traded as high as $87.34 and as low as $51.67.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that RIO belongs to (by Net Assets): LIT, FENI, FVD, AVDE, SLX.

RIO has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +49.5% while the SPY ETF gained +15.8%. RIO has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +24.6% and +5.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.9% and -0.8%, respectively.

RIO support price is $83.78 and resistance is $86.48 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that RIO shares will trade within this expected range on the day.