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

Rio Tinto is a global diversified miner. Iron ore is its major commodity, with lesser contributions from copper and aluminum. Lithium, diamonds, gold, and industrial minerals are more minor contributors. 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 August 19, 2026, RIO stock price climbed to $100.44 with 2,735,552 million shares trading.

RIO has a beta of 0.95, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. RIO has a correlation of 0.21 to the broad based SPY ETF.

RIO has a market cap of $163.41 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, RIO traded as high as $112.58 and as low as $51.67.

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

RIO has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +74.1% while the SPY ETF gained +20.7%. However, in the short term, RIO had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -0.8% vs +4.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, RIO shares have fared better than the market returning +3.6% compared to SPY -0.3%.

RIO support price is $95.13 and resistance is $98.25 (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.