Rio Tinto Plc (RIO) Analyst Ratings & Price Targets

Rio Tinto Plc

RIO · NYSE

Analyst Consensus

Hold

12 analysts

$98

Current

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Low

$102

Average

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High

Average target implies +4.47% versus the current price.

Analyst Ratings Synthesis

The supplied consensus is Hold from 12 analysts, with a mean target of $102; low and high figures for that specific consensus are unavailable. Published aggregators are less uniform: Benzinga reports $88.50, ChartMill $95.94, TipRanks $96.62, and MarketBeat $101.75, while OAS gives a broader $83.50-$120.00 range. The named most bullish analyst in the supplied evidence is Freedom Broker, with a $97 target, and the least bullish is Bernstein at $83.50, although those figures may come from different dates. No dated revision record permits a reliable conclusion about the direction of changes during the past week. The substantive disagreement is whether Rio Tinto’s physical-asset and AI-infrastructure exposure warrants targets near or above $100, or whether valuation and commodity sensitivity justify lower targets.

Rating Actions

No individual rating actions have been captured for RIOyet. Consensus figures above come from Nasdaq's aggregate feed.

Rating actions are extracted from published reporting. Each row links to its source.

Research Reports

Rio Tinto’s Results Make the Case for Looking Beyond Tech in the AI TradeMarketBeat
Bullish

Links to freely available third-party research. Outlook labels are our classification of each article's stance, not a rating of our own.

Covering Firms

B OF A GLBL RES

BARCLAYS CAPITA

BERENBERG BANK

CITIGROUP

DEUTSCHE BK SEC

EXANE BNP PARIB

GOLDMAN SACHS

JEFFERIES & CO.

JP MORGAN SECUR

MACQUARIE CAPIT

SANFORD BERNSTE

UBS

Symbol: RIO
Type: Stock
Sector: Basic Materials
Industry: Metal Mining
Exchange: NYSE

Rio Tinto searches for and extracts a variety of minerals worldwide, with the heaviest concentrations in North America and Australia. Iron ore is the dominant commodity, with significantly lesser contributions from aluminium, copper, 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. Shareholders in each company have equivalent economic and voting rights.

Key Issues

Bullish view

Rio Tinto’s first-half report supports MarketBeat’s view that physical assets may benefit from a multi-year shift toward infrastructure, including artificial-intelligence-related demand.

Bearish view

The supplied evidence does not establish that Rio Tinto’s earnings or commodity prices will capture that theme, leaving the stock exposed if the broader physical-asset trade loses momentum.