After Hours
It may be riskier to trade before market opening and after market closing than during regular market hours. Since issuers often announce critical financial information outside regular trading hours. Extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads for particular securities due to lower liquidity and higher volatility. After-hours trades for Vale S.A. (VALE) shows that investor sentiment remained intact, with the stock’s consolidated last price rising by $0.07, or 0.50%, to $14.07. The Vale S.A. has recorded 64,001 volume in the after hours trading session. The stock was recently discussed on Yahoo Finance as it revealed that STEADRIGHT ANNOUNCES NEW EXPERIENCED CRITICAL MINERALS BOARD MEMBER.
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Stocks Info
Vale S.A. is listed on the NYSE in the Basic Materials sector while operating in the Other Industrial Metals & Mining industry. At the end of the last regular session, the stock closed at $14.00 and fluctuated between $14.26 as its day high and $13.81 as its day low. The current market capitalization of Vale S.A. is $61.35B. A total of 20.19 million shares were traded on the day, compared to an average of 24.18M shares.
Dividend
The reasons why investors prefer dividend-paying companies are that dividends generate immediate cash flow and indicate that the company will perform well in the future. Vale S.A. pays an annual dividend of $1.09, resulting in a dividend yield of 7.78%, and it has a price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 4.39. VALE’s most recent ex-dividend date was 3/14/2023 when it declared a $0.3542 quarterly dividend that was paid in cash on 3/29/2023. Previously, the company paid the dividend on 12/13/2022 with an ex-dividend date of 12/13/2022. The VALE stock dividend was $0.0474 per share in cash.
Despite rarely being accurate, price targets can exert some form of influence at times, and are often regarded as valuable by markets. According to analysts who have offered 12-month price targets for VALE in the last 3 months, the mean price target is $18.52 with high estimates of $25.50 and low estimates of $12.50. In terms of 52-week highs and lows, VALE has a high of $19.31 and a low of $11.68.
As of this writing, VALE has an earnings estimate of $0.65 per share for the current quarter. EPS was calculated based on a consensus of 9 estimates, with a high estimate of $0.77 per share and a lower estimate of $0.53. The company reported an EPS of $0.82 in the last quarter, which was 34.40% higher than expectations of $0.61.
Balance Sheet Annually/Quarterly
As well as showing the assets and liabilities of the company, the balance sheet also shows the amount invested in equity by investors. Investors can analyze a company’s future prospects by calculating its financial ratios based on this information. VALE’s latest balance sheet shows that the firm has $11.90B in Cash & Short Term Investments as of fiscal 2021. There were $17.20B in debt and $15.20B in liabilities at the time. Its Book Value Per Share was $8.55, while its Total Shareholder’s Equity was $35.31B.
Analysts Opinion
After-hours and pre-market trading may carry slightly higher risks than regular market hours. As issuers often announce important financial information outside regular trading hours, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads for a particular security. That is because extended-hours trading may result in lower liquidity and higher volatility. Currently, 0 analysts are providing their opinions on the stock. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being Sell and 5 being Buy, the average analyst rating for VALE is Buy with a score of 4.00.
