FRANCO NEVADA Corp vs VALE S.A., two Mining stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where FNV and VALE diverge most: on revenue growth, FNV reads +4.0% and VALE reads -8.1%; on p/s, FNV reads 29.51 and VALE reads 1.58. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What FNV's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What VALE's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | FNV | VALE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $200.85 | $14.20 |
| Market cap | $38.7B | $60.6B |
| Sector | Mining | Mining |
| Stage | Cyclical | Cyclical |
| P/E | 54.6 | — |
| P/B | 5.07 | 1.76 |
| P/S | 29.51 | 1.58 |
| EV/EBITDA | 32.5 | 6.0 |
| Revenue growth | +4.0% | -8.1% |
| Gross margin | 73.6% | 35.0% |
| Operating margin | 82.8% | 15.4% |
| Net margin | 54.0% | 5.2% |
| Return on equity | 9.3% | 5.8% |
| Return on assets | 8.6% | 2.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 9.3% | 7.3% |
| FCF yield | 4.8% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 8.30 | 1.15 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.65 | 1.40 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 2 / 9 |
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