RIO

Key Takeaways

• Rio Tinto is one of the world's largest diversified miners, with iron ore close to half of the business and aluminium, copper, and a growing lithium arm filling out the rest, so its earnings track global commodity prices and volumes more than any single project. • The defining risk is the commodity cycle itself: the price implies roughly flat-to-declining company-wide operating profit, and a genuine iron-ore or copper downcycle would push results below even that modest bar, with peer BHP's iro

Institutional ownership

921 institutional managers reported holding RIO in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 8% of the company; the top 10 hold 4%. 142 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Fisher Investments, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, among others. On the short side, 11.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 0.7% of shares outstanding (4.2 days of typical volume to cover).

Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.

Capital returns

RIO's share count is about flat over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (11 and counting). Cash returned over the past three years: $29.28B in dividends.

Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.

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