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RIO Tinto PLC RIO

11 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$57.6B
▲ 7.4% YoY
$10.0B
▼ 13.7% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Rio Tinto owns and operates mining and processing assets across the world and across commodities. It explores in 15 countries. Its share of aluminium production in 2025 was 3,380 kt, and its share of bauxite production 62.4 Mt. Copper production on a consolidated basis came to 883 kt, and Pilbara iron ore production on a 100% basis to 327.3 Mt. The group works on 6 continents through three businesses: Aluminium & Lithium, Copper and Iron Ore. Aluminium & Lithium joins aluminium operations in the Pacific and Atlantic regions with lithium operations and growth projects in Argentina, Canada and Chile. The Copper group holds operations in Chile, Mongolia and the US. Iron Ore gathers the operations in Western Australia and Canada.

Written from the business description in RIO TINTO PLC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 57.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 11-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 57.6 · Net income 10.0
25.0B50.0B201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+1.2%
+5.3%
+5.2%
−7.0%
+0.4%
−7.2%
+0.3%
+18.0%
+11.3%
−19.4%
−0.6%
+0.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.3% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +0.4%, earnings per share at +0.3%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
18 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 25.9% · Net 17.8%
20%40%201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 17.0%
20%40%201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 17 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 6.1B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 6.1 · Net buybacks —
8BDividendsNet buybacks201520172019202120232025

USD 6.1B in dividends — 62% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 128.1B
EquityUSD 62.2B
CashUSD 8.9B
Gross debtUSD 21.9B
Net debtUSD 13.1B
Current ratio1.44×

Net debt stands at 21% of equity.

The 11-year record
11 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Revenue $B57.653.754.055.663.544.643.240.540.033.834.8
Operating income $B14.915.714.819.929.816.811.517.714.16.83.6
EBITDA $B15.516.215.320.430.321.115.821.718.511.68.3
Income tax $B4.34.03.85.68.25.04.14.24.01.61.0
Net income $B10.011.610.112.421.19.88.013.68.84.6−0.9
EPS, diluted $6.087.076.177.6012.966.004.887.88486.92255.30−47.50
Dividend / sh $·····3.866.353.072.351.522.27
Payout %626164957363129394959−471
ROE %17.021.019.124.342.722.219.030.920.912.0−2.3

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 3 failures in 42 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 8 of 19 fiscal years. 34 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente3 failures
ActivityMetal Mining
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code X0
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2015

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