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Rio Tinto PLC

RIO#134 of 134 by buybacks

LSE · Basic Materials · Other Industrial Metals & Mining · UK

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Buybacks · FY2025—latest fiscal year
Buyback yield—repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · FY2025$6.27Bdividend yield —
Shareholder yield—buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr+0.7%1.64B shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flown/anot meaningful for this company
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in USD. Fiscal years end in December.
Shares outstanding
Share count up 0.7% over roughly five years. Falling is what a real buyback looks like.
Quarterly repurchases
Last 8 reported quarters, in USD. Orange bars mark quarters where the company issued more shares than it bought.

Fiscal-year detail

From the cash-flow statement as reported, in USD. Negative repurchases mean net share issuance.

Fiscal yearRepurchasesDividendsFree cash flow
FY2025Dec 2025—$6.27B$4.91B
FY2024Dec 2024—$7.03B$5.98B
FY2023Dec 2023—$6.47B$8.07B
FY2022Dec 2022$0$11.7B$9.38B
FY2021Dec 2021$0$15.4B$18.0B
FY2020Dec 2020$208M$6.13B$9.69B
FY2019Dec 2019$1.55B$10.3B$9.42B

About Rio Tinto PLC

Rio Tinto Group engages in exploring, mining, and processing mineral resources worldwide. The company operates through Iron Ore; Aluminium and lithium; and Copper segments. The Iron Ore segment engages in the iron ore mining, and salt and gypsum production in Western Australia. The Aluminum and lithium segment is involved in bauxite mining; alumina refining; and aluminium smelting, and recycling, as well as mining and processing of lithium. The Copper segment engages in mining and refining of copper, gold, silver,…

Market cap
GBX 116B
P/E (trailing)
13.1×
Fiscal year end
December
ISIN
GB0007188757
Reporting currency
USD
Data updated
Oct 10, 2026
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