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Also trades as: VALE3.SA (SAO) · $vol 246M · XVALO.MC (BME) · $vol 0M

VALE Short Interest

Vale S.A.
1W: -8.6% 1M: -12.0% 3M: -16.6% YTD: -7.1% 1Y: +13.2% 3Y: +23.4% 5Y: +24.4%
$11.84
-0.16 (-1.33%)
After Hours: $11.82 (-0.02, -0.13%)
Weekly Expected Move ±4.0%
$11 $12 $12 $13 $13
NYSE · Basic Materials · Industrial Materials · Tech Score Strong Sell · Power 36 · $50.4B mcap · 4.07B float · 0.690% daily turnover · Short 35% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: lower than 62% of companies Debt: 27.1% of company value Bonds: none of note held by US funds details ▾
If the stock fell to about $0.31 (down 97%), Vale S.A. would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $18.94B against a stock market value of $51.07B.
Distance to default 6.44 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-26, balance sheet 2026-06-30, debt counted $9.87B (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 33.4%; Altman Z'' 1.67. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
US fund filings (SEC N-PORT) show under $25M of this company's bonds, so there is no bond page. Its debt may be bank loans or privately placed. How these are computed.

Short Volume Summary

2026-10-26
30.1%
Short Ratio
of total volume
49.4%
20-Day Avg
49.1%
50-Day Avg
▼ Falling
5-Day Trend
9.9M
Short Volume
33.0M
Total Volume

Daily Short Volume Ratio

Short Volume vs Total Volume

Exchange Breakdown

2026-10-26
ExchangeShort VolumeTotal VolumeShort %
NASDAQ 9,439,165 31,187,384 30.3%
NYSE 440,942 1,651,330 26.7%
BATS 39,798 140,337 28.4%

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