Am I seeing this right? Dividend is 18%?
Part of it is the stock is down right now, but it's still a fairly high yield stock if it goes up into the low $20s.
Looks as if Vale has had a rather large number of recent problems: conveyor belt fire, 2 dam failures, trapped miners, and operations halted for non-compliance.
Just scroll through the recent news feed. I took it as a buying opportunity, assuming it's some bad luck and hopefully not an indication of total incompetence.
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It could be either. I'm not sure.
I've noticed mining stocks can be very volatile, especially lately. I inherited a couple of mining stocks and bought a couple myself. In the biggest winner or loser on a given day, a mining stock is often at one extreme or the other. In the same week the biggest loser one day could be the biggest winner later in the week.