Market Maintains Risky Bet on China’s Continued Fiscal Support, and Rio Tinto Exposed Via Iron Ore
We maintain our AUD 42 per share fair value estimate for no-moat-rated Rio Tinto. Second-quarter 2017 was slightly weaker than expected. We lower our 2017 adjusted earnings forecast to USD 5.46 per share from USD 5.54 per share previously. Realised commodity prices were slightly higher than expected, particularly for aluminium and copper, while iron ore was broadly as forecast. However, production overall was weaker. Guidance for iron ore shipments is cut to 330 million tonnes versus 330 million...Rio Tinto is a mining group based in the United Kingdom and Australia. Co. is engaged in the business of finding, mining and processing mineral resources. Co.'s major products are iron ore, aluminium, copper, diamonds, coal, uranium, gold and industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide and salt). Co.'s activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Co.'s operations comprise four principal product groups - Iron Ore, Aluminium, Copper and Diamonds, and Energy & Minerals.
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