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Rio Tinto PLC

RIO
Exchange
NYSE
Industry
Metal Mining
SEC CIK
0000863064

No open-market purchases or sales by Rio Tinto PLC insiders were filed in the last 90 days; 977 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $12.2B in total; no superinvestor holds it.

Other share classesRTPPF

Four kinds of short-selling data, each measuring something different:

  • Short interest: shares sold short and not yet bought back, as of a settlement date. FINRA publishes it twice a month, about eight business days after the settlement date.
  • Daily short volume: shares sold short each day in off-exchange trades reported to FINRA. It counts trades, not open positions, and is published the next day.
  • Fails-to-deliver: shares not delivered by the settlement date. The SEC publishes them twice a month, about two weeks late.
  • ATS (dark pool) volume: weekly volume on alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues. FINRA publishes it two to four weeks after the week.

More in the glossary.

Short interest

Shares sold short and not yet bought back, from FINRA, on every settlement date in the last two years.

Short interest
7.98M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
−1.25M
−13.6% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
2.23
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
3.58M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 9,246,358 sharesNov 15, 2024: 8,993,245 sharesNov 29, 2024: 7,446,564 sharesDec 13, 2024: 9,072,805 sharesDec 31, 2024: 9,184,583 sharesJan 15, 2025: 8,254,044 sharesJan 31, 2025: 8,543,309 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 7,562,714 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 8,285,133 sharesMar 14, 2025: 8,584,415 sharesMar 31, 2025: 7,484,295 sharesApr 15, 2025: 6,329,987 sharesApr 30, 2025: 6,231,867 sharesMay 15, 2025: 7,870,022 sharesMay 30, 2025: 8,244,505 sharesJun 13, 2025: 9,735,042 sharesJun 30, 2025: 9,031,004 sharesJul 15, 2025: 8,071,820 sharesJul 31, 2025: 9,346,828 sharesAug 15, 2025: 8,468,005 sharesAug 29, 2025: 8,258,729 sharesSep 15, 2025: 6,337,556 sharesSep 30, 2025: 9,393,922 sharesOct 15, 2025: 11,290,624 sharesOct 31, 2025: 11,475,504 sharesNov 14, 2025: 12,475,930 sharesNov 28, 2025: 11,070,758 sharesDec 15, 2025: 15,103,757 sharesDec 31, 2025: 16,026,618 sharesJan 15, 2026: 14,666,987 sharesJan 30, 2026: 12,400,882 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 12,025,661 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 11,782,199 sharesMar 13, 2026: 11,998,736 sharesMar 31, 2026: 10,150,098 sharesApr 15, 2026: 10,071,976 sharesApr 30, 2026: 11,350,954 sharesMay 15, 2026: 11,758,168 sharesMay 29, 2026: 12,340,331 sharesJun 15, 2026: 11,757,878 sharesJun 30, 2026: 10,350,517 sharesJul 15, 2026: 9,263,337 sharesJul 31, 2026: 7,888,602 sharesAug 14, 2026: 8,989,331 sharesAug 31, 2026: 10,031,942 sharesSep 15, 2026: 9,810,781 sharesSep 30, 2026: 9,329,476 sharesOct 15, 2026: 9,236,257 sharesOct 30, 2026: 7,984,582 shares
Short interest in RIO by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 20267.98M−1.25M−13.6%3.58M2.23
Oct 15, 20269.24M−93.2K−1.0%2.01M4.60
Sep 30, 20269.33M−481.3K−4.9%1.81M5.16
Sep 15, 20269.81M−221.2K−2.2%1.74M5.65
Aug 31, 202610.0M+1.04M+11.6%2.36M4.25
Aug 14, 20268.99M+1.10M+14.0%2.17M4.15
Jul 31, 20267.89M−1.37M−14.8%2.98M2.65
Jul 15, 20269.26M−1.09M−10.5%2.89M3.20
Jun 30, 202610.4M−1.41M−12.0%2.70M3.84
Jun 15, 202611.8M−582.5K−4.7%2.81M4.18
May 29, 202612.3M+582.2K+5.0%2.39M5.16
May 15, 202611.8M+407.2K+3.6%2.62M4.49
Apr 30, 202611.4M+1.28M+12.7%2.42M4.69
Apr 15, 202610.1M−78.1K−0.8%2.49M4.05
Mar 31, 202610.2M−1.85M−15.4%3.43M2.96
Mar 13, 202612.0M+216.5K+1.8%3.54M3.39
Feb 27, 202611.8M−243.5K−2.0%3.36M3.51
Feb 13, 202612.0M−375.2K−3.0%4.16M2.89
Jan 30, 202612.4M−2.27M−15.5%4.44M2.80
Jan 15, 202614.7M−1.36M−8.5%5.07M2.89
Dec 31, 202516.0M+922.9K+6.1%2.58M6.21
Dec 15, 202515.1M+4.03M+36.4%3.82M3.96
Nov 28, 202511.1M−1.41M−11.3%2.27M4.88
Nov 14, 202512.5M+1.00M+8.7%2.51M4.97
Oct 31, 202511.5M+184.9K+1.6%3.45M3.32
Oct 15, 202511.3M+1.90M+20.2%3.64M3.10
Sep 30, 20259.39M+3.06M+48.2%3.75M2.51
Sep 15, 20256.34M−1.92M−23.3%2.89M2.19
Aug 29, 20258.26M−209.3K−2.5%2.57M3.22
Aug 15, 20258.47M−878.8K−9.4%2.91M2.91
Jul 31, 20259.35M+1.28M+15.8%3.72M2.51
Jul 15, 20258.07M−959.2K−10.6%4.88M1.65
Jun 30, 20259.03M−704.0K−7.2%3.33M2.72
Jun 13, 20259.74M+1.49M+18.1%3.13M3.11
May 30, 20258.24M+374.5K+4.8%3.74M2.21
May 15, 20257.87M+1.64M+26.3%2.29M3.44
Apr 30, 20256.23M−98.1K−1.6%2.77M2.25
Apr 15, 20256.33M−1.15M−15.4%4.47M1.42
Mar 31, 20257.48M−1.10M−12.8%2.86M2.62
Mar 14, 20258.58M+299.3K+3.6%3.51M2.45
Feb 28, 20258.29M+722.4K+9.6%3.14M2.64
Feb 14, 20257.56M−980.6K−11.5%2.55M2.96
Jan 31, 20258.54M+289.3K+3.5%4.08M2.10
Jan 15, 20258.25M−930.5K−10.1%2.95M2.80
Dec 31, 20249.18M+111.8K+1.2%2.41M3.81
Dec 13, 20249.07M+1.63M+21.8%3.71M2.45
Nov 29, 20247.45M−1.55M−17.2%1.89M3.93
Nov 15, 20248.99M−253.1K−2.7%2.95M3.04
Oct 31, 20249.25M−288.7K−3.0%2.39M3.87

Fails-to-deliver

Shares that weren't delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC, for the last 30 dates with fails. The price is the previous day's closing price published by the SEC.

Fails-to-deliver in RIO by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 13, 20265$94.30$471.5
Oct 9, 20262,202$93.34$205.5K
Aug 31, 20268,753$103.30$904.2K
Aug 24, 20261,095$105.30$115.3K
Aug 14, 20269,438$98.20$926.8K
Aug 12, 202634,775$100.99$3.51M
Aug 7, 2026120$99.65$12.0K
Aug 4, 2026100$95.90$9.59K
Jul 29, 202672$91.64$6.60K
Jul 20, 2026850$90.15$76.6K
Jul 17, 202613$90.67$1.18K
Jul 15, 202698,493$93.29$9.19M
Jul 10, 2026202$89.49$18.1K
Jun 30, 202620,165$94.29$1.90M
Jun 22, 20263,289$100.08$329.2K
Jun 18, 202635,170$102.67$3.61M
Jun 17, 2026187$105.74$19.8K
Jun 10, 20262,272$101.42$230.4K
Jun 8, 20265,393$100.69$543.0K
Jun 2, 202620,000$108.96$2.18M
Jun 1, 202620,000$106.39$2.13M
May 29, 202620,000$106.47$2.13M
May 27, 20261,115$106.94$119.2K
May 18, 2026365$103.69$37.8K
May 15, 202657,816$109.59$6.34M
May 14, 20262,721$112.04$304.9K
May 13, 20262,330$109.50$255.1K
May 1, 2026490$100.48$49.2K
Apr 30, 202613$96.49$1.25K
Apr 29, 202613$98.49$1.28K

Daily short volume

Off-exchange short-sale volume, not short interest: shares sold short each day in trades reported to FINRA, for the last 30 trading days.

The short volume ratio isn't a sentiment gauge: market makers sell short to fill buy orders and to hedge, so short sales are usually about half of off-exchange volume.

Off-exchange short volume in RIO by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 10, 2026195,0434,706699,49727.9%
Nov 9, 2026319,406172866,96136.8%
Nov 6, 2026352,1138,600867,53540.6%
Nov 5, 2026441,4858532,280,69819.4%
Nov 4, 2026304,4371,1731,058,08128.8%
Nov 3, 2026224,022777724,96930.9%
Nov 2, 2026292,1331,1871,132,02225.8%
Oct 30, 2026677,8971,1351,265,02253.6%
Oct 29, 20261,412,3895312,627,28353.8%
Oct 28, 2026271,44367736,03536.9%
Oct 27, 2026286,137643861,28933.2%
Oct 26, 2026271,0314,890890,42530.4%
Oct 23, 2026293,4094,207849,65934.5%
Oct 22, 2026320,8429641,116,87728.7%
Oct 21, 2026398,7017471,032,44838.6%
Oct 20, 2026337,7844371,076,80831.4%
Oct 19, 2026182,9211,191852,53521.5%
Oct 16, 2026248,124109957,91225.9%
Oct 15, 2026387,8981,0131,229,69631.5%
Oct 14, 2026225,0221,151786,98628.6%
Oct 13, 2026189,108431521,65536.3%
Oct 12, 2026183,3080466,29439.3%
Oct 9, 2026167,8851,433500,24433.6%
Oct 8, 2026239,151168541,14444.2%
Oct 7, 2026401,475761823,19548.8%
Oct 6, 2026351,73312685,01151.3%
Oct 5, 2026474,4382,4971,007,55247.1%
Oct 2, 2026226,497666529,59842.8%
Oct 1, 2026247,8714,629793,10331.3%
Sep 30, 2026267,9481,305647,89441.4%

ATS (dark pool) volume

Weekly volume on alternative trading systems (ATS) and other off-exchange (OTC) venues, from FINRA, for the last 12 weeks. ATS share is ATS volume ÷ (ATS + OTC volume), not a share of all trading.

Weekly ATS and OTC volume in RIO
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026T22,162,42751,0131,858,27622,19853.8%
Sep 28, 2026T22,096,66552,5892,505,49421,66945.6%
Sep 21, 2026T21,745,84739,9462,026,15122,64346.3%
Sep 14, 2026T21,508,40837,7461,802,74622,03245.6%
Sep 7, 2026T21,378,12234,4671,428,98417,59049.1%
Aug 31, 2026T21,956,17640,4472,087,24118,20548.4%
Aug 24, 2026T21,883,27340,8912,678,81722,52841.3%
Aug 17, 2026T23,058,21460,0323,669,95525,18045.5%
Aug 10, 2026T22,726,27951,0181,524,06423,01464.1%
Aug 3, 2026T22,636,75253,4411,349,87423,31166.1%
Jul 27, 2026T23,847,79968,4871,985,47922,65066.0%
Jul 20, 2026T22,436,03155,4392,363,33920,94750.8%