Rio Tinto Ltd rises Friday, underperforms the Materials sector

Here is the latest company close update for Rio Tinto Ltd, RIO.

Shares of Rio Tinto Ltd (RIO) opened at $116.45 this morning.

The company inched 0.66% to close at $116.66 Friday, May 02.

The Materials (XMJ) industry inched 0.92% to close at 16097.7.

Rio Tinto Ltd closed $7.88 below its 52-week high ($124.54), which the company achieved on Friday, February 21.

The stock underperformed some of its competitors Friday, as BHP Group Ltd (BHP), rose 0.66% to $38.08 and Fortescue Ltd (FMG), rose 1.05% to $16.35.

Trading volume of 1.4 million remained 235,102 below its 30-day average volume of 1.7 million.

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Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by DataLocal, a division of News Corp Australia, using data from Morningstar, extracted at 5.01pm, Friday, May 02. See our market data terms of use.