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VALE S.A.
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VALE in the last 90 days
VALE S.A. (VALE) had no congress transactions and 5 insider purchases worth $6,355 by 2 insiders in filings from the last 90 days.
FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 46,146,978 shares held short, 1.4 days to cover, up 5.1% from the report before.
- Insiders: open-market purchases only (Form 4 code P); a purchase filed by related owners counts once.
- Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.
Latest filing on file: 10 AUG 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed
What the price is doing
VALE is down 17%, and short sellers have been backing off.
Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are down 34% over the same stretch.
Insider activityBoughtSoldHover a dot for details
Short sellers
11 reports · twice a month
Money betting VALE falls. Reported twice a month, and it shows up seven working days late.
Quiet Money
Our take on how well VALE holds up when sellers show up.
How it holds up · last 60 trading days
Through 21 SEPT 2026
Resilient
When VALE gets hit, it tends to hold up better than usual.
Lately, VALE has been harder to push down than usual.
That's been true for the last 11 trading days.
The last 6 months
What the filings show
What the filings show · last 90 days
2 of 4 sources
+55Leaning in
The disclosed money is leaning into this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on two of the four sources we track.
- Short interest
- Short interest fell 21.1% — 58,497,355 to 46,146,978 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
- +53
- Insider purchases
- 2 insiders disclosed buying $6,355 across 2 filings.
- +57
This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.
FINRA short interest
Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short
46,146,978shares held short
Days to cover
1.43
Avg daily volume
32,160,160
Since last report
+5.13%
As of 15 September 2026, 46,146,978 VALE S.A. shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 2,253,844 shares more than the previous report, a 5.13% increase. At the average daily volume of 32,160,160 shares, that position represents 1.43 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.
This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for VALE — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.
Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has fallen from 59,196,387 shares on 31 March 2026 to 46,146,978 today, a change of 22.0%. The highest reading in that window was 70,429,636 shares on 15 April 2026.
| Settlement | Shares short | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|
| 15 SEPT 2026 | 46,146,978 | 1.43 |
| 31 AUG 2026 | 43,893,134 | 1.61 |
| 14 AUG 2026 | 46,429,068 | 1.92 |
| 31 JUL 2026 | 52,484,890 | 2.58 |
| 15 JUL 2026 | 58,497,355 | 2.55 |
| 30 JUN 2026 | 61,521,242 | 2.75 |
| 15 JUN 2026 | 62,245,458 | 2.59 |
| 29 MAY 2026 | 67,224,951 | 3.14 |
| 15 MAY 2026 | 49,833,671 | 1.90 |
| 30 APR 2026 | 64,382,036 | 2.69 |
| 15 APR 2026 | 70,429,636 | 2.63 |
| 31 MAR 2026 | 59,196,387 | 2.10 |
- What is VALE's short interest?
- 46,146,978 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
- What percentage of the float is short?
- We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
- How current is this?
- It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
- What does days to cover mean?
- It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 1.43. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
- Where does this come from?
- FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.
Disclosed insider buying on file
$6,355across 5 purchases
Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.
On file here
Short positions0
Insider purchases5
Congress transactions4
Latest change10 AUG 2026
Insider purchases on file
SEC — Form 4 insider purchase
Viana Madeira AndreDirector
BOUGHTCommon Shares
$60
4 sh @ $14.99
04 AUG 2026 → filed 10 AUG 2026
Filed 6 days after the tradeSEC EDGAR · 0001292814-26-004168 →SEC — Form 4 insider purchase
Viana Madeira AndreDirector
BOUGHTCommon Shares
$15
1 sh @ $15.02
01 JUL 2026 → filed 10 AUG 2026
Filed 40 days after the tradeSEC EDGAR · 0001292814-26-004168 →SEC — Form 4 insider purchase
Viana Madeira AndreDirector
BOUGHTCommon Shares
$15
1 sh @ $15.06
02 JUL 2026 → filed 10 AUG 2026
Filed 39 days after the tradeSEC EDGAR · 0001292814-26-004168 →SEC — Form 4 insider purchase
Viana Madeira AndreDirector
BOUGHTCommon Shares
$73
5 sh @ $14.63
03 AUG 2026 → filed 10 AUG 2026
Filed 7 days after the tradeSEC EDGAR · 0001292814-26-004168 →SEC — Form 4 insider purchase
de Souza Funo Elaine MariaAccounting Officer
BOUGHTCommon Shares
$6,192
406 sh @ $15.25
03 JUL 2026 → filed 07 AUG 2026
Filed 35 days after the tradeSEC EDGAR · 0001292814-26-004146 →
Congress transactions on file
4 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing
| Who | Amount as filed | Traded | Filed | Lag | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hon. Lisa McClain | BOUGHT | $1,001 – $15,000 | 30 OCT 2025 | 21 NOV 2025 | 22 days |
| Hon. Lisa McClain | SOLD | $1,001 – $15,000 | 31 OCT 2025 | 21 NOV 2025 | 21 days |
| Hon. Sheri Biggs | SOLD | $1,001 – $15,000 | 18 MAR 2025 | 05 OCT 2025 | 201 days — the law says 45 |
| Hon. Lisa McClain | BOUGHT | $1,001 – $15,000 | 24 JUN 2025 | 13 AUG 2025 | 50 days — the law says 45 |