Vale (VALE) Beginning Cash Balance (2009 - 2018)

Vale has disclosed Beginning Cash Balance across 10 years of filings, most recently posting -$1.2 billion for Q3 2018.

• Beginning Cash Balance for Q3 2018 came in at -$1.2 billion, down 141.48% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Sep 2018 was -$9.3 billion (down 208.08% YoY), and the FY2017 annual result was -$9.0 billion, down 216.6% from the prior year.
• Beginning Cash Balance came in at -$1.2 billion for Q3 2018 at Vale, up from -$2.6 billion in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Beginning Cash Balance ranged from a high of $2.8 billion in Q3 2017 to a low of -$3.2 billion in Q4 2017.
• The 5-year median for Beginning Cash Balance is $724.8 million (2014), against an average of $469.8 million.
• Across the five-year window, Beginning Cash Balance jumped 283.39% in 2016 and sank 303.67% in 2018, its largest moves.
• Vale's Beginning Cash Balance stood at $724.8 million in 2014, then jumped by 44.28% to $1.0 billion in 2015, then soared by 165.39% to $2.8 billion in 2016, then tumbled by 215.68% to -$3.2 billion in 2017, then surged by 63.58% to -$1.2 billion in 2018.
• The last three Beginning Cash Balance figures came in at -$1.2 billion (Q3 2018), -$2.6 billion (Q2 2018), and -$2.3 billion (Q1 2018), per Business Quant data.