The Brazilian miner Vale has posted a net profit of $2.769 billion for Q2 2024, against $928 million for Q2 2023.
Under the same comparative basis, net sales revenues increased by 3 percent to $9.920 billion, the gross profit declined by 4 percent to $3.571 billion, the operational profit increased by 35 percent to $3.875 billion, and the pre-tax profit increased by 1 percent to $2.735 billion.
The sharp increase of the net profit, 198 percent, reflects chiefly a poor base of comparison as in Q2 2023 taxes had a negative impact of $1.792 billion while in Q2 2024, taxes had a positive impact of $34 million related to deferred taxes.
When comparing Q2 2024 to Q1 2024, net sales revenues increased by 17 percent, the gross profit increased by 15 percent, the operational profit increased by 58 percent, and the net profit increased by 64 percent.
In Q2 2024, the iron ore fines business of Vale was equivalent to 76.9 percent of the company’s proforma EBITDA, while iron ore pellets responded for 17.7 percent and other ferrous minerals for 3.5 percent.