The research aims to show a comparative analysis regarding the performance of the economic and financial indicators of the financial statements prepared by the Brazilian mining company Vale S / A listed in Brazil, Bolsa e Balcão (B3) in the period of 2014 and 2018, therefore to To reach this purpose, the study was made possible through a documentary research through a survey of secondary data, the indicators used in the research were those of liquidity, profitability and indebtedness. The results present relevant data for the mining segment, mainly the liquidity indicators, where they showed that the entity can afford its debts in the short term, whereas the entity's indebtedness indicators showed that its debts are controlled. Finally, the profitability indicators, in some years, suffered from low values, but showed a slight increase in the last analyzed periods.
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