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Posted on February 18, 2026<\/p>\n
1 min read<\/p>\n
Last updated: February 18, 2026<\/p>\n
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Glencore’s Financial Performance and Shareholder Returns<\/p>\n
LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Glencore, fresh from a failed takeover approach from bigger rival Rio Tinto, reported slightly lower earnings on Wednesday, and said it would return $2 billion to shareholders.<\/p>\n
Details of the Failed Takeover<\/p>\n
Talks to forge a $240 billion global mining giant were called off in February over differences on valuation and ownership.<\/p>\n
Earnings Overview and Analyst Expectations<\/p>\n
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation fell 6% to $13.51 billion last year, from $14.36 billion in 2024, above analysts’ consensus estimates of $13.3 billion.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Clara Denina and Pratima Desai; editing by Barbara Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editorial & Advertiser disclosure Global Banking & Finance Review\u00ae is an online platform offering news, analysis, and opinion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[8618,538,8617,834,132,1907,1084,8616],"class_list":{"0":"post-11405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glencore","8":"tag-adjusted-earnings","9":"tag-analyst-estimates","10":"tag-failed-takeover","11":"tag-financial-performance","12":"tag-glencore","13":"tag-mining-industry","14":"tag-rio-tinto","15":"tag-shareholder-returns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}