Warrior Met Coal Inc (NYSE:HCC) price on Friday, February 07, fall -1.54% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $52.41.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $53.23, moving within a range at $52.0 and $54.19. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.042 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 7.24. Turning to its 52-week performance, $75.53 and $49.97 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HCC moved 0.15% over the past month.
Warrior Met Coal Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $2.74 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.32, with its dividend yield at 0.61%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 306.74M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 284.6M and 331.7M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -15.68% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 1.53B, representing a -8.55% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that HCC is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
4 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 4 recommend HCC as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
HCC’s current price about -2.50% and -9.29% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 41.63, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.97% and 3.99% in the 30-day chart. Further, Warrior Met Coal Inc (HCC) has a beta value of 1.08, and an average true range (ATR) of 2.07. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $37, forecast between a low of $37 and high of $37. Looking at the price targets, the low is 29.4% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 29.4%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 29.4% jump to $37 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Warrior Met Coal Inc (NYSE:HCC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.51 over the past 10 days and 648.14K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 52.31 million shares.
The 1.74% of Warrior Met Coal Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 100.47% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 5.84 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 8.13. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in Warrior Met Coal Inc (HCC) stood at 1552.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 5.49 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock -3.37% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HCC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
