Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) price on current trading day, fall -2.74% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $13.62.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $14.00, moving within a range at $13.36 and $13.83. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.939 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 5.06. Turning to its 52-week performance, $29.94 and $12.15 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, BTU moved -9.10% over the past month.
Peabody Energy Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $1.66 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-05. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.30, with its dividend yield at 2.20%. 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 976.57M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 961.7M and 991M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -0.72% 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 4.05B, representing a -4.49% 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 BTU is a 50% 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.
2 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, 2 recommend BTU 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.
BTU’s current price about 0.69% and -15.53% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 43.35, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.79% and 5.72% in the 30-day chart. Further, Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) has a beta value of 0.51, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.78. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $27.5, forecast between a low of $26 and high of $29. Looking at the price targets, the low is -90.9% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -112.92%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -101.91% jump to $27.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.54 over the past 10 days and 3.72 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 121.40 million shares.
The 0.77% of Peabody Energy Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 92.49% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 14.8 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 4.01. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) stood at 1631.9999 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 11.36 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -34.98% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the BTU stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
