Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price down by -2.43% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $14.05.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $14.40, falling within a range of $13.73 and $14.3048. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.939 whereas the PE ratio was 5.22 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $29.94, and the low was $12.15. On the whole, BTU has fluctuated by -2.29% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Peabody Energy Corp currently standing at about $1.71 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-05. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.30, with its dividend yield at 2.14%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 4.05B, with a low estimate of 961.7M and a high estimate of 991M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 976.57M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that BTU’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of BTU currently trading nearly 4.26% and -10.86% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 46.85, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.80% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.78%. Furthermore, Peabody Energy Corp (BTU)’s beta value is 0.50, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.76.
A comparison of Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. BTU showed an intraday change of -2.43% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -41.85%%.
Data on historical trading for Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 5.09 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.89 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 121.40 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.77% of Peabody Energy Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 92.50% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 17.05 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 3.82. According to the data, the short interest in Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) stood at 1880.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 11.54 million. The stock has fallen by -32.90% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the BTU stock heading into the next quarter.
