Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) price on Thursday, May 01, rose 2.15% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $0.46.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $0.45, moving within a range at $0.4313 and $0.4721. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.456. Turning to its 52-week performance, $2.99 and $0.22 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, BW moved 0.66% over the past month.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $45.33 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-30.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 162.6M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 151.4M and 168.4M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -21.68% 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 756.37M, representing a 5.45% jump 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 BW 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 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend BW 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.
BW’s current price about 27.62% and -34.69% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 46.77, while 7-day volatility ratio is 14.72% and 21.05% in the 30-day chart. Further, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) has a beta value of 1.76, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.07. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $1, forecast between a low of $1 and high of $1. Looking at the price targets, the low is -117.39% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -117.39%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -117.39% jump to $1 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.91 over the past 10 days and 1.41 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 95.14 million shares.
The 5.75% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 71.41% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 4.04 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 1.96. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) stood at 615.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 2.0 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -71.91% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the BW stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
