Baytex Energy Corp (NYSE:BTE) price on Wednesday, May 21, fall -0.61% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $1.63.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $1.64, moving within a range at $1.63 and $1.68. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.813 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 5.63. Turning to its 52-week performance, $3.84 and $1.36 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, BTE moved -4.12% over the past month.
Baytex Energy Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $1.25 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-04. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.06, with its dividend yield at 3.95%. 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 770.1M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 770.1M and 770.1M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -32.04% 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 3.31B, representing a -21.33% 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 BTE 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.
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 BTE 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.
BTE’s current price about -0.91% and -10.80% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 45.79, while 7-day volatility ratio is 4.83% and 6.04% in the 30-day chart. Further, Baytex Energy Corp (BTE) has a beta value of 0.99, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.12.
If we refocus on Baytex Energy Corp (NYSE:BTE), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 43.35 over the past 10 days and 44.88 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 770.04 million shares.
The 13.51% of Baytex Energy Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 31.87% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 68.6 million on 2025-04-30, giving us a short ratio of 1.6. Current price change has pushed the stock -36.82% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the BTE stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
