Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 1.98% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $1.03.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $1.01, moving within a range at $1.0146 and $1.0599. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.607. Turning to its 52-week performance, $2.99 and $0.22 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, BW moved 22.62% over the past month.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $101.36 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-12.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 174.03M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 157.5M and 191M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -25.50% 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 736.88M, representing a 2.73% 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 Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% 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 -3.10% and 28.64% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 55.45, while 7-day volatility ratio is 7.86% and 14.13% in the 30-day chart. Further, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) has a beta value of 1.72. 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 2.91% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 2.91%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 2.91% 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 0.68 over the past 10 days and 2.57 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 98.40 million shares.
The 6.29% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 67.65% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 3.83 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 1.01. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) stood at 583.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 3.33 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -33.55% 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.
