In the latest trading session, 1.4 million Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.53. With the company’s most recent per share price at $13.91 changing hands around $0.56 or 4.23% at last look, the market valuation stands at $1.69B. BTU’s current price is a discount, trading about -115.24% off its 52-week high of $29.94. The share price had its 52-week low at $12.15, which suggests the last value was 12.65% up since then. When we look at Peabody Energy Corp’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 4.42 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 3.62 million.
Analysts gave the Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.40. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended BTU as a Hold, 2 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Peabody Energy Corp’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.19.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) trade information
Instantly BTU is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 0.76%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -33.55%, with the 5-day performance at 0.76% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) is -14.16% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 14.8 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.01 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 27.5, meaning bulls need an upside of 49.42% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, BTU’s forecast low is 26 with 29 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -108.48% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -86.92% for it to hit the projected low.
Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -4.49% down from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 3 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 976.57M. 2 analysts are of the opinion that Peabody Energy Corp’s revenue for the current quarter will be 991.5M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 983.6M and 1.04B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -0.72%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at -4.85%.
BTU Dividends
Peabody Energy Corp is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-05. The 2.16% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.30. It is important to note, however, that the 2.16% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.57% of Peabody Energy Corp shares while 93.70% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 94.23%. There are 93.70% institutions holding the Peabody Energy Corp stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 13.3873% of the shares, roughly 17.15 million BTU shares worth $379.34 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 10.9866% or 14.07 million shares worth $311.31 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Oct 31, 2024 were Pacer Small Cap U.S. Cash Cows 100 ETF and iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF. With 7.92 shares estimated at $110.2 million under it, the former controlled 6.51% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF held about 6.43% of the shares, roughly 7.82 shares worth around $108.82 million.
