Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU)’s traded shares stood at 1.03 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.57. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $11.79, to imply an increase of 4.95% or $0.56 in intraday trading. The BTU share’s 52-week high remains $29.94, putting it -153.94% down since that peak but still an impressive 18.49% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $9.61. The company has a valuation of $1.43B, with an average of 8.19 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 4.73 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Peabody Energy Corp (BTU), translating to a mean rating of 1.00. Of 2 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give BTU a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 0 advise Hold as 2 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.03.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) trade information
After registering a 4.95% upside in the latest session, Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 12.57%, and -9.41% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -43.72%. Short interest in Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) saw shorts transact 17.05 million shares and set a 3.82 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $29 and $29 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, BTU has been trading -145.97% off suggested target high and -145.97% from its likely low.
Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -5.50% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 2 analysts is 950.85M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 1 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 954.8M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 983.6M and 1.04B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -3.33% before dropping -8.37% in the following quarter.
BTU Dividends
Peabody Energy Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-05. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Peabody Energy Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 0.30, with the share yield ticking at 2.55% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU)’s Major holders
Peabody Energy Corp insiders hold 0.60% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 93.73% of the shares at 94.30% float percentage. In total, 93.73% institutions holds shares in the company, led by BLACKROCK INC.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 17.15 million shares (or 13.6105% of shares), all amounting to roughly $379.34 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 14.07 million shares, or about 10.9866% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $311.31 million.
We also have iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and Pacer Funds Trust-Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows ETF as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) shares. Going by data provided on Feb 28, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF holds roughly 7.74 shares. This is just over 6.37% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $91.54 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 7.3, or 6.01% of the shares, all valued at about 86.3 million.
