Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) Jumps 29.96%, But Further Rally Could Be Imminent

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In last trading session, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) saw 2.41 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.90. Company’s recent per share price level of $0.42 trading at $0.1 or 29.96% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $41.20M. That closing price of BW’s stock is at a discount of -611.9% from its 52-week high price of $2.99 and is indicating a premium of 47.62% from its 52-week low price of $0.22. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 2.67 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.36 million if we extend that period to 3-months.

For Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.33. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 1 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of -0.16 in the current quarter.

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) trade information

Upright in the green during last session for gaining 29.96%, in the last five days BW remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 04/24/25 when the stock touched $0.42 price level, adding 0.76% to its value on the day. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc’s shares saw a change of -74.48% in year-to-date performance and have moved 22.72% in past 5-day. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) showed a performance of -51.41% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 2.56 million shares which calculate 2.83 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 1 to the stock, which implies a rise of 58.0% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 1 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 1. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -138.1% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -138.1% for stock’s current value.

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) estimates and forecasts

This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 5.45% from the last financial year’s standing.

3 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 162.6M for the same. And 3 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 181.7M in the next quarter. Company posted 207.6M and 233.6M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 17.83% during past 5 years.

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 5.39% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 72.47 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 76.60%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 72.47% institutions for Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. B. RILEY FINANCIAL, INC. is the top institutional holder at BW for having 27.45 million shares of worth $39.8 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 30.1448 of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC, which was holding about 6.05 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.6481 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $8.78 million.

On the other hand, NEUBERGER BERMAN EQUITY FUNDS-Neuberger Berman Intrinsic Value Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Feb 28, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 1.9 shares of worth $0.8 million or 1.94% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.84 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $0.77 million in the company or a holder of 1.87% of company’s stock.