Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE: BW): Are We Watching A Disaster Or Are We Buying A Gold Mine?

In the last trading session, 0.85 million shares of the Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) were traded, and its beta was 1.43. Most recently the company’s share price was $0.44, and it changed around -$0.02 or -4.31% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $43.71M. BW currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $2.99, offering almost -579.55% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $0.22, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 50.0% since then.

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.33. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 3 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 0 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 2 recommended BW as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.

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

Instantly BW has showed a red trend with a performance of -4.31% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 0.4888 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 9.98%. The company’s shares are currently down -72.91% year-to-date, but still up 6.22% over the last five days. On the other hand, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) is 10.69% up in the 30-day period.

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $1, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 56.0% from its current value. Analyst projections state that BW is forecast to be at a low of $1 and a high of $1.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 17.83%.

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Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in June.

NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC, with 6.6481% or 6.05 million shares worth $8.78 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

NEUBERGER BERMAN EQUITY FUNDS-Neuberger Berman Intrinsic Value Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Feb 28, 2025 . The former held 1.9 shares worth $0.85 million, making up 1.94% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 1.84 shares worth around $0.82 million, which represents about 1.87% of the total shares outstanding.