Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE: BW): Can A Stock That’s Down -71.69% YTD Still Be Considered In Loss Territory?

During the last session, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW)’s traded shares were 1.28 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.43. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $0.46, reflecting an intraday gain of 11.77% or $0.04. The 52-week high for the BW share is $2.99, that puts it down -550.0 from that peak though still a striking 52.17% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $0.22. The company’s market capitalization is $45.69M, and the average trade volume was 1.48 million shares over the past three months.

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.33. BW has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 2 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it.

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

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) registered a 11.77% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 11.77% in intraday trading to $0.46, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 0.78%, and it has moved by 47.91% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -60.32%.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $1, which implies an increase of 54.0% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $1 and $1 respectively. As a result, BW is trading at a discount of -117.39% off the target high and -117.39% off the low.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 17.83%. While earnings are projected to return 80.56% in 2025.

BW Dividends

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

The next largest institutional holding, with 6.05 million shares, is of NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC’s that is approximately 6.6481% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $8.78 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) shares are NEUBERGER BERMAN EQUITY FUNDS-Neuberger Berman Intrinsic Value Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Feb 28, 2025 indicates that NEUBERGER BERMAN EQUITY FUNDS-Neuberger Berman Intrinsic Value Fund owns about 1.9 shares. This amounts to just over 1.94 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $0.88 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.84, or about 1.87% of the stock, which is worth about $0.86 million.