During the recent session, Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU)’s traded shares were 1.23 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.53. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $13.95, reflecting an intraday loss of -2.24% or -$0.32. The 52-week high for the BTU share is $29.94, that puts it down -114.62 from that peak though still a striking 31.11% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $9.61. The company’s market capitalization is $1.70B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 3.85 million shares, and the average trade volume was 5.18 million shares over the past three months.
Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.00. BTU has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 2 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 2 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) trade information
Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) registered a -2.24% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -2.24% in intraday trading to $13.95, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 5.12%, and it has moved by -0.71% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -38.19%. The short interest in Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) is 15.48 million shares and it means that shorts have 3.21 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $27.5, which implies an increase of 49.27% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $26 and $29 respectively. As a result, BTU is trading at a discount of -107.89% off the target high and -86.38% off the low.
While earnings are projected to return -77.51% in 2025, the next five years will return 2.01% per annum.
BTU Dividends
Peabody Energy Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-06. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Peabody Energy Corp is 0.30, with the dividend yield indicating at 2.15 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU)’s Major holders
Peabody Energy Corp insiders own 0.65% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 94.97%, with the float percentage being 95.59%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 397.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 17.15 million shares (or 13.6105% of all shares), a total value of $379.34 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 14.07 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 11.1697% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $311.31 million.
