During the last session, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW)’s traded shares were 0.71 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.72. The 52-week high for the BW share is $2.99, that puts it down -184.76 from that peak though still a striking 79.05% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $0.22. The company’s market capitalization is $103.32M, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.83 million shares, and the average trade volume was 2.47 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
The stock’s 5-day price performance is 1.94%, and it has moved by -20.45% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -35.98%. The short interest in Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) is 3.83 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.01 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $1, which implies a decrease of -5.0% 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 premium of 4.76% off the target high and 4.76% 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 70.14% in 2025.
BW Dividends
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-May-12. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW)’s Major holders
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc insiders own 5.91% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 73.20%, with the float percentage being 77.80%. B. RILEY FINANCIAL, INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 118.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 27.45 million shares (or 30.1448% of all shares), a total value of $39.8 million in shares.
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 VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and NEUBERGER BERMAN EQUITY FUNDS-Neuberger Berman Intrinsic Value Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 1.84 shares. This amounts to just over 1.87 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $1.94 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.77, or about 1.80% of the stock, which is worth about $1.86 million.
