In the latest trading session,, 0.67 million Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.72. With the company’s most recent per share price at $1.06 changing hands around $0.02 or 1.54% at last look, the market valuation stands at $103.91M. BW’s current price is a discount, trading about -182.08% off its 52-week high of $2.99. The share price had its 52-week low at $0.22, which suggests the last value was 79.25% up since then. When we look at Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 0.97 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 2.28 million.
Analysts gave the Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.33. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 1 recommended BW as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) trade information
Instantly BW is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 2.52%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -40.00%, with the 5-day performance at 2.52% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) is 12.01% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 3.83 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.01 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 1, meaning bulls need a downside of -6.0% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, BW’s forecast low is 1 with 1 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a 5.66% surge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 5.66% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 17.83%. The 2025 estimates are for Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc earnings to increase by 70.14%.
BW Dividends
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-May-12.
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 5.91% of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc shares while 73.20% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 77.80%. There are 73.20% institutions holding the Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc stock share, with B. RILEY FINANCIAL, INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 30.1448% of the shares, roughly 27.45 million BW shares worth $39.8 million.
NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.6481% or 6.05 million shares worth $8.78 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and NEUBERGER BERMAN EQUITY FUNDS-Neuberger Berman Intrinsic Value Fund . With 1.84 shares estimated at $1.96 million under it, the former controlled 1.87% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, NEUBERGER BERMAN EQUITY FUNDS-Neuberger Berman Intrinsic Value Fund held about 1.80% of the shares, roughly 1.77 shares worth around $1.89 million.
