Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $19.01, with 3.97 million shares of worth about $75.53 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -14.91% during that period and on January 08, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.45%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 121.40M shares, out of which, 120.67M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -9.22% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -15.06%. Year-to-date (YTD), BTU shares are showing a performance of -9.22% which decreased to -24.68% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $19.10 but also hit the highest price of $29.94 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Peabody Energy Corp shares is 2.51 million. The stock is currently trading -8.61% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -20.29% for SMA50 and it goes to -18.90% lower than SMA200.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE: BTU) currently have 121.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 93.78% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $2.31B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.97. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 5.04, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.77 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.75 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for BTU, volatility over the week remained 3.64% while standing at 3.29% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -43.29% while it is estimated to decrease by -15.12% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BMO Capital Markets on December 16, 2024 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $26 to it. Coverage by Jefferies stated Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on June 07, 2022, suggesting a price target of $36 for the stock. On October 29, 2021, The Benchmark Company Upgrade their recommendations, while on October 04, 2021, B. Riley Securities Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $22. Stock get a Hold rating from Vertical Research on August 07, 2020.
