Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $16.35, with 8.13 million shares of worth about $133.0 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -23.56% during that period and on February 06, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -9.07%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 121.40M shares, out of which, 120.57M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -10.90% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -16.15%. Year-to-date (YTD), BTU shares are showing a performance of -21.92% which decreased to -37.28% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $17.10 but also hit the highest price of $29.94 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Peabody Energy Corp shares is 2.84 million. The stock is currently trading -11.57% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -20.67% for SMA50 and it goes to -28.72% lower than SMA200.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE: BTU) currently have 121.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 93.77% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.99B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.90. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 4.33, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.77 in the same period. Its PEG reads 18.05 and 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 4.55% while standing at 4.09% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -22.37% while it is estimated to increase by 72.59% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 0.24% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 2.45% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
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.
