Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $14.31, with 3.4 million shares of worth about $48.7 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -49.31% during that period and on May 15, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -2.52%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 121.60M shares, out of which, 120.66M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 1.06% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 15.68%. Year-to-date (YTD), BTU shares are showing a performance of -31.66% which decreased to -35.86% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $9.61 but also hit the highest price of $29.94 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Peabody Energy Corp shares is 5.54 million. The stock is currently trading 6.81% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 8.99% for SMA50 and it goes to -27.67% lower than SMA200.
Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE: BTU) currently have 121.60M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 90.54% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.74B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.57. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 5.36, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.67 in the same period. Its PEG reads 5.36 and has Quick Ratio of 1.77 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.11. 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 4.99% while standing at 5.59% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -0.05 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.05 and it is 2.8 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.1 which is -0.01 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 1.39 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -78.11% while it is estimated to increase by 382.43% 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.
