Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE: BTU) is 9.95% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $20.21 and a high of $29.94 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The BTU stock was last observed hovering at around $27.05 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.31%.
Currently trading at $26.74, the stock is 1.36% and 5.82% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.28 million and changing -1.15% at the moment leaves the stock 11.88% off its SMA200. BTU registered 15.06% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 18.69%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $25.269 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $23.90145.
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The stock witnessed a 5.69% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 16.01%, and is -6.83% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.93% over the week and 3.39% over the month.
Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) has around 5400 employees, a market worth around $3.21B and $4.27B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 7.08 and Fwd P/E is 10.00. Profit margin for the company is 12.46%. Distance from 52-week low is 32.31% and -10.69% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (13.12%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -41.98% this year.
Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) Top Institutional Holders
367.0 institutions hold shares in Peabody Energy Corp (BTU), with institutional investors hold 95.19% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 128.70M, and float is at 120.70M with Short Float at 13.01%. Institutions hold 94.72% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 17.15 million shares valued at $379.34 million. The investor’s holdings represent 13.3873% of the BTU Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 14.07 million shares valued at $311.31 million to account for 10.9866 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP which holds 7.26 million shares representing 5.6637% and valued at over $160.48 million, while STATE STREET CORP holds 5.5359 of the shares totaling 7.09 million with a market value of $156.86 million.
Peabody Energy Corp (BTU) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Spurbeck Mark, the company’s EVP and CFO. SEC filings show that Spurbeck Mark sold 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 06 ’24 at a price of $29.52 per share for a total of $0.3 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 65710.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 27 ’24, Jarboe Scott T. (CAO and Corporate Secretary) disposed off 14,582 shares at an average price of $24.85 for $0.36 million. The insider now directly holds 66,133 shares of Peabody Energy Corp (BTU).
