Peabody Energy Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:BTU)

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Peabody Energy in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" BTU shares.
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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Peabody Energy's shares. Their BTU share price targets range from $30.00 to $33.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $31.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 35.5% from the stock's current price.
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Peabody Energy's stock was trading at $26.42 at the start of the year. Since then, BTU shares have decreased by 11.5% and is now trading at $23.37.
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Peabody Energy saw a decrease in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 15,210,000 shares, a decrease of 16.4% from the October 15th total of 18,190,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,830,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.4 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 13th 2024.
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Peabody Energy Co. (NYSE:BTU) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 26th. The coal producer reported $0.80 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.16 by $0.36. The coal producer had revenue of $1.08 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.10 billion. Peabody Energy had a net margin of 22.47% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 28.76%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 19.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.78 EPS.

Peabody Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 8th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 9th will be given a dividend of $0.075 per share on Wednesday, November 29th. This represents a $0.30 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.28%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 8th.
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Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.22%. The dividend payout ratio is 3.96%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, BTU will have a dividend payout ratio of 8.00% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Peabody Energy declared that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Monday, April 17th 2023, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 26.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

73 employees have rated Peabody Energy Chief Executive Officer Glenn Kellow on Glassdoor.com. Glenn Kellow has an approval rating of 53% among the company's employees. This puts Glenn Kellow in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Peabody Energy's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Boston Partners (4.80%), Portman Square Capital LLP (0.00%), Gendell Jeffrey L (1.67%), Northern Trust Corp (1.46%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.33%) and Hosking Partners LLP (1.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Elliott Investment Management, Glenn L Kellow, Kemal Williamson, Marc E Hathhorn, Mark Spurbeck, Paul V Richard and Scott T Jarboe.
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