NYSE:BTUPeabody Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Peabody Energy's stock was trading at $2.85 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BTU shares have increased by 1.1% and is now trading at $2.88. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Peabody Energy in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Peabody Energy.

Peabody Energy is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Peabody Energy.

Peabody Energy Co. (NYSE:BTU) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April, 29th. The coal producer reported ($1.33) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($1.01) by $0.32. The coal producer earned $846.20 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $856.98 million. Peabody Energy had a negative return on equity of 6.69% and a negative net margin of 11.03%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 32.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.15 earnings per share. View Peabody Energy's earnings history.

Peabody Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 16th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, October 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.145 per share on Friday, November 29th. This represents a $0.58 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 20.14%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 29th. View Peabody Energy's dividend history.

7 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Peabody Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $4.00 to $30.00. On average, they anticipate Peabody Energy's share price to reach $14.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 386.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Peabody Energy.

Media stories about BTU stock have been trending very negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Peabody Energy earned a media sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the coal producer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news about Peabody Energy.

Peabody Energy saw a increase in short interest in June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 8,150,000 shares, an increase of 23.5% from the May 31st total of 6,600,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,690,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.0 days. Approximately 8.5% of the company's stock are short sold. View Peabody Energy's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Peabody Energy include Arch Coal (ARCH), Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP), Natural Resource Partners (NRP), Contura Energy (CNTE), Rhino Resource Partners (RHNO), Westmoreland Resource Partners (WMLPQ), Cloud Peak Energy (CLDPQ) and Puda Coal (PUDA). View all competitors.

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Peabody Energy trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BTU."

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One share of BTU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2.88.

Peabody Energy has a market capitalization of $281.38 million and generates $4.62 billion in revenue each year. The coal producer earns $-211,300,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.54 on an earnings per share basis. Peabody Energy employs 6,600 workers across the globe.

The official website for Peabody Energy is www.peabodyenergy.com.

Peabody Energy's mailing address is 701 MARKET ST, ST LOUIS MO, 63101. The coal producer can be reached via phone at 314-342-3400 or via email at [email protected]