NYSE:BTUPeabody Energy Stock Price, Forecast & News

Peabody Energy's stock was trading at $2.85 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BTU stock has increased by 16.8% and is now trading at $3.33. 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) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 29th. The coal producer reported ($1.33) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($1.01) by $0.32. The coal producer earned $846.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $856.98 million. Peabody Energy had a negative return on equity of 6.69% and a negative net margin of 11.03%. Peabody Energy's quarterly revenue was down 32.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.15 EPS. View Peabody Energy's earnings history.

Peabody Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 16th. Investors of record on Wednesday, October 30th will be given a dividend of $0.145 per share on Friday, November 29th. This represents a $0.58 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 17.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 29th. View Peabody Energy's dividend history.

7 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Peabody Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $4.00 to $30.00. On average, they expect Peabody Energy's stock price to reach $14.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 320.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Peabody Energy.

Headlines about BTU stock have trended negative on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Peabody Energy earned a media sentiment score of -2.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the coal producer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutPeabody Energy.

Peabody Energy saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,370,000 shares, an increase of 29.7% from the April 30th total of 4,910,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,550,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 6.6% of the shares of the 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), Cloud Peak Energy (CLDPQ), Westmoreland Resource Partners (WMLPQ) 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."

Peabody Energy's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (4.99%), State Street Corp (3.76%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.45%), APG Asset Management N.V. (1.23%), APG Asset Management N.V. (1.23%) and APG Asset Management N.V. (1.23%). Company insiders that own Peabody Energy stock include A Verona Dorch, Amy B Schwetz, Charles F Meintjes, George John Schuller Jr, Glenn L Kellow, International LP Elliott, Marc E Hathhorn, Paul V Richard and Scott T Jarboe. View institutional ownership trends for Peabody Energy.

BTU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Russell Investments Group Ltd., Two Sigma Investments LP, State Street Corp, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Tudor Investment Corp Et Al, Jane Street Group LLC, and Maverick Capital Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold Peabody Energy company stock in the last year include A Verona Dorch, Charles F Meintjes, Glenn L Kellow, Marc E Hathhorn, Paul V Richard, and Scott T Jarboe. View insider buying and selling activity for Peabody Energy.

BTU stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., Federated Hermes Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Voloridge Investment Management LLC, Two Sigma Advisers LP, and BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA. View insider buying and selling activity for Peabody Energy.

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One share of BTU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $3.33.

Peabody Energy has a market capitalization of $325.34 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]