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 decreased by 5.3% and is now trading at $2.70. 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) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 29th. The coal producer reported ($1.33) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($1.01) by $0.32. The coal producer had revenue of $846.20 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $856.98 million. Peabody Energy had a negative return on equity of 6.69% and a negative net margin of 11.03%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 32.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.15 earnings per share. View Peabody Energy's earnings history.

Peabody Energy declared 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 yield of 21.48%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 29th. View Peabody Energy's dividend history.

7 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Peabody Energy's shares. Their forecasts range from $4.00 to $30.00. On average, they anticipate Peabody Energy's stock price to reach $14.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 418.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Peabody Energy.

Press coverage about BTU stock has been trending neutral recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Peabody Energy earned a daily sentiment score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the coal producer a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news about Peabody Energy.

Peabody Energy saw a decline in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 7,390,000 shares, a decline of 9.3% from the June 15th total of 8,150,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,660,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.8 days. Approximately 7.7% 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), 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 $2.70.

Peabody Energy has a market capitalization of $263.79 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]