Peabody Energy (BTU) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Peabody Energy in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" BTU shares.
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3 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Peabody Energy's stock. Their BTU share price targets range from $30.00 to $33.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $31.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 30.2% from the stock's current price.
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Peabody Energy's stock was trading at $26.42 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BTU stock has decreased by 7.9% and is now trading at $24.32.
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Peabody Energy saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totaling 16,200,000 shares, an increase of 11.0% from the November 30th total of 14,600,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,820,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.7 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 data on Thursday, October, 26th. The coal producer reported $0.80 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.16 by $0.36. The coal producer earned $1.08 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.10 billion. Peabody Energy had a net margin of 22.47% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 28.76%. Peabody Energy's revenue for the quarter was down 19.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.78 earnings per share.

Peabody Energy announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 8th. Investors 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.23%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 1.23%. 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 7.73% 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 approved a share buyback plan on Monday, April 17th 2023, which permits the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 26.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are 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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