Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE:BTU) does about 3.29M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1551509 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 3.02B USD. Its current market price is $23.53, marking a decrease of -0.51% compared to the previous close of $23.65. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $27.24 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $17.71.
Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) has a 20-day trading average at $23.66 and the current price is -13.63% off the 52-week high compared with 32.86% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $24.36 and its 200-day simple moving average is $23.94. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.28%, which increases to 2.85% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 44.61 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $28.40, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 17.15% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on June 07, 2022 when Jefferies upgraded the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of between $25 and $36. The Benchmark Company also upgraded the stock to “Buy” from Hold on October 29, 2021 at a price target of $16. B. Riley Securities upgraded its price target at $15-$22.
Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) stock is down -1.59% over the week and -3.01% over the past month. Its price is -3.25% year-to-date and -1.22% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 17.15 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 19.40% and return on equity of 22.42%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 4.73 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 8.70. The beta has a value of 1.00. Price to book ratio is 0.85 and price to sales ratio is 0.62.
