Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE: BW): Think Like A Lender, Not An Investor

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (NYSE:BW) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.33M but it saw 2826134 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 27.88M USD, the company’s current market price of $0.32 came rising about 13.70 while comparing to the previous closing price of $0.28. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $2.99 and as low as $0.22. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $0.3084 while lowest mark touched by it was $0.3761.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (BW) gives us an average price of $0.4259, while its current price level is -89.23% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 43.73% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $0.8153 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $1.4959. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 19.53% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 21.70%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 32.20 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the DA Davidson which downgraded the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on April 07, 2025, recommending a price target of $1 for it. Craig Hallum downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Hold” from “Buy” on November 10, 2023 while assigning a price target range of $10-$2. Craig Hallum issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $11.

Over the week, BW’s stock price is moving -9.45% down while it is -64.68% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -80.36% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -65.29%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Mar-30, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.16 while estimate for next year EPS is -0.31. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $181.7M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $756.37M and seeing the company making $836.67M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $162.6M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 95.14M with 5.39% of that held by the insiders while 72.45% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -107.98%. Stock’s beta reads 1.96. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.04. Its return on asset (ROA) is -9.73% on average.