With 3.29 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 5.42 million shares. The 52-week range on BTU shows that it touched its highest point at $29.94 and its lowest point at $9.61 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $19.75. With its current market cap of 1.60 billion, BTU has annualized dividend of $0.30 while the current yield stands at 2.28%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.53.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of BTU was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -9.07%, but this was up by 2.50% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 2.02% while six-month performance fell -45.86%. The stock lost -44.65% in the past year, while it has lost -37.30% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for BTU yields 2.67 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.88. For the next quarter, that number is 0.00. This implies an EPS growth rate of -78.11% for this year and 382.43% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 121.60 million BTU shares are outstanding with a float of 120.56 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for BTU since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.8553 being high and $2.76926 being low. For BTU, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.81127. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.23 and the low estimate is $0.05. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.14.
