BTU Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Peabody Energy Common | NYSE:BTU)

Peabody Energy Corp is a producer of metallurgical and thermal coal. It also markets and brokers coal, both as principal and agent, and trades coal and freight-related contracts. The company operates in the following segment: Seaborne Thermal, Seaborne Metallurgical, Powder River Basin, Other U.S. Thermal and Corporate and Other. The Seaborne Thermal segment generates the majority of the revenue for the company. A substantial part of its overall revenue is generated from its customers in the United States, and rest from Japan, China, Australia, Taiwan, and other regions.

Peabody Energy Common trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BTU.

As of July 17, 2026, BTU stock price declined to $22.44 with 1,883,584 million shares trading.

BTU has a beta of -0.81, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BTU has a correlation of 0.03 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BTU has a market cap of $2.73 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Peabody Energy Common reported $973 million in Revenue and -$.27 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $15 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.34.

In the last 3 years, BTU traded as high as $41.14 and as low as $9.61.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BTU belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, XME, VTI, IWM, AVUV.

BTU has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +41.8% while the SPY ETF gained +19.5%. However, in the short term, BTU had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -12.2% vs +4.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, BTU shares have fared better than the market returning +0.6% compared to SPY -0.2%.

BTU support price is $21.97 and resistance is $23.28 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BTU shares will trade within this expected range on the day.