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 October 2, 2026, BTU stock price climbed to $24.81 with 1,120,065 million shares trading.

BTU has a beta of -0.97, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BTU has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BTU has a market cap of $3.02 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Peabody Energy Common reported $1 billion in Revenue and -$.74 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-14 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.45.

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, VB, IWM.

BTU has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -14.3% while the SPY ETF gained +16.1%. However, in the short term, BTU had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +11.6% vs +3.6% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, BTU shares have been beat by the market, returning -1.6% compared to an SPY return of +1.0%.

BTU support price is $23.86 and resistance is $25.62 (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.