Peabody Energy

This weekend's Barron's cover story is the first part of the 2017 Barron's Roundtable coverage. Other featured articles offer a look at how Barron's stock picks for 2016 fared and a checklist for investing in the Trump era. The prospects for a bankrupt coal miner and a...

Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE: BTU) announced Wednesday morning it has voluntarily filed petitions under Chapter 11 for the majority of its U.S. entities in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Peabody Energy stated that through the process, it intends to reduce its overall debt load, lower fixed...

Shares of the beaten-up coal player Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE: BTU) gave up a large chunk of last week's gains Monday. Peabody's stock price rose from around $7.44 at the close on December 21 to $9.62 on Christmas Eve, December 24. Most traders attributed the rebound from 52-week...

On Monday, U.S. president Barack Obama announced what he called the "single most important step America has taken in the fight against global climate change." He introduced the nation's first-ever limits on carbon emissions by power plants. The plan will aim for a 32 percent...

U.S. stocks declined and erased Monday's gains following reports that Russian troops were lining on the borders of Ukraine and preparing for an invasion, according to comments made by Poland's Foreign Minister. “Unfortunately, Russia has restored its combat readiness on the...

The winner, by more than a country mile, is... Amazon! (NASDAQ: AMZN). The online retailing colossus sports the highest price-to-earnings ratio among stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index: a whopping 462 times its trailing 12-month earnings. Amazon's P/E ratio, based on Wednesday's...

Dom Einhorn, Founder of Born2Invest, likes to say that you should always be paid to own an investment. For stocks, that means that it must pay a dividend. When owning equities such as Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), and Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) long term investors profit from...

The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...

Among the leading coal-related stocks, Alliance Holdings (NASDAQ: AHGP), Rhino Resource Partners (NYSE: RNO) and SunCoke Energy (NYSE: SXC) saw the most significant swings in short interest between the December 13 and December 31 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Alpha Natural...

The short interest in leading coal-related stocks largely grew between the November 15 and November 29 settlement dates, with Walter Energy (NYSE: WLT) showing the most significant percentage upswing. The number of shares sold short in Alliance Resource Partners, Alpha Natural Resources, Cloud...

Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) and Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI) were among the few that bucked the trend toward declining short interest in leading coal-related stocks between the October 15 and October 31 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ: ARLP...

Rising short interest in James River Coal (NASDAQ: JRCC), Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Yanzhou Coal Mining (NYSE: YZC) bucked the trend among leading coal-related stocks between the September 13 and September 30 settlement dates. Short sellers shied away from Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ:...

Rising short interest in CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX), Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Rhino Resource Partners (NYSE: RNO) bucked the trend among leading coal-related stocks between the August 30 and September 13 settlement dates. Short sellers shied away from Alliance Resource Partners (NASDAQ: ARLP...