How to buy Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises stock | 2.66

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc is an electrical equipment & parts business based in the US. Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares (BW) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises employs 2,400 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$663 million.

How to buy shares in Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises

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3. Search for Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: BW. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$2.66, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$2.66, which is 42.80% down on its pre-crash value of USD$4.65 and 245.45% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$0.77.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$202.23 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$592.44.

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises share price

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Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	USD$2.66
52-week range	USD$0.77 - USD$5.0051
50-day moving average	USD$2.4614
200-day moving average	USD$2.1644
Wall St. target price	USD$0.6
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-23.596

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Is it a good time to buy Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises stock?

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Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $2.66 from 2020-10-19

1 week (2020-10-15)	5.14%
1 month (2020-09-22)	12.24%
3 months (2020-07-22)	9.02%
6 months (2020-04-22)	189.13%

1 year (2019-10-22)	-41.15%
2 years (2018-10-22)	153.33%
3 years (2017-10-20)	-38.57%
5 years (2015-10-22)	-84.13%

Is Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises under- or over-valued?

Valuing Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's EBITDA

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$42.4 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises financials

Revenue TTM	USD$663 million
Operating margin TTM	3.81%
Gross profit TTM	USD$160.3 million
Return on assets TTM	2.34%
Return on equity TTM	0%
Profit margin	-14.21%
Book value	$-20.81
Market capitalisation	USD$135.3 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares

There are currently 432,472 Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares held short by investors – that's known as Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's "short interest". This figure is 9.9% down from 479,938 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares can be evaluated.

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares traded daily (recently around 153904.62633452). Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's SIR currently stands at 2.81. In other words for every 100,000 Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2810 shares are currently held short.

However Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares, or, against the total number of tradable Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0161% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares, roughly 16 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises.

Find out more about how you can short Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises stock.

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises share dividends

We're not expecting Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's shares ever split?

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 24 July 2019. So if you had owned 10 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares which in turn could have impacted Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's share price.

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.77 up to $5.0051. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's is 2.2333. This would suggest that Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises overview

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. provides fossil and renewable power generation and environmental equipment for the power and industrial markets worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Babcock & Wilcox; Vølund & Other Renewable; and SPIG. The Babcock & Wilcox segment engages in the engineering, procurement, specialty manufacturing, construction, and commissioning of new and retrofit utility boilers and industrial boilers fired with coal and natural gas; and boiler cleaning equipment and material handling equipment. This segments also provides air pollution control products and related equipment, such as wet and dry flue gas desulfurization systems, catalytic and non-catalytic nitrogen oxides reduction systems, low nitrogen oxides burners and overfire air systems, fabric filter baghouses, wet and dry electrostatic precipitators, mercury control systems, and dry sorbent injection for acid gas mitigation. In addition, it offers replacement parts, retrofit and upgrade projects, fuel switching and repowering contracts, and training programs; and field technical, construction and maintenance, start-up and commissioning, and plant operations and maintenance services. The Vølund & Other Renewable segment provides steam-generating systems; environmental and auxiliary equipment for the waste-to-energy and biomass power generation industries; and plant operations and maintenance services. The SPIG segment offers air-cooled (dry) cooling systems, mechanical draft wet cooling towers, and natural draft wet cooling hyperbolic towers; end-to-end aftermarket services, such as spare parts, upgrades and revamping of existing installations, and remote monitoring. Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Akron, Ohio.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.908% of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares are held by insiders and 74.251% by institutions.

• How many people work for Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises?

  Latest data suggests 2,400 work at Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises.

• When does the fiscal year end for Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises?

  Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises based?

  Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's address is: 1200 East Market Street, Akron, OH, United States, 44305

• What is Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's ISIN number?

  Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's international securities identification number is: US05614L1008

• What is Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's CUSIP number?

  Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 05614L100