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How to buy Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises stock (BW)

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Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises is a specialty industrial machinery 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 2,200 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $965.7 million.

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Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises stock price (NYSE: BW)

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Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares at a glance

Information last updated 2024-07-21.
Latest market close$1.57
52-week range$0.75 - $6.09
50-day moving average $1.45
200-day moving average $1.54
Wall St. target price$4.63
PE ratio N/A
Dividend yield N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM) $-1.09

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Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $1.57 from 2024-07-25

1 week (2024-07-19) -1.26%
1 month (2024-06-27) 1.95%
3 months (2024-04-26) 50.96%
6 months (2024-01-26) 13.77%
1 year (2023-07-27) -70.71%
2 years (2022-07-27) -78.52%
3 years (2021-07-27) 6.76
5 years (2019-07-26) 3.66

Is Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises stock undervalued or overvalued?

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 $11.5 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 $965.7 million
Operating margin TTM 2.92%
Gross profit TTM $185.6 million
Return on assets TTM -0.63%
Return on equity TTM -346.51%
Profit margin -20.87%
Book value $-2.49
Market Capitalization $141.3 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

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 23 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 $0.753 up to $6.085. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

BW.US volatility(beta: 1.71)Avg. volatility(beta: 1.00)LowHigh

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 1.712. This would suggest that Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises overview

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, provides energy and emissions control solutions to industrial, electrical utility, municipal, and other customers worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Babcock & Wilcox Renewable; Babcock & Wilcox Environmental; and Babcock & Wilcox Thermal. The Babcock & Wilcox Renewable segment offers technologies divert the waste from landfills for power generation and replacing fossil fuels and recovering metals and reducing emissions. It offers BrightLoop, a hydrogen generation technology that generates hydrogen from a range of fuels, including solid fuels, such as biomass and coal. This segment also provides technologies for power and heat generation comprising waste-to-energy; OxyBright, an oxygen-fired biomass-to-energy technology; and black liquor systems for the pulp and paper industry. The Babcock & Wilcox Environmental segment offers a range of emissions control and environmental technology solutions for utility, waste to energy, biomass, carbon black, and industrial steam generation applications.

Frequently asked questions

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What percentage of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 5.863% of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares are held by insiders and 80.731% by institutions.
How many people work for Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises?
Latest data suggests 2,200 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: US05614L2097
What is Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's CUSIP number?
Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 05614L209

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