How to buy Warrior Met Coal stock | 18.36

Warrior Met Coal, Inc is a coking coal business based in the US. Warrior Met Coal shares (HCC) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Warrior Met Coal employs 1,417 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$882.8 million.

How to buy shares in Warrior Met Coal

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Warrior Met Coal. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: HCC. 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 Warrior Met Coal 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$18.36, 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 Warrior Met Coal, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Warrior Met Coal. 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 Warrior Met Coal's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Warrior Met Coal's share price has had significant positive movement.

Its last market close was USD$18.36, which is 1.85% up on its pre-crash value of USD$18.02 and 91.45% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$9.59.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Warrior Met Coal shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$591.01 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$954.35.

Warrior Met Coal share price

Use our graph to track the performance of HCC stocks over time.

Warrior Met Coal shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-21.

Latest market close	USD$18.36
52-week range	USD$9.4601 - USD$23.73
50-day moving average	USD$17.1523
200-day moving average	USD$15.1547
Wall St. target price	USD$21.88
PE ratio	9.9608
Dividend yield	USD$0.2 (1.31%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.521

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Warrior Met Coal price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $18.36 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-17)	1.16%
1 month (2020-10-23)	23.06%
3 months (2020-08-25)	21.51%
6 months (2020-05-23)	N/A

1 year (2019-11-25)	-7.74%
2 years (2018-11-23)	-17.26%
3 years (2017-11-24)	-10.61%
5 years (2015-11-23)	N/A

Is Warrior Met Coal under- or over-valued?

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

Warrior Met Coal's P/E ratio

Warrior Met Coal's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 10x. In other words, Warrior Met Coal shares trade at around 10x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Warrior Met Coal's EBITDA

Warrior Met Coal's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$207.1 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Warrior Met Coal's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Warrior Met Coal financials

Revenue TTM	USD$882.8 million
Operating margin TTM	11.76%
Gross profit TTM	USD$517.7 million
Return on assets TTM	4.83%
Return on equity TTM	10.51%
Profit margin	8.85%
Book value	$15.141
Market capitalisation	USD$747.7 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Warrior Met Coal shares

There are currently 3.8 million Warrior Met Coal shares held short by investors – that's known as Warrior Met Coal's "short interest". This figure is 16.8% down from 4.6 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Warrior Met Coal shares can be evaluated.

Warrior Met Coal's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Warrior Met Coal's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Warrior Met Coal shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Warrior Met Coal shares traded daily (recently around 622425.81168831). Warrior Met Coal's SIR currently stands at 6.16. In other words for every 100,000 Warrior Met Coal shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6160 shares are currently held short.

However Warrior Met Coal's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Warrior Met Coal shares, or, against the total number of tradable Warrior Met Coal shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Warrior Met Coal's short interest could be expressed as 0.07% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Warrior Met Coal shares in existence, roughly 70 shares are currently held short) or 0.1013% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Warrior Met Coal shares, roughly 101 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Warrior Met Coal.

Find out more about how you can short Warrior Met Coal stock.

Warrior Met Coal share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 16.26% of net profits

Recently Warrior Met Coal has paid out, on average, around 16.26% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.31% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Warrior Met Coal shareholders could enjoy a 1.31% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Warrior Met Coal's case, that would currently equate to about $0.2 per share.

While Warrior Met Coal's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Warrior Met Coal is investing more in its future growth.

Warrior Met Coal's most recent dividend payout was on 13 August 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 6 August 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Warrior Met Coal share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Warrior Met Coal's shares have ranged in value from as little as $9.4601 up to $23.73. 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 Warrior Met Coal's is 1.1936. This would suggest that Warrior Met Coal's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Warrior Met Coal overview

Warrior Met Coal, Inc. produces and exports metallurgical coal for the steel industry. It operates two underground mines located in Alabama. The company sells its metallurgical coal to a customer base of blast furnace steel producers located primarily in Europe, South America, and Asia. It also sells natural gas, which is extracted as a byproduct from coal production. Warrior Met Coal, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Brookwood, Alabama.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Warrior Met Coal is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.403% of Warrior Met Coal shares are held by insiders and 111.068% by institutions.

• How many people work for Warrior Met Coal?

  Latest data suggests 1,417 work at Warrior Met Coal.

• When does the fiscal year end for Warrior Met Coal?

  Warrior Met Coal's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Warrior Met Coal based?

  Warrior Met Coal's address is: 16243 Highway 216, Brookwood, AL, United States, 35444

• What is Warrior Met Coal's ISIN number?

  Warrior Met Coal's international securities identification number is: US93627C1018

• What is Warrior Met Coal's CUSIP number?

  Warrior Met Coal's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 93627C101