Peabody Energy Corporation

BTU Energy Thermal Coal

Peabody Energy Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.9 billion, down 8.86% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+8.32%
EPS
−221.7%
Free cash flow
−494.2%
Total debt
−12.1%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

16.11 0.09 +0.56%
Market cap
$2.0B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
−56.8×
Dividend yield
1.87%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
2.07
Beneish M
−2.71
Dividend safety
28/100

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Sold, $m 1.84
Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — 1 1 1 — 1 1 — — — — —
Insider Ownership 0.97%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 1,950.00
Revenue ttm 4,095.10
Net income ttm 41.40
Free cash flow ttm (238.10)
Net debt Q (137.70)
Valuation
P/E 0.00
Forward P/E (56.80) (negative: loss-making)
Price / sales 0.48
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 0.00
Price / book 0.60
Financial health
Current ratio Q 1.84 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt / equity Q 0.09 (at or below 0.5: strong)
Interest coverage Q (2.28)
Growth
Revenue growth Q +8.32% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q +47.91% (above 0%: growing)
EPS, this year −46.19% (below 0%: weak)
EPS, next year A +485.04% (at or above 15%: strong)
Revenue, next year A +9.75%
EPS, past 5 yrs —
EPS, next 5 yrs A +5.02%

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

P/S against its own 10 years 32.82%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 23.75%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 27.60%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Yield
1.87%
Annual rate
0.30
Payout ratio
—
Growth, 2018–25
−6.63%/yr
  1. 0.49 ’18
  2. 0.56 ’19 +15
  3. 0.00 ’20 −100
  4. 0.00 ’21
  5. 0.00 ’22
  6. 0.23 ’23
  7. 0.30 ’24 +33
  8. 0.30 ’25 +0
  9. 0.31 ’26e +2
paid forecast change on the year, % Powerpack

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 969 700 575 434
Receivables 390 359 315 384
Inventory 352 393 383 451
Other 309 328 285 356
2,020 1,781 1,559 1,625
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 966 812 827 835
ST’ Debt 14 16 15 49
Other — — — —
979 828 842 884

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales (3.66%) 6.03% (8.14%)
Cash Flow 0.00% 0.00% (34.24%)
Earnings 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value 16.90% 29.56% 2.83%

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (0.27) (0.74) (0.24) — —
’25 0.27 (0.23) (0.58) 0.09 (0.43)
’24 0.29 1.42 0.74 0.25 2.70
’23 1.68 1.15 0.82 1.33 5.00
’22 (0.88) 2.54 2.33 3.92 8.31
’21 (0.81) (0.28) (0.38) 3.93 3.22
’20 (1.33) (15.78) (0.69) (1.32) (19.14)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 973 1,003 1,096 — —
’25 937 890 1,012 1,022 3,862
’24 984 1,042 1,088 1,123 4,237
’23 1,364 1,269 1,079 1,235 4,947
’22 691 1,322 1,343 1,626 4,982
’21 651 723 679 1,265 3,318
’20 846 627 671 737 2,881
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 30 (1) (1) — —
’25 120 23 122 69 334
’24 119 8 360 120 607
’23 386 353 13 282 1,036
’22 (274) 283 495 670 1,174
’21 71 (94) 4 438 420
’20 (5) (48) 21 22 (10)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (87) (61) (68) — —
’25 18 (69) 17 (21) (55)
’24 53 (92) 269 (84) 146
’23 332 292 (52) 141 713
’22 (307) 267 462 568 990
’21 9 (125) (17) 395 262
’20 (37) (104) (22) (17) (180)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.3
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TTM Sep ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 4,715 5,579 5,582 4,623 2,881 3,318 4,982 4,947 4,237 3,862 4,095 (2.2%) 4,238 4,682 4,524 +5.4%
Gross margin, % 13.69 28.38 27.06 23.51 12.36 23.06 33.94 31.57 19.26 13.64 10.20 (0.1) pt
EBT (758) 93 664 (142) (1,852) 370 1,279 1,125 516 (33) (176) (29.3%)
EBT margin, % (16.08) 1.66 11.90 (3.08) (64.27) 11.16 25.66 22.74 12.18 (0.87) (4.30) +15.2 pt
Net income (721) 482 664 (185) (1,874) 371 1,319 816 404 (42) 41 (27.0%)
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 257.67 46.72 46.79 44.58 29.49 29.87 35.06 35.95 33.87 31.70 0.00 (20.8%)
Earnings (39.42) — 4.43 (2.04) (19.14) 3.22 8.31 5.00 2.70 (0.43) (1.50) (39.5%)
Cash flow 0.20 0.00 12.49 6.53 (0.10) 3.78 8.26 7.53 4.85 2.74 0.00 +33.6%
Capex 0.64 (1.19) (1.88) (2.46) (1.74) (1.42) (1.29) (2.34) (3.68) (3.19) 0.00 n/m
Free cash flow 0.84 (1.19) 10.61 4.07 (1.84) 2.36 6.97 5.18 1.17 (0.45) 0.00 n/m
Book value 9.92 30.62 28.93 25.77 10.04 16.39 23.19 26.22 29.65 29.41 0.00 +12.8%
Shares, m 18 119 119 104 98 111 142 138 125 122 122 +23.4%
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 3.87 6.71 0.00 0.00 4.09 3.17 4.90 7.32 0.00 0.00 3.0
P/S 0.11 0.84 0.65 0.20 0.08 0.34 0.72 0.68 0.62 0.94 0.48 0.5
P/B 1.71 1.53 1.05 0.35 0.24 0.61 1.08 0.93 0.71 1.01 0.60 0.9
EV/Sales 0.08 0.92 0.72 0.33 0.37 0.39 0.52 0.55 0.54 0.87 0.44 0.5
EV/FCF 0.54 (36.03) 3.18 3.61 (5.96) 4.97 2.62 3.82 15.52 (61.21) (7.65) (6.9)
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 4 0 1,490 677 (10) 420 1,174 1,036 607 334 96 +64.9%
Capex 12 (142) (224) (255) (170) (158) (184) (323) (460) (389) (334) n/m
Free cash flow 15 (142) 1,265 422 (180) 262 990 713 146 (55) (238) n/m
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 1,079 945 897 639 630 870 1,454 1,041 953 717 740 (4.4%)
Net debt (906) 409 385 579 839 184 (973) (635) (352) (239) (138) (13.8%)
Shareholders’ equity 182 3,656 3,452 2,673 981 1,821 3,295 3,608 3,709 3,582 3,247 +39.3%
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (6.42) 1.58 6.98 (3.03) (33.37) 7.49 24.56 13.13 6.23 (0.90) (2.62) +5.5 pt
ROIC 0.00 13.48 10.78 1.19 (59.35) 13.48 37.20 22.60 8.29 (1.50) (3.70) (1.5) pt
ROE (156.30) 9.69 16.67 (6.90) (102.38) 25.70 50.71 22.01 10.14 (1.45) (4.26) +154.9 pt
People
People Employees 6,700 7,100 7,400 6,600 4,600 4,900 5,500 5,400 5,600 5,400 — (2.4%)
Revenue/emp, $m 0.70 0.79 0.75 0.70 0.63 0.68 0.91 0.92 0.76 0.72 — +0.2%
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Sep 2026 · fundamentals updated 5 Nov 2026

Peabody Energy Corporation vs peers in Thermal Coal (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
CNR Core Natural Resources, Inc. $3.7B 47.6× 18.2× +14.22% (above 0%: growing) −70.49% (below 0%: shrinking) +106.40% (above 0%: growing) 17.28% 0.58% Compare
ARLP Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. $3.2B 12.1× 10.5× +0.75% (above 0%: growing) +32.61% (above 0%: growing) +21.12% (above 0%: growing) 36.75% 17.33% Compare
BTU Peabody Energy Corporation $2.0B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +8.32% (above 0%: growing) n/m −494.22% (below 0%: shrinking) 10.59% (3.87%)
NRP Natural Resource Partners LP $1.6B 15.3× — −10.24% (below 0%: shrinking) −15.15% (below 0%: shrinking) +4.75% (above 0%: growing) 100.00% 60.45% Compare
NC NACCO Industries, Inc. $251.2M 16.8× 3.8× +5.06% (above 0%: growing) −19.10% (below 0%: shrinking) −58.04% (below 0%: shrinking) 14.64% 11.50% Compare
Median of peers $2.4B 16.1× 10.5× +2.91% −17.12% +12.94% 27.02% 14.42%

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Ownership

Directors and executive officers, together less than 1%
BlackRock, Inc.55 East 15.70%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.100 Vanguard Blvd.Malvern, PA 12.10%
State Street CorporationOne Congress StreetBoston, MA 7.60%
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP6300 Bee Cave Road, Building OneAustin, TX 5.90%
Key Group Long Term Investments LP c/o Lennox Paton Corporate Services3 Bayside Executive ParkNassau, Bahamas 5.60%
Renaissance Technologies LLC800 Third AvenueNew York, NY 5.30%
Ownership is the proxy’s own table: the directors and officers as a group, and every holder of 5% or more. Read the proxy statement

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