Warrior Met Coal Inc (HCC) saw an uptrend of 7.50% in the recent trading with $62.21 being its most recent. The current price level -17.22% lower than the highest price of $75.15 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 63.71% higher than the lowest price of $38.00 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on HCC appeared in (Insider Monkey) under the title “Warrior Met Coal (HCC) Expands Credit Line to Fuel Blue Creek Ramp-Up”.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 4 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.14 for the stock.
Warrior Met Coal Inc Earnings – What Happened With HCC
Coming around sales and income figures on HCC Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. Warrior Met Coal Inc (HCC) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 26.44% for net revenue.
HCC – Warrior Met Coal Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Warrior Met Coal Inc (NYSE:HCC)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.63 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. Warrior Met Coal Inc (HCC) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 9/30/2024, posting a surprise factor of 26.44% for net revenue. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.8.
Warrior Met Coal Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 52.57 million. HCC does have institutional investors; and they hold 108.85% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. was the top most holder in Warrior Met Coal Inc (NYSE:HCC) with an ownership of 7.35 million shares of the company or 14.0396 of the stake worth $461.09 million. The filing also reveals VANGUARD GROUP INC as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 11.3764 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $373.62 million for having 5.95 million shares in hand.
STATE STREET CORP also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 6.2031 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 355.0 institutions which have possession in HCC’s shares.
Key Metrics for HCC
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, Warrior Met Coal Inc has a debt to equity ratio of 0.11.
