Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU)

Peabody Energy Corporation is trading at $25.21, down 2.70% on the session. The 50 day average sits at $24.34 and the 200 day at $n/a, which puts the stock in a mixed technical position. RSI is at 61.2, which reads as strong, and MACD is bullish crossover. Volume is below average.

The nearest support is around $23.19 with resistance near $27.83, so that band frames the current range. Average daily movement is roughly $1.13, or about 4.5% of the share price, which is what any stop placement has to allow for. The overall health score of 60 out of 100 combines a trend score of 52, momentum of 81 and a risk score of 42.

Peabody Energy Corporation engages in the production of metallurgical and thermal coal. It operates through Seaborne Thermal, Seaborne Metallurgical, Powder River Basin, and Other U.S. Thermal segments. The company operates mines in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia and in Alabama and Wyoming in the United States; mining, preparation, and sale of thermal coal, sold primarily to electric utilities; surface mining extraction processes, coal with a lower sulfur content, and Btu; and mining sub-bituminous coal deposits. It also supplies coal primarily to electricity generators, industrial facilities, and steel manufacturers. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.