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

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. Its last market close was $1.61 – a decrease of 13.44% over the previous week. Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises employs 2,200 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $878.2 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

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-19.

Latest market close	$1.61
52-week range	$0.75 - $2.99
50-day moving average more info button	$2.21
200-day moving average more info button	$1.54
Wall St. target price	$4.63
PE ratio more info button	N/A
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$-0.79

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Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $1.61 from 2024-12-20

1 week (2024-12-13)	-13.44%
1 month (2024-11-22)	-15.26%
3 months (2024-09-20)	13.38%
6 months (2024-06-21)	1.61

1 year (2023-12-22)	11.81%
2 years (2022-12-22)	-67.93%
3 years (2021-12-22)	8.87
5 years (2019-12-20)	3.19

Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises financials

Revenue TTM	$878.2 million
Operating margin TTM	2.56%
Gross profit TTM	$185.6 million
Return on assets TTM	-1.55%
Return on equity TTM	-346.51%
Profit margin	-6.79%
Book value	$-2.21
Market Capitalization more info button	$149 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 $2.99. 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 Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises's is 1.727. 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 5.73% of Babcock-and-Wilcox Enterprises shares are held by insiders and 73.12% 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