Is the business good?
How good a business is BTU?
Peabody Energy Corporation earns −5.8% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
−5.8%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 15 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −5.6%
Operating margin · Energy median 17% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +0.25%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −60% |
| FY2021 | 13% |
| FY2022 | 28% |
| FY2023 | 22% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | −2.1% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −5.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.01B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −5.8%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.