BTU Stock — Peabody Energy Corporation

Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU)

Updated October 16, 2026.

BTU is a Stock. its distribution rate is 1.26%, its trailing-12-month yield is 1.26%. Dividend Vision Distribution Safety Score™ is 37/100 (Elevated risk). Total return is -10.6% over the past 9.5 years, 286.5 points behind SPY at 275.9%.

Peabody Energy Corporation is a coal mining company that produces and sells metallurgical and thermal coal through operations in Australia and the United States. The company supplies coal to electric utilities, steel manufacturers, and industrial facilities across multiple segments including seaborne thermal and metallurgical coal operations as well as U.S.-based mines in the Powder River Basin, Alabama, and Wyoming. It offers a modest current distribution rate paid quarterly.

BTU performance versus SPY

Price and return data through 2026-10-16.

Total return is -10.6% over the past 9.5 years, 286.5 points behind SPY at 275.9%. Over the past year its total return — price change plus distributions reinvested — is -27.1%. Its deepest 1-year drawdown was 47.1%.

BTU key facts

Distribution Safety Score™

37 · Elevated risk

Safety-Adjusted Yield

0.47%

Asset type

Stock

Asset class

Equity

Inception date

04/03/2017

Distribution rate

1.26%

Distribution frequency

Quarterly

Trailing yield

1.26%

Last close

$23.89 (as of 2026-10-16)

Market cap

$2,912,191,000

Average volume

1730161.0

Dividend

$0.075

Ex-dividend date

08/12/2026

Payment date

09/03/2026

Beta

0.316

Payout ratio

28.6%

Forward P/E

19.1205

EPS

$-1.49

How Dividend Vision calculates yield and returns

Distribution rate (1.26%) uses calculation basis unavailable. Issuer rates can use a different denominator and date, including ex-date NAV. Trailing-12-month yield (1.26%) is the sum of split-adjusted cash distributions with ex-dates in the last 12 months, divided by the published price. It lags a recent raise or cut. Total return uses split-adjusted close with distributions reinvested on the ex-dividend date (a modeling convention, not the cash-settlement date) from the first stored bar on or after inception through the latest bar, compared with the same window on the benchmark. That is the security's total return, not your personal gain/loss.

Yield and safety methodology · Distribution rate methodology · Distribution Safety Score methodology

Sources and review

Primary sources: prices and distributions from Dividend Vision, derived from vendor EOD data.

Reviewed by Bert Sweet, CEO and Co-owner of Dividend Vision. Methodology: Distribution Safety Score.

BTU risks and drawbacks

BTU's current distribution rate is moderate, not a high-yield payout — the strategy is dividend quality more than maximum income. Payments are quarterly, so cash flow is lumpy versus a monthly fund. Total return has trailed SPY over the available window. The deepest 1-year drawdown on record here is 47.1%.

Who may consider BTU — and who may not

It is a weaker fit for investors who need monthly cash flow (BTU pays quarterly); investors hunting double-digit covered-call yields; investors whose main goal is matching SPY total return. This is educational context, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

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