Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE: BTU) is the largest private-sector coal company in the world, and over the past year, one of the largest gainers in American markets.
Since June 2021, Peabody Energy stock’s one-year return has outperformed several of the world’s most popular tech, EV and consumer discretionary stocks: NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:NVDA), Ford Motor Company (NYSE: NYSE:F), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:SBUX), Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH).
Peabody Energy is in the coal mining business in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Australia, China, among other international locations.
Outside of mining, preparing and selling coal, Peabody Energy also engages in direct and brokered trading of coal and freight-related contracts, as well as provides transportation-related services which involve financial derivative contracts and physical contracts.
Peabody Energy was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
Here's how the returns break down from June 2021 to present:
- Ford is down from $14.77 to $11.32 for a return of -23.32%
- Nvidia is down from $186.57 to $159.24 for a return of -14.65%
- Starbucks is down from $111.39 to $71.17 for a return of -36.11%
- Tesla is up from $616.60 to $658.12 for a return of 6.73%
- Bitcoin is down from $38,094.70 to $20,828.10 for a return of -45.33%
- Ethereum is down from $2,373.86 to $1,097.81 for a return of -53.75%
- And finally, Peabody Energy is up from $7.70 to $22.18 for a return of 188.05%
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