September 16, 2018 - Media stories about Warrior Met Coal (NYSE:HCC) have been trending somewhat positive on Saturday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Warrior Met Coal earned a coverage optimism score of 0.24 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave media headlines about the company an impact score of 45.0990268586668 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company’s share price in the next several days.

A number of analysts have weighed in on HCC shares. Royal Bank of Canada set a $34.00 target price on Warrior Met Coal and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 2nd. ValuEngine downgraded Warrior Met Coal from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Monday, July 30th. Citigroup increased their price target on Warrior Met Coal from $25.87 to $33.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 11th. Zacks Investment Research raised Warrior Met Coal from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $31.00 price target on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, July 25th. Finally, Morgan Stanley increased their price target on Warrior Met Coal from $25.00 to $27.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Friday, June 29th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have given a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the stock. Warrior Met Coal has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $29.78.

Warrior Met Coal stock traded up $0.75 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $26.48. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,128,923 shares, compared to its average volume of 696,033. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.48, a quick ratio of 2.02 and a current ratio of 2.53. Warrior Met Coal has a 52-week low of $18.56 and a 52-week high of $33.72. The stock has a market cap of $1.33 billion, a PE ratio of 3.36 and a beta of 0.56.

Warrior Met Coal (NYSE:HCC) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 1st. The company reported $1.81 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.95 by ($0.14). Warrior Met Coal had a net margin of 37.56% and a return on equity of 82.44%. The business had revenue of $322.56 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $331.76 million. The company’s revenue was down 11.2% compared to the same quarter last year. sell-side analysts predict that Warrior Met Coal will post 7.87 EPS for the current fiscal year.