By Linda Martinez

September 17, 2018 - News headlines about Cloud Peak Energy (NYSE:CLD) have been trending somewhat positive on Saturday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Cloud Peak Energy earned a daily sentiment score of 0.08 on Accern’s scale. Accern also gave media coverage about the mining company an impact score of 46.551192594227 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company’s share price in the next several days.

Shares of CLD stock traded down $0.02 on Friday, hitting $2.17. The stock had a trading volume of 472,970 shares, compared to its average volume of 376,143. The company has a market cap of $169.74 million, a P/E ratio of -5.05 and a beta of 1.95. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.42, a current ratio of 1.86 and a quick ratio of 1.29. Cloud Peak Energy has a 12-month low of $2.16 and a 12-month high of $5.70.

Cloud Peak Energy (NYSE:CLD) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 26th. The mining company reported ($0.39) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.14) by ($0.25). Cloud Peak Energy had a negative return on equity of 4.68% and a negative net margin of 1.94%. The company had revenue of $205.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $230.72 million. During the same quarter last year, the business posted ($0.09) EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was down 10.3% on a year-over-year basis. research analysts expect that Cloud Peak Energy will post -0.58 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Several research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Jefferies Financial Group set a $3.00 target price on shares of Cloud Peak Energy and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, July 30th. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Cloud Peak Energy from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $4.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, July 3rd. BMO Capital Markets dropped their price objective on shares of Cloud Peak Energy from $4.00 to $3.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, July 27th. ValuEngine lowered shares of Cloud Peak Energy from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 24th. Finally, Clarkson Capital lowered shares of Cloud Peak Energy from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 24th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the company. Cloud Peak Energy has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $3.60.