Baytex Energy Corp (NYSE:BTE) price on Thursday, May 01, rose 5.19% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $1.62.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $1.54, moving within a range at $1.5395 and $1.66. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.874 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 7.56. Turning to its 52-week performance, $3.84 and $1.36 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, BTE moved -27.35% over the past month.
Baytex Energy Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $1.25 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Mar-03. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.06, with its dividend yield at 3.97%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 927.1M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 927.1M and 927.1M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -5.80% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 3.41B, representing a -18.88% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that BTE is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
2 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend BTE as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
BTE’s current price about -2.14% and -17.88% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 41.09, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.10% and 9.07% in the 30-day chart. Further, Baytex Energy Corp (BTE) has a beta value of 0.97, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.12.
If we refocus on Baytex Energy Corp (NYSE:BTE), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 38.62 over the past 10 days and 41.20 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 773.59 million shares.
The 13.51% of Baytex Energy Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 26.85% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 49.02 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 1.44. Current price change has pushed the stock -37.21% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the BTE stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
