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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001064728-25-000014"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BTU"
cik: "0001064728"
company_name: "PEABODY ENERGY CORP"
filed_at: "2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T01:21:40.215708+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peabody Q4 net income $30.6M, down 84% YoY; announces transformative coking coal acquisition

## Summary
- Q4 2024 net income $30.6M ($0.25 EPS) vs $192.0M ($1.33 EPS) a year ago; revenue $4.24B full year vs $4.95B.
- Full-year adjusted EBITDA $871.7M, down from $1,363.9M; operating cash flow $613M.
- Acquired four premium hard coking coal mines in Australia's Bowen Basin; Centurion shipped first coal.
- Board declared $0.075 per share quarterly dividend payable March 11, 2025 to holders of record Feb 19.
- Returned $221M to shareholders in buybacks and dividends; cash at year-end $700M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001064728-25-000014
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BTU
- cik: 0001064728
- company_name: PEABODY ENERGY CORP
- filed_at: 2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472825000014/0001064728-25-000014-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472825000014/btu-20250206.htm

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