secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     PEABODY ENERGY CORP (BTU)
CIK:        0001064728
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-02-06T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001064728-25-000014
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472825000014/0001064728-25-000014-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472825000014/btu-20250206.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001064728-25-000014

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