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Warrior Met Coal, Inc.

$HCC·$5.6B·Coal·Energy
$108.26+2.9%1Y+83.6%
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HCHCC
$HCCWarrior Met Coal, Inc.
$108.26+2.89%45 posts
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Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $HCC, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Driven by hypeCooling offAI verdict · as of 2026-08-25

Catching its breath after a run — could pick back up or fade from here.

Coking-coal producer up 77% in twelve months — three insiders including CEO sold $6M last week, and GF Value calls it overvalued.

Warrior Met Coal is a pure-play metallurgical (coking) coal producer selling primarily to blast-furnace steel makers in Europe, South America, and Asia from two underground mines in Alabama. The stock is up 77% over the trailing year on coking-coal price recovery and steel-demand strength.

  • Q2 2026 revenue was $510M (up 71% year-over-year) with 32% gross margin and 19% operating margin — the topline is inflecting hard as coking-coal prices normalized
  • Q2 EPS of $1.65 beat $1.40 estimate by 17.9%; last four surprises: +18%, -3%, -29%, +236% — high variance reflecting coking-coal price sensitivity
  • Analyst 2026 revenue estimate is $2.0B on $6.03 EPS growing to $2.2B / $8.00 EPS in 2027 — the stock at $106.60 is 17.7x forward, expensive for a cyclical coal producer
  • Return on invested capital 8.1% and return on equity 10.0% — modest by cycle-peak standards
  • Free cash flow yield of 0.1% — near zero, reflecting heavy Blue Creek investment cycle absorbing all cash
  • Insider signal is materially negative last week: CEO Walter Scheller sold 50,000 shares at $105 for $5.25M on August 19; Director Stephen Williams sold 4,800 at $104.23 for $500K; Officer Brian Chopin sold 3,232 at $104.02 for $336K — $6.1M coordinated executive selling at the highs
  • Deutsche Bank added 131,115 shares (Aug 24) — offsetting institutional bid
  • Position in 52-week range is 92% — near the tape peak, insider selling adds risk
  • Beta 0.65 — cyclically muted despite the coal exposure

At $106 with insiders taking $6M off the top and cyclical coal at cycle-elevated prices, the risk-reward has compressed.

What to watch: The Q3 print on November 4 needs the earnings surprise cadence to hold — a fifth positive surprise combined with continued coking-coal price strength would confirm the setup, but the insider selling suggests near-term risk is elevated.

On the calendar: 2026-11-04 — Q3 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Mixed sentiment⚠7 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-27 · top-engagement diverged

Warrior Met Coal sentiment is genuinely divided. Bulls highlight Mohnish Pabrai's ~$57 avg cost basis implying a 19% normalized FCF yield at entry, HCC as one of the coal names making new highs this week, and HCC on next week's focus list (with HALO/SNOW/HNGE/OSCR/HOOD/TEM/RBRK/SHOP/FIGR). One thesis note argues 'AMR may be the better investment despite HCC being the better business' due to different share-count math. Bears flag $6.1M in HCC insider selling on Aug 19 (CEO Walter Scheller 50,000 shares at $105, plus Chopin and Williams). Net tone is real disagreement between long-term value bulls and near-term insider-selling bears; the modal stance is 'making new highs — cyclical coal demand from steel remains a supportive tailwind'.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Warrior Met Coal is a U.S. producer of metallurgical coal exported primarily to international steelmakers.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Coal sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $HCC.

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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
25.7How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
8.1%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
13.6%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
0.1%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
3.4Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
10.0%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
41.8%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.1Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Aug 5, 2026$1.65$1.40+17.9%
Q1 2026Apr 30, 2026$1.37$1.41-2.8%
Q4 2025Feb 12, 2026$0.44$0.62-29.0%
Q3 2025Nov 5, 2025$0.70$-0.51+236.3%
Next earningsWed, Nov 4·consensus EPS $1.39

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q2 FY26$509.7M+70.6%31.9%18.5%$1.65$103.4M
Q1 FY26$458.6M+53.8%98.2%17.3%$1.37$-91.9M
Q4 FY25$384.1M+29.1%13.8%9.1%$0.44$-18.1M
Q3 FY25$327.9M+0.0%11.3%6.1%$0.70$12.8M

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 5 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$2.0B$2.0B – $2.0B$6.03$5.01 – $7.054
FY27$2.2B$2.0B – $2.4B$8.00$4.25 – $11.754
FY28$2.3B$2.0B – $2.5B$9.04$3.83 – $14.235

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.9×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.95%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+23.5%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+22.6%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMid float · 51.7M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.1% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.655-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellAug 19Brian M ChopinCHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER3.2K sh$336KSellAug 19Walter J SchellerCEO50.0K sh$5.3MSellAug 19Stephen D. WilliamsDirector4.8K sh$500KSellJun 2Kelli K. GantSee remarks20.0K sh$2.2M
+ 10 other (5 exempts · 5 awards) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KOfficer or director changeApr 218-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
+ 14 other (6 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Warrior Met Coal CEO Sells 50,000 Shares for $5.5 Millionfool.com·1d ago131,115 Shares in Warrior Met Coal $HCC Acquired by Deutsche Bank AGdefenseworld.net·4d agoIs Warrior Met Coal Inc (HCC) Overvalued After 3.3% Rally? GF Value Says Overvaluedgurufocus.com·7d agoMohnish Pabrai's Top Q2 2026 Move: Trimming Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc at a -3.04% Portfolio Impactgurufocus.com·15d agoWarrior Met Coal Q2 Earnings Call Highlightsmarketbeat.com·20d ago

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