Ramaco Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ:METC) Announces Quarterly Dividend of $0.07

Ramaco Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ:METC) announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 17th, RTT News reports. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 30th will be paid a dividend of 0.0688 per share by the energy company on Friday, June 13th. This represents a $0.28 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.97%.

Ramaco Resources has a dividend payout ratio of 31.6% indicating that its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Equities analysts expect Ramaco Resources to earn $0.49 per share next year, which means the company may not be able to cover its $0.55 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 112.2%.

Ramaco Resources Stock Down 3.2 %

Shares of NASDAQ METC opened at $9.25 on Tuesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.35, a quick ratio of 0.86 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The stock has a market capitalization of $485.89 million, a PE ratio of 14.23 and a beta of 1.17. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $9.59 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $10.64. Ramaco Resources has a 12-month low of $8.17 and a 12-month high of $17.23.

Ramaco Resources (NASDAQ:METC) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, March 10th. The energy company reported $0.06 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.42 by ($0.36). The business had revenue of $170.90 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $166.59 million. Ramaco Resources had a return on equity of 10.17% and a net margin of 5.35%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 15.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.24 EPS. As a group, analysts expect that Ramaco Resources will post 0.05 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

METC has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Ramaco Resources in a research report on Wednesday, March 12th. Jefferies Financial Group lowered their price objective on Ramaco Resources from $19.00 to $13.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, January 6th.

About Ramaco Resources

Ramaco Resources, Inc engages in the development, operation, and sale of metallurgical coal. Its development portfolio includes the Elk Creek project that covers an area of approximately 20,200 acres located in southern West Virginia; the Berwind property covering an area of approximately 62,500 acres situated on the border of West Virginia and Virginia; the Knox Creek property, which covers an area of approximately 64,050 acres is located in Virginia; the Maben property covering an area of approximately 28,000 acres situated in southwestern Pennsylvania southern West Virginia; and the Brook Mine property that covers an area of approximately 16,000 acres located in northeastern Wyoming.