What's priced into Warrior Met Coal, Inc.?
What do you have to believe to make money in Warrior Met Coal, Inc. at $108? The stock trades at 26.0x trailing earnings and its own trailing growth runs about 8% a year. The question is where do we go from here?
Growth down the side, exit multiple across the top, your five-year annualized return in each cell.
The expectations grid · 5-year annualized return
| EPS growth ↓ · Exit multiple → | 13.0x −50% | 19.5x −25% | 26.0x today | 32.5x +25% | 8.7x 5y median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| −4% (decline) | −16% | −9% | −4% | +0% | −23% |
| 0% (no growth) | −13% | −6% | +0% | +5% | −20% |
| 4% (half) | −9% | −2% | +4% | +9% | −16% |
| 8% (baseline 8%) | −6% | +2% | +8% | +13% | −13% |
| 10% (beat) | −4% | +4% | +10% | +15% | −12% |
| 12% (big beat) | −2% | +6% | +12% | +17% | −10% |
“Everyone reads Warrior Met as a bet on steelmaking coal prices. Coal prices went up 6% over the last year. Warrior's tonnage went up 65%.”
From our HCC write-up.
Read the HCC write-up →Method. Trailing diluted EPS of $4.16 (price $108.26 ÷ 26.0x trailing P/E; data from Financial Modeling Prep, August 28, 2026). Exit multiples are anchored to the stock itself: 50% and 25% below today's multiple, today's, 25% above, and its own five-fiscal-year median of 8.7x. Growth rows are anchored to the company’s own trailing growth: a decline at half the center rate, zero, half, the center, 25% above, and 50% above. Cell shading scales with the return, green positive, red negative. Each cell: EPS compounds at the row's rate for five years, the stock is valued at the column's multiple in year five, and the result is the annualized return against today's price. Dividends and buybacks excluded. An illustrative surface, not a forecast and not a call.