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Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises BW

US equityMarket cap rank #3374Specialty Industrial Machinery

$5.64 −$0.27 (-4.57%)

Pre-market · Oct 8, 8:20 am ET · After hours $5.70 +1.06%

Open$5.60

Prev close$5.91

Day range$5.45 – $5.72

Volume6.88M

Market cap$840.16M

P/E (TTM)–

Dividend yield–

Ownership & positioning

Who holds it, who is betting against it, and where the big money is moving

Institutional ownership88.9%-0.47 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding229-3 vs. prior quarter

Insider trades (recent)33 buys / 17 sellsNet buying

Short interest16.17% of floatDays to cover 5.4 · as of 15 Sep 2026

Short-sale volume share15.2%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: −$7.23M (5 inflow days, 15 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

Super/Big orders approximate institutional-size trades; Mid/Small approximate retail-size trades. Net buy minus sell value in each bucket, summed over the window.

The five largest holders on file together own 44.9% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

BRC Group Holdings, Inc.18.42%
Hood River Capital Management LLC9.19%
BlackRock7.62%
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC5.14%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC4.56%
Tontine Management, LLC3.45%
Bruce Galloway2.85%
Marshall Wace LLP2.63%

By investor type

Mutual Fund51.70%
Public Company20.54%
Hedge Fund14.26%
Individual/Insider6.20%
Private Company1.61%
Government Pension Fund0.31%
Family Office/Trust0.25%
Insurance Company0.24%

Reported short interest has risen from 9.19% to 16.17% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Recent institutional activity

Holder	Type	Period	Share change	New stake
BlackRock	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+9,732,099	7.6%
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+4,055,825	5.1%
State Street Global Advisors	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+2,547,578	2.0%
Geode Capital Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+2,258,458	2.2%
Value Aligned Research Advisors, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+2,238,024	1.5%
Hood River Capital Management LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+2,085,991	9.2%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,794,617	4.6%
Voya Investment Management LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,318,145	0.9%
Wellington Management Group	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,295,031	0.9%
Allspring Global Investments, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,244,215	0.8%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,183,890	2.0%
Cooper Creek Partners Management LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+1,159,715	1.5%
Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,035,029	0.7%
Northern Trust Global Investments	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+913,821	0.7%
Equitec Group, LLC	Private Company	2026/Q3	+697,221	0.5%

Institutional buy/sell activity by reporting period, largest moves first.

Insider transactions

Date	Insider	Title	Transaction	Shares	Price	Held after
17 Aug 2026	Alan Howe	Lead Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+165,994	–	251,600
17 Aug 2026	Alan Howe	Lead Independent Director	Other Disposition	-165,994	–	251,600
12 Aug 2026	Philip Moeller	Independent Director	Open Market Acquisition	+5,000	$9.50	240,809
11 Aug 2026	Kenneth Young	Chairperson & CEO	Open Market Acquisition	+7,000	$9.65	1,982,021
11 Aug 2026	John Dziewisz	Executive VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary	Intent to Sell (Form 144)	-410,862	$9.71	–
9 Aug 2026	John Dziewisz	Executive VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary	Intent to Sell (Form 144)	-5,963	$9.47	–
6 Aug 2026	Cameron Frymyer	Chief Financial Officer	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-17,096	$9.38	373,081
6 Aug 2026	Cameron Frymyer	Chief Financial Officer	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+21,237	$9.38	373,081
6 Aug 2026	Kenneth Young	Chairperson & CEO	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-45,925	$10.14	1,975,021
6 Aug 2026	Kenneth Young	Chairperson & CEO	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+45,742	$10.14	1,975,021
5 Aug 2026	Kenneth Young	Chairperson & CEO	Other Derivative Acquisition	+125,000	–	125,000
5 Aug 2026	Cameron Frymyer	Chief Financial Officer	Other Derivative Acquisition	+100,000	–	100,000
4 Aug 2026	Cameron Frymyer	Chief Financial Officer	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-22,299	$10.14	351,844
4 Aug 2026	Cameron Frymyer	Chief Financial Officer	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+27,701	$10.14	351,844
28 May 2026	John Dziewisz	Executive VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-96,285	$19.18	416,769
28 May 2026	John Dziewisz	Executive VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary	Other Derivative Acquisition	+50,000	–	50,000
28 May 2026	John Dziewisz	Executive VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+122,049	$19.18	416,769
14 May 2026	Joseph Tato	Independent Director	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-46,750	$21.22	207,338
14 May 2026	Joseph Tato	Independent Director	Other Derivative Acquisition	+8,725	–	8,725
14 May 2026	Joseph Tato	Independent Director	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+38,250	$21.22	207,338

From Form 4/Form 144 filings. Negative share counts are disposals (sales, gifts, or shares withheld for taxes); positive are acquisitions.

Short interest, by report

Report date	Shares short	% of float	Days to cover
15 Sep 2026	24,086,463	16.2%	5.4
31 Aug 2026	21,422,635	14.4%	4.6
14 Aug 2026	18,464,901	12.4%	2.9
31 Jul 2026	15,864,323	10.7%	4.7
15 Jul 2026	15,246,166	10.2%	4.0
30 Jun 2026	13,679,394	9.2%	2.7

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