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Energy · ·
$4.84
▼ $0.01 (-0.2%)
Market data updated: 09/20 06:11 AM
News analyzed: 09/20/2026
Market Cap
$3.71B
Day Range
$4.79 - $4.89
52-Week Range
$2.18 - $5.36
Beta
—
Next Earnings
05.11.2026
Support
$3.96
Resistance
$5.20
BTE is a stock from the Energy sector — Oil, gas, and renewable energy — highly volatile profitability, dependent on global commodity prices.
+94.4% (1Y)
🟡 Moderate
Strengths: 4/12 factors positiveRisk: High
This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer
Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
Overall Score
🟡 Mixed
Technical Trend
🟡 Mixed
Computed directly from the same signals behind the score above — not AI-generated.
Biggest positive driver
Price vs. SMA 50
Price is above the 50-day average
Technical
Biggest negative driver
Calmar Ratio (return vs. drawdown)
Calmar: 0.07 (3y annualized return 4.8% / max drawdown 67.8%)
Risk
What to watch next
When today echoes the past.
NO RELIABLE ECHO FOUND
Only 2 historical analog(s) found after removing overlapping dates — too few for a statistically meaningful comparison.
Historical matches considered: 2
TIME ECHO identifies historical situations that resemble the current market state. Historical outcomes are not guarantees of future performance. Similarity does not imply causation, and results may change as new data becomes available.
Baytex Energy (BTE) exhibits a robust overall investor score of 87, driven primarily by strong technical indicators and overwhelmingly positive news sentiment. The technical category scores exceptionally high at 91, reflecting a bullish momentum profile: the stock price remains above both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, the MACD histogram confirms an upward trend, and the RSI (58.9) indicates healthy positive momentum, though the %K (54.9) suggests a neutral short-term bias. Meanwhile, the news category achieves a perfect score of 100, underscored by multiple recent upgrades, positive performance comparisons to peers, and strategic initiatives like asset sales and share buybacks, all of which reinforce investor confidence. However, the risk category drags the score down to 42, with a notably high maximum drawdown of 67.8% over three years and a relatively modest ATR (3.3%), signaling volatility risk that could disrupt short-term stability. The combination of technical strength and positive news mitigates some risk concerns, but the volatility profile remains a critical consideration for risk-averse investors.
The stock price is consistently above both the 50-day and 200-day moving averages, the MACD histogram shows upward momentum, and the RSI (58.9) reflects healthy positive momentum, though the %K (54.9) remains neutral.
This technical alignment suggests a strong bullish trend with sustained upward momentum, which is typically favorable for investors seeking growth.
Recent news includes multiple positive analyst upgrades, performance outpacing peers, and strategic corporate actions like asset sales and buybacks, all contributing to a highly positive narrative.
Positive news sentiment often correlates with sustained investor interest and potential price appreciation, reinforcing the stock’s attractiveness.
The stock exhibits a high maximum drawdown of 67.8% over three years and a relatively low ATR (3.3%), indicating significant volatility and potential for sharp declines.
High volatility and drawdown risk can introduce uncertainty, particularly for investors sensitive to price fluctuations or seeking stability.
StockIQ conclusion
Baytex Energy (BTE) demonstrates a compelling combination of technical strength and positive news sentiment, supported by relative outperformance and strategic corporate actions. However, the stock’s high volatility and significant historical drawdowns introduce notable risk, particularly for investors focused on stability. The overall score reflects a balanced profile where growth potential is offset by inherent volatility, making it suitable for investors with a higher risk tolerance or a longer time horizon.
Written automatically from the computed data shown on this page only — not investment advice.
🗓️ What Changed This Week
🌱 Building History
We don't have a real data point from a week ago for this stock yet. The weekly comparison will appear once enough history has accumulated.
📊 Score History
65
Today
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90D
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🕰️ Signal Timeline
What StockIQ actually saw for this stock, and what happened after each signal — real data, not a forecast.
2d ago · $4.85
Evidence: StockIQ Score dropped from 84 to 70 over the last 14 days
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
2d ago · $4.85
Evidence: -5.6pp vs. sector average today
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
2d ago · $4.85
Evidence: 9 bullish / 1 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
3d ago · $4.89
Evidence: 9 bullish / 1 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
3d ago · $4.89
Evidence: -3.8pp vs. sector average today
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
3d ago · $4.91
Evidence: -5.2pp vs. sector average today
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
3d ago · $4.98
Evidence: -3.9pp vs. sector average today
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
3d ago · $5.17
Evidence: 8 bullish / 1 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
4d ago · $5.03
Evidence: 8 bullish / 1 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
8d ago · $5.04
Evidence: 9 bullish / 1 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
9d ago · $5.04
Evidence: המניה במגמת עלייה ברורה ללא טווח מסחר מוגדר בטווח הזמן שנבדק.
What happened after
Still awaiting outcome
9d ago · $5.00
Evidence: -112.7pp vs. sector average today
What happened after
9d ago · $4.99
Evidence: 9 bullish / 0 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
10d ago · $4.89
Evidence: 11 bullish / 0 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
11d ago · $4.89
Evidence: +3.0pp vs. sector average today
What happened after
11d ago · $4.99
Evidence: attention score 70/100
What happened after
11d ago · $4.86
Evidence: המניה במגמת עלייה ברורה ללא טווח מסחר מוגדר בטווח הזמן שנבדק.
What happened after
11d ago · $4.86
Evidence: 10 bullish / 0 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
12d ago · $4.86
Evidence: המניה במגמת עלייה ברורה ללא טווח מסחר מוגדר בטווח הזמן שנבדק.
What happened after
12d ago · $4.86
Evidence: 10 bullish / 0 bearish technical signals agreeing
What happened after
🐂🐻 Investment Thesis
🐂 Bull Case
🐻 Bear Case
🔍 What Could Prove This Wrong
This isn't a price-direction forecast — just a synthesis of real, already-computed data, and future conditions that could change the picture.
🕰️ StockIQ Time Machine
What did StockIQ know — and when? Pick a date from the real accumulated history.
As of August 26, 2026
Then
82
$4.61
Now
65
$4.84
What happened since
Signals detected by this date
No signals detected by this date
🧬 STOCK DNA
This stock's profile across 8 real dimensions — a research tool, not a recommendation
Growth
No data available
Quality
No data available
Value
No data available
Momentum
55
Risk
42
Sentiment
100
Fundamental
No data available
Institutional
No data available
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Recent media coverage of Baytex Energy Corp (BTE) has focused on its strong financial performance and strategic shifts. The company reported robust Q2 2026 results, including higher revenue and net income, along with an upgraded production guidance of 71,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) for 2026. Baytex also highlighted plans for significant share buybacks and expansion in the Duvernay region following the sale of its Eagle Ford assets. Analysts noted its outperformance relative to peers and positive outlook amid favorable commodity prices.
AI summary based on English-language news sources only — not investment advice.
Everyone's writing about Baytex Energy Corp Common. News trend score: 100. Reason: 13 of the last 20 articles are positive, versus 2 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
🌡️ Emotional Temperature
27
🎯 Conviction (vs. Emotion)
50
Psychology
31
Fundamentals
—
Technical
55
Valuation
—
Extreme momentum, price far above its moving average, and a large premium over fair value.
The stock is moving in lockstep with its peers at the same intensity, rather than on its own data.
Price, volume, and sentiment accelerating together — a sign investors are chasing the price, not just following it.
A sharp drop, unusual volume, and negative news sentiment all at once — selling pressure that looks emotional.
The price rise has far outpaced the actual improvement in fundamental data.
Price (3M)
+22%
Market Narrative
60
Fundamental Reality
50
Narrative Gap
+10
🔀 Psychology Acceleration
News attention/sentiment is running well ahead of the price move itself.
🧠 StockIQ Psychologist
The market behavior for BTE suggests a **balanced tension between FOMO and euphoria**, with both scores elevated (30 and 24, respectively) on the back of strong momentum, elevated volume, and extreme positive sentiment. The narrative gap (16) hints at a disconnect where optimism may outpace objective fundamentals, but technicals like RSI (61) and Bollinger %B (0.72) indicate caution is still present. The dominant psychological state is ambiguous, but the lack of volatility (0.99x ATR) and absence of panic signals suggests traders are cautiously optimistic rather than reckless. The key open question: *Will euphoria sustain momentum, or will traders take profits near resistance?*
Updated: 09/09/2026, 02:59 PM
What could change this?
👥 What the crowd believes
"raised its 2026 production guidance to about 71,000 boe/d with a Q4 exit rate target of roughly 72,000 boe/d"
"repurchased about 59,500,000 shares for C$322.2 million under its ongoing buyback program"
"Is Baytex Energy (BTE) Stock Outpacing Its Oils-Energy Peers This Year?"
"Baytex Energy shares trade at CA$6.39 after a 124.75% one-year total shareholder return that coincides with stronger recent earnings"
🧠 Market Brain events driving this
📈 18D Investor Psychology
Signal classification confidence: Medium (confidence in the behavioral read, not a price prediction). Describes observable market behavior, not what any individual investor thinks, and is not a buy/sell signal.
🏛️ Investor DNA — Historical Investors
A Historical Strategy Simulation: assuming each investor follows their documented principles, how would they rate this stock today? This is not a prediction of what they would actually do.
🟢 Best match
Samuel Armstrong Nelson — 75/100
🔴 Weakest match
Morgan Housel — 18/100
🗣️ Why do they disagree?
Based on the documented principles, the model estimates that Smith’s method cannot form a view because of missing dividend and growth data, while Nelson’s cycle‑position metric sees a favorable, near‑oversold stance. Mackay detects emerging crowd excitement, contrasting with the largely neutral or data‑deficient verdicts from Graham, Fisher, Lynch, Bagehot and Veblen, which all score around the midpoint. The efficient‑market view finds only a weak case for out‑performing the index, and Livermore’s trend rule flags a negative trend, leading to lower scores. Loeb, Marks (both cycle and overall), Schwager, and Housel each highlight risk, valuation concerns, lack of setup, or volatility, driving their scores toward the lower end of the range.
Edgar Lawrence Smith
Common Stocks as Long-Term Investments (1924)
🟢 100
Not enough dividend/growth data for a real Smith read
Key question
Is this a stock I'd be happy to hold and forget about for a decade?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 25%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Samuel Armstrong Nelson
The ABC of Stock Speculation (1903)
🟢 75
Cycle position looks favorable — closer to oversold than overbought
Key question
Is the price overextended, or is there still room to move?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
🟡 55
Some signs of crowd excitement building
Key question
Am I being swept along with the crowd, or thinking for myself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis (1934) / The Intelligent Investor (1949)
🟡 50
Not enough balance-sheet/valuation data for a real Graham read
Key question
Where is my margin of safety?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 0%
Philip Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958)
🟡 50
Not enough fundamentals data for a real Fisher read
Key question
How exceptional is this business, really?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 0%
Peter Lynch
One Up on Wall Street (1989)
🟡 50
Not enough growth data for a real Lynch read
Key question
Is the growth worth the price?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 0%
Walter Bagehot
Lombard Street (1873)
🟡 50
Not enough balance-sheet data for a real Bagehot read
Key question
Does this company have enough liquidity to survive real stress?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 0%
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)
🟡 50
Mixed signal on whether growth translates to real profit
Key question
Is management building real value, or just building itself?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 30%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham (Enterprising Investor)
The Intelligent Investor (1949) — the Enterprising Investor chapters
🟡 50
Not enough valuation data for a real Enterprising-Graham read
Key question
Is the stock statistically cheap enough to justify the extra risk?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 0%
Burton Malkiel & John Bogle
A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973) / The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007)
🟡 48
Mixed case — the evidence for picking this stock over an index is not strong
Key question
Do I actually have an edge here, or do I just think I do?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jesse Livermore
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) / How to Trade in Stocks (1940)
🟡 44
Negative trend — against Livermore's core rule of trading with the trend
Key question
What is the price telling me right now?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks (Market Cycle)
Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟡 44
Somewhere in the middle of the cycle
Key question
Where are we in the cycle right now — near a hot extreme, or a cold one?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Gerald M. Loeb
The Battle for Investment Survival (1935)
🟡 37
Risk profile Loeb would flag as a real threat to capital
Key question
How much capital could I lose here if I'm wrong?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing (2011) / Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🔴 34
Risk/valuation combination Marks would flag as a caution sign
Key question
What is the market probably misunderstanding about the risk here?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jack Schwager
Market Wizards (1989)
🔴 34
No real setup here — the discipline Schwager's wizards shared would say stay out
Key question
What's the risk/reward here, and where is my exit point?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money (2020)
🔴 18
The kind of volatility that tends to shake patient holders out
Key question
Could I live with this volatility long enough for compounding to actually work?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 30%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Based on the last 281 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🟡 Indicators are mixed — no clear bias (4 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 neutral)
A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.
The stock is in a clear uptrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.
Low confidence
The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.
Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.
| Ex-Dividend Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 15.9.2026 | $0.016 |
| 15.6.2026 | $0.016 |
| 14.6.2026 | $0.016 |
| 13.3.2026 | $0.016 |
| 12.3.2026 | $0.016 |
| 13.6.2025 | $0.017 |
| 12.6.2025 | $0.017 |
| 14.3.2025 | $0.016 |
| 13.3.2025 | $0.016 |
| 13.12.2024 | $0.016 |
| 12.12.2024 | $0.016 |
| 16.9.2024 | $0.017 |
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 13 positive, 5 neutral, 2 negative out of the last 20 articles.
Benzinga · 16.9.2026
Yahoo · 8.9.2026
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Motley Fool · 8.8.2026
SeekingAlpha · 3.8.2026
Yahoo · 2.8.2026
Simply Wall St. · 1.8.2026
Yahoo · 1.8.2026
Simply Wall St. · 1.8.2026
Yahoo · 31.7.2026
GuruFocus.com · 31.7.2026
Yahoo · 31.7.2026
Yahoo · 31.7.2026
StockIQ doesn't currently have enough real data to compute a reliable score for Baytex Energy Corp Common (BTE) — only 3 of 7 categories are available right now. Rather than show a misleading number, this page shows which data is missing instead.
StockIQ doesn't give buy/sell recommendations — and for BTE specifically, there currently isn't enough real data (only 3 of 7 categories available) to state even a factual score reliably. Check back once more data is available.
BTE's technical score is 55/100, which currently reads as neutral — based on real price/volume signals (moving averages, RSI, MACD, and more), not a prediction of what happens next.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Price is above the 50-day average; Price is above the 200-day average; RSI 51.8 — healthy positive momentum.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Calmar: 0.07 (3y annualized return 4.8% / max drawdown 67.8%); MACD histogram is negative — falling momentum; Price is below the SAR point — downtrend.
Yes — BTE has a real recorded dividend payment history on StockIQ. See the Dividends section on this page for the actual per-share amounts and dates.
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 0 sales out of the last 0 filings.
No recent insider transaction filings found for this stock.
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
20,677,105 shares short as of 2026-08-31 · vs. 24,804,129 on 2026-07-31
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
45.1% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 58.5% the prior week
Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.
Full breakdown of every data type and its source: Data Sources · Methodology