St. Louis, Missouri, US-based Peabody Energy, the world's largest private-sector coal company, has reported that in the second quarter of 2012 the company's EBITDA was $453.4 million, decreasing by 24.3 percent from the second quarter of 2011. Additionally, the company's revenues rose slightly year on year to $2 billion in the second quarter. Meanwhile, sales volumes of 57.4 million mt in the period in question were slightly below sales of 57.8 million mt in the same period of the previous year.
Peabody Energy stated that its total sales target for 2012 was 230-250 million mt, including Australian sales of 31-34 million mt and sales of 185-195 million mt from the United States.