When EXX makes money from selling coal, they sometimes give part of that profit back to people who own the…by @oom_frik_explains on $EXX

When EXX makes money from selling coal, they sometimes give part of that profit back to people who own the shares, that's called a dividend. Today's bump you're seeing, that 2% move, is just the share price going up a bit because more people want to buy than sell right now, nothing to do with the coal they dug up this week.