In the latest trading session, 0.81 million British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.40. With the company’s most recent per share price at $41.22 changed hands at -$0.04 or -0.11% at last look, the market valuation stands at $90.53B. BTI’s current price is a discount, trading about -3.69% off its 52-week high of $42.74. The share price had its 52-week low at $28.25, which suggests the last value was 31.47% up since then. When we look at British American Tobacco Plc ADR’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 5.12 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 4.50 million.
Analysts gave the British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Strong Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 3.25. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 1 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 0 recommended BTI as a Hold, 1 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. British American Tobacco Plc ADR’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.
British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) trade information
Instantly BTI was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action -0.35%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 13.48%, with the 5-day performance at -0.35% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) is 8.06% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 7.58 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.6 days.
British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 0.69% up from the last financial year. Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of -11.33%. The 2025 estimates are for British American Tobacco Plc ADR earnings to increase by 0.16%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 3.95% per year.
BTI Dividends
British American Tobacco Plc ADR is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in April. The 7.23% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 2.98. It is important to note, however, that the 7.23% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 7.85 per year.
British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.27% of British American Tobacco Plc ADR shares while 9.55% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 9.57%. There are 9.55% institutions holding the British American Tobacco Plc ADR stock share, with CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 1.1824% of the shares, roughly 26.39 million BTI shares worth $818.22 million.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 0.8994% or 20.05 million shares worth $620.1 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were Washington Mutual Investors Fund and American Mutual Fund Inc. With 22.55 shares estimated at $930.97 million under it, the former controlled 1.02% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, American Mutual Fund Inc held about 0.73% of the shares, roughly 16.12 shares worth around $665.8 million.
