British American Tobacco - BTI Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for British American Tobacco in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" BTI shares.
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British American Tobacco's stock was trading at $37.41 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BTI stock has increased by 8.0% and is now trading at $40.42.
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British American Tobacco saw a decline in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,410,000 shares, a decline of 16.9% from the July 15th total of 2,900,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,930,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.8 days.
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British American Tobacco announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 16th. Investors of record on Friday, December 23rd will be given a dividend of $0.7354 per share on Monday, February 6th. This represents a $2.94 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 7.28%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 22nd.
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British American Tobacco (NYSE:BTI) pays an annual dividend of $2.94 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 7.27%. BTI has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer.
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Shares of British American Tobacco split on the morning of Tuesday, February 14th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, January 13th 2017. The newly created shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, February 13th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

British American Tobacco updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $32.95 billion-$33.60 billion.

6 employees have rated British American Tobacco Chief Executive Officer Jack Bowles on Glassdoor.com. Jack Bowles has an approval rating of 66% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other British American Tobacco investors own include Altria Group (MO), British American Tobacco (BATS), AT&T (T), Philip Morris International (PM), Verizon Communications (VZ), Pfizer (PFE), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), AbbVie (ABBV), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) and CVS Health (CVS).

British American Tobacco trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BTI."

British American Tobacco's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.18%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.17%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.10%), Northern Trust Corp (0.08%), Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (0.07%) and Cullen Capital Management LLC (0.06%).

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One share of BTI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.42.

British American Tobacco (NYSE:BTI) has a market capitalization of $92.65 billion and generates $35.32 billion in revenue each year.

The company employs 52,050 workers across the globe.

British American Tobacco was founded in 1902.

British American Tobacco's mailing address is GLOBE HOUSE 4 TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON X0, WC2R 2PG. The official website for the company is www.bat.com. The company can be reached via phone at 442078451000, via email at ir@bat.com, or via fax at 44-20-7240-0555.