British American Tobacco Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for British American Tobacco in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" British American Tobacco stock.
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British American Tobacco saw a decrease in short interest in May. As of May 14th, there was short interest totaling 3,030,000 shares, a decrease of 52.3% from the April 29th total of 6,350,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,220,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.9 days.
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British American Tobacco's stock was trading at $37.26 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, BTI shares have increased by 7.6% and is now trading at $40.09.
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British American Tobacco declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 19th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 24th will be given a dividend of $0.7412 per share on Monday, February 14th. This represents a $2.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 7.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 22nd.
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British American Tobacco pays an annual dividend of $3.01 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 7.50%. BTI has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. British American Tobacco does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of British American Tobacco is 70.66%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, British American Tobacco will have a dividend payout ratio of 61.93% next year. This indicates that British American Tobacco will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of British American Tobacco split before market open on Tuesday, February 14th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, January 13th 2017. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, February 13th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of British American Tobacco stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

6 employees have rated British American Tobacco CEO Jack Bowles on Glassdoor.com. Jack Bowles has an approval rating of 66% among British American Tobacco's employees.

Some companies that are related to British American Tobacco include Philip Morris International (PM), Altria Group (MO), RLX Technology (RLX), Swedish Match AB (publ) (SWMAY), Vector Group (VGR), 22nd Century Group (XXII), BOTS (BTZI), Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIGQ) and White Fox Ventures (AWAW).
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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 a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Capital International Investors (0.40%), Newport Trust Co (0.16%), Federated Hermes Inc. (0.14%), Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership (0.13%), Northern Trust Corp (0.11%) and BlackRock Inc. (0.11%).

BTI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Franklin Resources Inc., Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc, Alliancebernstein L.P., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, UBS Group AG, Foyston Gordon & Payne Inc, and FDx Advisors Inc..

BTI stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership, Cullen Capital Management LLC, Millennium Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, Capital International Investors, Citigroup Inc., and Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC.

Shares of BTI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of BTI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $40.09.

British American Tobacco has a market capitalization of $91.81 billion and generates $33.10 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $8.22 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.26 on an earnings per share basis.

British American Tobacco employs 55,329 workers across the globe.

British American Tobacco was founded in 1902.

The official website for British American Tobacco is www.bat.com.

British American Tobacco is headquartered at GLOBE HOUSE 4 TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON X0, WC2R 2PG.

British American Tobacco's mailing address is GLOBE HOUSE 4 TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON X0, WC2R 2PG. The company can be reached via phone at 44-20-7845-1000 or via email at [email protected]