British American Tobacco Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for British American Tobacco in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" British American Tobacco stock.
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British American Tobacco saw a decline in short interest in April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,530,000 shares, a decline of 29.6% from the March 31st total of 9,280,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,920,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.2 days. Approximately 0.3% of the company's stock are short sold.
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British American Tobacco's stock was trading at $37.26 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, BTI shares have increased by 6.9% and is now trading at $39.82.
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British American Tobacco declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 19th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.7412 per share on Monday, February 14th. This represents a $2.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 7.45%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 22nd.
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British American Tobacco pays an annual dividend of $2.96 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 7.72%. 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 strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of British American Tobacco is 71.67%. 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 65.05% 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 on the morning of Tuesday, February 14th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Friday, January 13th 2017. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes 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), Swedish Match AB (publ) (SWMAY), Vector Group (VGR), BOTS (BTZI), White Fox Ventures (AWAW) and Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIGQ).
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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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Newport Trust Co (0.16%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.06%), Natixis Advisors L.P. (0.03%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (0.02%), Todd Asset Management LLC (0.01%) and Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.01%).

BTI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., FDx Advisors Inc., Todd Asset Management LLC, DAVENPORT & Co LLC, Viking Fund Management LLC, M&T Bank Corp, Waverton Investment Management Ltd, and Meritage Portfolio Management.

BTI stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Hennessy Advisors Inc., Natixis Advisors L.P., Concorde Asset Management LLC, Lester Murray Antman dba SimplyRich, Sterling Investment Management Inc., and Newport Trust Co.

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 $39.82.

British American Tobacco has a market capitalization of $91.19 billion and generates $33.04 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $7.28 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.13 on an earnings per share basis.

British American Tobacco employs 56,689 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]