British American Tobacco (BTI) Competitors

British American Tobacco (NYSE:BTI) and RLX Technology (NYSE:RLX) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, BTI or RLX?

British American Tobacco has higher revenue and earnings than RLX Technology. British American Tobacco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLX Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
British American Tobacco	$25.87B	3.55	$3.92B	$4.87	9.13
RLX Technology	$2.68B	1.16	$75.26M	$0.06	33.00

Is BTI or RLX a better dividend stock?

British American Tobacco pays an annual dividend of $2.95 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. RLX Technology pays an annual dividend of $0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. British American Tobacco pays out 60.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RLX Technology pays out 16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Which has more risk and volatility, BTI or RLX?

British American Tobacco has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RLX Technology has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of BTI or RLX?

16.2% of British American Tobacco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.7% of RLX Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of British American Tobacco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 53.4% of RLX Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media favor BTI or RLX?

In the previous week, RLX Technology had 4 more articles in the media than British American Tobacco. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for RLX Technology and 11 mentions for British American Tobacco. British American Tobacco's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat RLX Technology's score of 0.42 indicating that British American Tobacco is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
British American Tobacco	9 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
RLX Technology	5 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is BTI or RLX more profitable?

RLX Technology has a net margin of 15.70% compared to British American Tobacco's net margin of 0.00%. RLX Technology's return on equity of 2.48% beat British American Tobacco's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
British American Tobacco	N/A	N/A	N/A
RLX Technology	15.70%	2.48%	2.37%

Do analysts rate BTI or RLX?

British American Tobacco presently has a consensus price target of $33.00, suggesting a potential downside of 25.74%. RLX Technology has a consensus price target of $2.25, suggesting a potential upside of 13.64%. Given RLX Technology's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RLX Technology is more favorable than British American Tobacco.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
British American Tobacco	1 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
RLX Technology	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor BTI or RLX?

British American Tobacco received 309 more outperform votes than RLX Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.84% of users gave British American Tobacco an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave RLX Technology an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
British American Tobacco	Outperform Votes 319 64.84%	Underperform Votes 173 35.16%
RLX Technology	Outperform Votes 10 35.71%	Underperform Votes 18 64.29%

Summary

British American Tobacco beats RLX Technology on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.