British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE: BTI) is -1.43% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $28.25 and a high of $39.54 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The BTI stock was last observed hovering at around $35.72 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.08%.
Currently trading at $35.80, the stock is -1.84% and -2.25% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 5.84 million and changing 0.22% at the moment leaves the stock 4.69% off its SMA200. BTI registered 18.78% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 11.39%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $36.6082 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $34.16935.
The stock witnessed a -4.69% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 0.99%, and is -2.66% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.84% over the week and 1.26% over the month.
British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) has around 52000 employees, a market worth around $78.85B and $32.95B in sales. Fwd P/E is 7.49. Profit margin for the company is -52.61%. Distance from 52-week low is 26.73% and -9.46% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (-15.77%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -2.67% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -4.20% year-over-year.
707.0 institutions hold shares in British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI), with institutional investors hold 9.30% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 2.22B, and float is at 2.20B with Short Float at 0.24%. Institutions hold 9.27% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS with over 26.39 million shares valued at $818.22 million. The investor’s holdings represent 1.184 of the BTI Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 20.05 million shares valued at $620.1 million to account for 0.8994 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS which holds 15.32 million shares representing 0.6874 and valued at over $473.89 million, while ORBIS ALLAN GRAY LTD holds 0.5556 of the shares totaling 12.38 million with a market value of $383.04 million.
