British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) price on current trading day, rose 0.14% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $41.68.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $41.62, moving within a range at $41.48 and $41.7898. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.286. Turning to its 52-week performance, $41.63 and $28.25 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, BTI moved 13.32% over the past month.
British American Tobacco Plc ADR’s market cap currently stands at around $91.72 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 2.98, with its dividend yield at 7.15%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 26.15B, representing a -4.15% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that BTI is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
2 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend BTI as a Buy and 1 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Strong Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
BTI’s current price about 8.97% and 10.93% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 81.25, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.01% and 1.42% in the 30-day chart. Further, British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) has a beta value of 0.51, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.58.
If we refocus on British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.2 over the past 10 days and 3.92 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 2.22 billion shares.
The 0.00% of British American Tobacco Plc ADR’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 10.94% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 5.04 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 1.41. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) stood at 33.000002 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 6.73 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 14.76% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the BTI stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
