British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -9.93% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $38.49.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $42.74, falling within a range of $38.46 and $39.24. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.286. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $42.74, and the low was $28.25. On the whole, BTI has fluctuated by 7.77% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of British American Tobacco Plc ADR currently standing at about $84.70 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.98, with its dividend yield at 7.75%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that BTI’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of BTI currently trading nearly -2.34% and 1.63% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 45.25, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.17% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.29%. Furthermore, British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI)’s beta value is 0.51, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.85.
A comparison of British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. BTI showed an intraday change of -9.93% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 24.46%%.
Data on historical trading for British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 4.41 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 4.06 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 2.22 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.07% of British American Tobacco Plc ADR’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 8.05% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 5.37 million shares as on 2025-01-31, resulting in a short ratio of 1.29. According to the data, the short interest in British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) stood at 35.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-31 reached 5.27 million. The stock has risen by 5.99% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the BTI stock heading into the next quarter.
