British American Tobacco
About: The second-largest tobacco company by volume, British American Tobacco sold 505 billion cigarettes in 2024. Its leading brands are Dunhill, Kent, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike, and Rothmans in cigarettes. Its ownership of the Camel, Natural American Spirit, and Newport brands are limited to the us. In next-generation products, the company has the Vuse brand in vaping, Glo in heated tobacco, and Velo in modern oral tobacco. The company also owns a 25.5% stake in ITC limited, the largest Indian cigarette company.
Employees: 48,989
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Funds holding %
of 7,457 funds
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Analysts bullish %
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
79% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 86 | Existing positions closed: 48
23% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $7.12B [Q4 2024] → $8.76B (+$1.63B) [Q1 2025]
19% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 241 | Existing positions reduced: 203
3% more funds holding
Funds holding: 609 [Q4 2024] → 626 (+17) [Q1 2025]
1.05% more ownership
Funds ownership: 8.56% [Q4 2024] → 9.62% (+1.05%) [Q1 2025]
6% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 17 [Q4 2024] → 16 (-1) [Q1 2025]
24% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $208M | Put options by funds: $274M
Research analyst outlook
We haven’t received any recent analyst ratings for BTI.
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 22 articles about BTI published over the past 30 days
Positive
Seeking Alpha
2 days ago
Dividend Harvesting Portfolio Week 219: $21,900 Allocated, $2,206.52 In Projected Dividends
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Positive
24/7 Wall Street
4 days ago
Markets Could Retest the April Lows: 4 High-Yield 7% Dividend Stocks That Win Either Way
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Neutral
Seeking Alpha
1 week ago
Hard To Imagine Retirement Income Portfolio Without These 2 Picks
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Positive
Seeking Alpha
1 week ago
Dividend Harvesting Portfolio Week 218: $21,800 Allocated, $2,195.04 In Projected Dividends
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Negative
The Motley Fool
1 week ago
Want a Sell-Off Safe Haven? Consider British American Tobacco Stock.
British American Tobacco (BTI -0.27%) is a difficult investment to understand. It isn't that the company's operations are complex, per se, but that the business today has two different outlooks based on the time period over which you want to own it.
Neutral
The Motley Fool
1 week ago
1 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock to Buy Hand Over Fist Right Now as Trump's Tariff Storm Continues to Cast Shade on the Market
It's been one month since President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" announcement, which featured a wave of tariff policies targeting just about every country around the world. During this time period, the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average each plummeted by as much as 11%.
Neutral
CNBC Television
1 week ago
Final Trade: BTI, CRWD, VLO
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Positive
Seeking Alpha
2 weeks ago
5 Relatively Secure And Cheap Dividend Stocks, Yields Up To 9% (May 2025)
This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering significant discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields about 3.74%, we present two other groups of five DGI stocks each, from moderate to high yields of up to 9%.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
2 weeks ago
9 Dividend Aristocrats Potentially Set To Soar, No Matter What Happens Next
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Positive
The Motley Fool
2 weeks ago
Meet This Monster Dividend Stock That Continues to Crush the Market in 2025
The stock market has switched gears in 2025. Growth stocks that were crushing it in 2023 and 2024 have gone south, while steady value stocks with dividend payments have outperformed the broad market indices.
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