Insider Buying: British American Tobacco p.l.c. (LON:BATS) Insider Purchases 5 Shares of Stock

British American Tobacco p.l.c. (LON:BATS) insider Soraya Benchikh purchased 5 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, November 6th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 2,819 ($36.70) per share, for a total transaction of £140.95 ($183.48).

Soraya Benchikh also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Wednesday, October 2nd, Soraya Benchikh purchased 5 shares of British American Tobacco stock. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 2,727 ($35.50) per share, for a total transaction of £136.35 ($177.49).

British American Tobacco Stock Down 0.3 %

Shares of BATS opened at GBX 2,731 ($35.55) on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of £60.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -439.07, a PEG ratio of 3.12 and a beta of 0.27. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 74.14, a quick ratio of 0.47 and a current ratio of 0.88. The business’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 2,770.60 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 2,599.44. British American Tobacco p.l.c. has a 52 week low of GBX 2,228.78 ($29.01) and a 52 week high of GBX 2,994 ($38.97).

British American Tobacco Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Monday, February 3rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 19th will be paid a GBX 58.88 ($0.77) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 19th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.54%. This is an increase from British American Tobacco’s previous dividend of $57.72. British American Tobacco’s dividend payout ratio is -3,794.21%.

British American Tobacco Company Profile

British American Tobacco p.l.c. engages in the provision of tobacco and nicotine products to consumers worldwide. It also offers vapour, heated, and modern oral nicotine products; combustible cigarettes; and traditional oral products, such as snus and moist snuff. The company offers its products under the Vuse, glo, Velo, Grizzly, Kodiak, Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Rothmans, Camel, Natural American Spirit, Newport, Vogue, Viceroy, Kool, Peter Stuyvesant, Craven A, State Express 555 and Shuang Xi brands.