British American Tobacco Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

BUL:BMT Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
08 May 24	Buy€52,943	Kingsley Wheaton	Individual	1,904	€27.82
02 May 24	Buy€1,187	Kingsley Wheaton	Individual	43	€27.60
02 May 24	Buy€1,187	Johan Vandermeulen	Individual	43	€27.60
02 May 24	Buy€1,325	Tadeu Marroco	Individual	48	€27.60
02 May 24	Buy€1,214	Jerome Abelman	Individual	44	€27.60
02 May 24	Buy€1,214	Luciano Comin	Individual	44	€27.60
21 Feb 24	Buy€115,307	Karen Guerra	Individual	4,150	€27.78

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of BMT?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	52,500	0.00238%
Employee Share Scheme	1,458,572	0.0662%
State or Government	3,098,149	0.141%
General Public	185,364,129	8.41%
Individual Insiders	230,114,657	10.4%
Private Companies	266,516,917	12.1%
Institutions	1,517,064,815	68.8%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 68.74% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
15.9%	Capital Research and Management Company	349,473,562	€12.1b	2.78%	0.59%
11.9%	Spring Mountain Investments Ltd.	261,485,935	€9.1b	0%	no data
10.4%	Kenneth Dart	229,078,955	€7.9b	0%	no data
6.94%	BlackRock, Inc.	152,896,822	€5.3b	-6.36%	0.09%
4.44%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	97,734,112	€3.4b	0.28%	0.05%
2.19%	Reinet Fund Manager SA	48,310,286	€1.7b	0%	no data
1.94%	GQG Partners LLC	42,751,115	€1.5b	29.5%	1.28%
1.63%	First Eagle Investment Management, LLC	35,956,302	€1.2b	-1.77%	1.73%
1.46%	UBS Asset Management AG	32,220,554	€1.1b	-8.93%	0.11%
1.41%	FMR LLC	30,999,658	€1.1b	-0.76%	0.07%
1.38%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	30,497,478	€1.1b	-2.85%	0.2%
1.18%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	25,941,814	€899.6m	-3.86%	0.03%
0.85%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	18,747,445	€650.1m	33.9%	0.27%
0.84%	Wellington Management Group LLP	18,523,878	€642.4m	-1.43%	0.1%
0.83%	Allan Gray Proprietary Ltd.	18,361,563	€636.7m	-6.75%	6.74%
0.71%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	15,670,757	€543.4m	0.02%	0.12%
0.65%	British American Tobacco plc ESOP	14,371,346	€498.4m	-1.97%	no data
0.6%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	13,157,964	€456.3m	4.69%	0.03%
0.57%	Pictet Asset Management Limited	12,551,575	€435.3m	0.07%	0.39%
0.52%	Orbis Investment Management Limited	11,520,948	€399.5m	-34.1%	1.35%
0.51%	Mondrian Investment Partners Limited	11,332,856	€393.0m	56.4%	2.74%
0.51%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	11,310,828	€392.2m	-12%	0.14%
0.5%	Causeway Capital Management LLC	10,938,012	€379.3m	-19.9%	1.63%
0.48%	DZ Bank AG, Asset Management Arm	10,627,848	€368.5m	-1.3%	3.76%
0.47%	Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	10,412,148	€361.1m	0.22%	0.48%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/31 05:31
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/19 00:00
Earnings	2024/06/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

British American Tobacco p.l.c. is covered by 47 analysts. 12 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Pierre-Yves Gauthier	AlphaValue
David Coleman	Argus Research Company
Michael Steere	Avior Capital Markets