British American Tobacco p.l.c.

LSE:BATS Stock Report

Market Cap: UK£61.8b

British American Tobacco Ownership

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

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:BATS Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
DateValueNameEntityRoleSharesMax Price
08 May 24BuyUK£45,544Kingsley WheatonIndividual1,904UK£23.93
02 May 24BuyUK£1,016Kingsley WheatonIndividual43UK£23.63
02 May 24BuyUK£1,016Johan VandermeulenIndividual43UK£23.63
02 May 24BuyUK£1,134Tadeu MarrocoIndividual48UK£23.63
02 May 24BuyUK£1,040Jerome AbelmanIndividual44UK£23.63
02 May 24BuyUK£1,040Luciano CominIndividual44UK£23.63
21 Feb 24BuyUK£98,770Karen GuerraIndividual4,150UK£23.80
07 Dec 23BuyUK£53,797Kingsley WheatonIndividual2,364UK£22.97

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 BATS?
Owner TypeNumber of SharesOwnership Percentage
Employee Share Scheme1,458,5720.0661%
State or Government3,096,2090.14%
Individual Insiders230,114,11210.4%
General Public235,187,34210.7%
Private Companies238,498,95810.8%
Institutions1,497,986,88467.9%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 66.46% of the company
OwnershipNameSharesCurrent ValueChange %Portfolio %
15.2%
Capital Research and Management Company
335,793,165UK£9.4b0.56%0.54%
10.6%
Spring Mountain Investments Ltd.
233,155,912UK£6.5b0%no data
10.4%
Kenneth Dart
229,078,955UK£6.4b0%no data
7.56%
BlackRock, Inc.
166,794,390UK£4.7b0.7%0.09%
4.41%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
97,392,380UK£2.7b0.75%0.05%
2.19%
Reinet Fund Manager SA
48,310,286UK£1.4b0%no data
1.64%
First Eagle Investment Management, LLC
36,201,468UK£1.0b0.08%1.63%
1.47%
UBS Asset Management AG
32,330,860UK£906.2m26.5%0.11%
1.42%
Legal & General Investment Management Limited
31,243,099UK£875.7m-2.91%0.19%
1.36%
FMR LLC
29,927,612UK£838.8m7.17%0.06%
1.22%
State Street Global Advisors, Inc.
26,973,646UK£756.0m-4.94%0.03%
0.89%
Allan Gray Proprietary Ltd.
19,690,831UK£551.9m0.23%6.63%
0.88%
GQG Partners LLC
19,314,684UK£541.4m0%0.52%
0.82%
Wellington Management Group LLP
18,134,170UK£508.3m2.34%0.09%
0.79%
Orbis Investment Management Limited
17,487,209UK£490.1m-20.7%1.67%
0.71%
Massachusetts Financial Services Company
15,621,612UK£437.9m-9.84%0.11%
0.66%
British American Tobacco plc ESOP
14,454,443UK£405.1m-3.19%no data
0.62%
Causeway Capital Management LLC
13,638,379UK£382.3m-0.85%2.02%
0.57%
Pictet Asset Management Limited
12,672,704UK£355.2m-1.45%0.31%
0.57%
Geode Capital Management, LLC
12,575,627UK£352.5m5.17%0.03%
0.54%
HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited
11,909,560UK£333.8m-44.8%0.17%
0.53%
Janus Henderson Group plc
11,672,888UK£327.2m-32.6%0.16%
0.52%
Franklin Resources, Inc.
11,477,263UK£321.7m-16.1%0.14%
0.47%
Royal London Asset Management Ltd.
10,301,828UK£288.7m-3.98%0.45%
0.46%
Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
10,173,495UK£285.1m-9.41%2.26%