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
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
21 Feb 24	BuyUK£98,770	Karen Guerra	Individual	4,150	UK£23.80
07 Dec 23	BuyUK£53,797	Kingsley Wheaton	Individual	2,364	UK£22.97
19 Jun 23	BuyUK£42,793	Veronique Laury-Deroubaix	Individual	1,650	UK£25.94
30 May 23	BuyUK£21,882	Kingsley Wheaton	Individual	840	UK£26.05
12 May 23	BuyUK£21,839	Kingsley Wheaton	Individual	808	UK£27.03

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: BATS insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of BATS?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	136,700	0.00615%
Employee Share Scheme	1,301,318	0.0585%
Individual Insiders	1,600,669	0.072%
State or Government	3,199,103	0.144%
Private Companies	235,183,563	10.6%
General Public	493,019,871	22.2%
Institutions	1,489,822,792	67%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 55.64% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
14%	Capital Research and Management Company	310,936,600	UK£7.2b	-2.44%	0.47%
10.5%	Spring Mountain Investments Ltd.	233,155,912	UK£5.4b	4.85%	no data
8.6%	BlackRock, Inc.	191,246,971	UK£4.4b	8.26%	0.1%
4.59%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	102,134,138	UK£2.4b	1.42%	0.05%
2.17%	Reinet Fund Manager SA	48,310,286	UK£1.1b	0%	no data
1.57%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	35,007,786	UK£814.1m	-1.15%	0.21%
1.56%	First Eagle Investment Management, LLC	34,639,152	UK£805.6m	3.65%	1.43%
1.47%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	32,611,268	UK£758.4m	0.22%	0.04%
1.24%	UBS Asset Management AG	27,626,596	UK£642.5m	7.97%	0.11%
0.92%	FMR LLC	20,566,420	UK£478.3m	8.76%	0.04%
0.84%	Allan Gray Proprietary Ltd.	18,723,415	UK£435.4m	0.88%	5.61%
0.76%	Janus Henderson Group plc	16,943,631	UK£394.0m	-0.81%	0.22%
0.71%	Orbis Investment Management Limited	15,782,931	UK£367.0m	1.6%	1.41%
0.68%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	15,156,521	UK£352.5m	0.72%	0.1%
0.59%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	13,180,499	UK£306.5m	-26.4%	0.15%
0.59%	Wellington Management Group LLP	13,173,730	UK£306.4m	-12.2%	0.06%
0.58%	Pictet Asset Management Limited	13,003,597	UK£302.4m	0.21%	0.26%
0.57%	British American Tobacco plc ESOP	12,760,562	UK£296.8m	-1.43%	no data
0.56%	Lombard Odier Asset Management (Europe) Ltd.	12,508,984	UK£290.9m	0.5%	5.64%
0.56%	Independent Franchise Partners, LLP	12,470,991	UK£290.0m	-1.15%	2.69%
0.55%	Causeway Capital Management LLC	12,250,759	UK£284.9m	3.92%	1.57%
0.54%	Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	12,103,107	UK£281.5m	-8.13%	0.47%
0.53%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	11,680,754	UK£271.6m	-9.85%	0.18%
0.49%	Invesco Ltd.	10,921,181	UK£254.0m	-24.9%	0.09%
0.48%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	10,584,660	UK£246.2m	3.94%	0.03%