British American Tobacco p.l.c.

LSE:BATS Stock Report

Market Cap: UK£65.1b

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

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
Public Companies52,5000.00238%
Employee Share Scheme1,458,5720.0661%
State or Government3,098,1490.14%
Individual Insiders230,114,59310.4%
Private Companies243,220,62911%
General Public353,415,95716%
Institutions1,373,747,10662.3%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 64.16% of the company
OwnershipNameSharesCurrent ValueChange %Portfolio %
13.6%
Capital Research and Management Company
300,484,896UK£8.9b-0.11%0.58%
10.8%
Spring Mountain Investments Ltd.
237,877,583UK£7.0b0%no data
10.4%
Kenneth Dart
229,078,955UK£6.8b0%no data
6.85%
BlackRock, Inc.
150,961,023UK£4.5b0.12%0.1%
4.43%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
97,653,848UK£2.9b0.2%0.05%
2.19%
Reinet Fund Manager SA
48,310,286UK£1.4b0%no data
1.61%
First Eagle Investment Management, LLC
35,593,378UK£1.1b-0.91%1.77%
1.46%
UBS Asset Management AG
32,294,936UK£952.7m-8.01%0.12%
1.4%
Legal & General Investment Management Limited
30,917,399UK£912.1m-1.35%0.2%
1.25%
FMR LLC
27,603,055UK£814.3m-1.47%0.07%
1.19%
State Street Global Advisors, Inc.
26,328,800UK£776.7m-0.02%0.04%
1%
GQG Partners LLC
22,055,596UK£650.6m0%0.99%
0.88%
Allan Gray Proprietary Ltd.
19,434,033UK£573.3m-1.3%6.99%
0.85%
HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited
18,691,320UK£551.4m34%0.27%
0.82%
Wellington Management Group LLP
18,130,998UK£534.9m-3.52%0.1%
0.7%
Massachusetts Financial Services Company
15,495,543UK£457.1m-0.44%0.12%
0.65%
British American Tobacco plc ESOP
14,371,346UK£424.0m-1.97%no data
0.59%
Causeway Capital Management LLC
13,056,536UK£385.2m0%2.05%
0.57%
Geode Capital Management, LLC
12,576,712UK£371.0m0.06%0.03%
0.57%
Pictet Asset Management Limited
12,533,201UK£369.7m0.07%0.4%
0.51%
Franklin Resources, Inc.
11,356,135UK£335.0m-11.7%0.14%
0.47%
Royal London Asset Management Ltd.
10,412,148UK£307.2m0.22%0.48%
0.46%
Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
10,173,495UK£300.1m0%2.59%
0.45%
DZ Bank AG, Asset Management Arm
9,870,623UK£291.2m-8.33%3.47%
0.43%
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Private Banking and Investment Banking Investments
9,561,700UK£282.1m0%0.09%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2024/12/18 01:28
End of Day Share Price 2024/12/18 00:00
Earnings2024/06/30
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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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.

AnalystInstitution
Pierre-Yves GauthierAlphaValue
David ColemanArgus Research Company
Michael SteereAvior Capital Markets