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
08 May 24	BuyUK£45,544	Kingsley Wheaton	Individual	1,904	UK£23.93
02 May 24	BuyUK£1,016	Kingsley Wheaton	Individual	43	UK£23.63
02 May 24	BuyUK£1,016	Johan Vandermeulen	Individual	43	UK£23.63
02 May 24	BuyUK£1,134	Tadeu Marroco	Individual	48	UK£23.63
02 May 24	BuyUK£1,040	Jerome Abelman	Individual	44	UK£23.63
02 May 24	BuyUK£1,040	Luciano Comin	Individual	44	UK£23.63
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

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	52,500	0.00237%
Employee Share Scheme	1,507,194	0.0681%
State or Government	3,100,628	0.14%
Individual Insiders	230,181,734	10.4%
Private Companies	236,335,044	10.7%
General Public	242,346,475	11%
Institutions	1,499,191,725	67.8%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 66.03% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
14.8%	Capital Research and Management Company	327,181,781	UK£8.5b	4.69%	0.53%
10.5%	Spring Mountain Investments Ltd.	233,155,912	UK£6.0b	0%	no data
10.4%	Kenneth Dart	229,078,955	UK£5.9b	0.14%	no data
7.38%	BlackRock, Inc.	163,313,173	UK£4.2b	-1.59%	0.09%
4.37%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	96,667,611	UK£2.5b	-6.81%	0.05%
2.18%	Reinet Fund Manager SA	48,310,286	UK£1.2b	0%	no data
1.63%	First Eagle Investment Management, LLC	36,114,633	UK£933.4m	1.17%	1.62%
1.45%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	32,179,589	UK£831.7m	-8.38%	0.2%
1.28%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	28,379,347	UK£733.5m	-0.88%	0.04%
1.2%	FMR LLC	26,442,591	UK£683.4m	12.8%	0.05%
1.15%	UBS Asset Management AG	25,408,687	UK£656.7m	-3.25%	0.1%
1.01%	Orbis Investment Management Limited	22,308,494	UK£576.6m	0%	2.19%
0.97%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	21,529,432	UK£556.5m	23.2%	0.31%
0.88%	Allan Gray Proprietary Ltd.	19,524,960	UK£504.7m	0%	6.47%
0.8%	Wellington Management Group LLP	17,718,958	UK£458.0m	-1.74%	0.09%
0.78%	Janus Henderson Group plc	17,328,801	UK£447.9m	-3.91%	0.24%
0.78%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	17,316,030	UK£447.6m	4.03%	0.12%
0.67%	British American Tobacco plc ESOP	14,930,871	UK£385.9m	19.2%	no data
0.62%	Causeway Capital Management LLC	13,718,694	UK£354.6m	5.32%	1.91%
0.62%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	13,670,828	UK£353.3m	0.02%	0.16%
0.58%	Pictet Asset Management Limited	12,859,019	UK£332.4m	0.16%	0.29%
0.54%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	11,957,043	UK£309.0m	3.61%	0.03%
0.51%	Independent Franchise Partners, LLP	11,230,430	UK£290.3m	-6.42%	2.57%
0.48%	Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	10,729,262	UK£277.3m	-9.91%	0.43%
0.45%	JPMorgan Chase & Co, Private Banking and Investment Banking Investments	9,916,534	UK£256.3m	-6.88%	0.09%