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

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 Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Public Companies	52,500	0.00237%
Employee Share Scheme	1,341,149	0.0605%
State or Government	3,096,632	0.14%
Individual Insiders	230,398,178	10.4%
Private Companies	235,887,811	10.6%
General Public	257,262,073	11.6%
Institutions	1,488,783,041	67.2%

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

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 65.13% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
14.2%	Capital Research and Management Company	314,120,061	UK£7.6b	0.51%	0.49%
10.5%	Spring Mountain Investments Ltd.	233,155,912	UK£5.6b	0%	no data
10.3%	Kenneth Dart	228,750,246	UK£5.5b	0%	no data
7.37%	BlackRock, Inc.	163,440,436	UK£3.9b	-1.51%	0.09%
4.27%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	94,695,371	UK£2.3b	-7.59%	0.05%
2.18%	Reinet Fund Manager SA	48,310,286	UK£1.2b	0%	no data
1.63%	First Eagle Investment Management, LLC	36,031,963	UK£870.2m	0.94%	1.52%
1.51%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	33,530,491	UK£809.7m	-4.53%	0.2%
1.27%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	28,109,979	UK£678.8m	-1.82%	0.03%
1.25%	UBS Asset Management AG	27,718,764	UK£669.4m	5.54%	0.11%
1.13%	FMR LLC	25,116,982	UK£606.6m	3.51%	0.05%
1.01%	Orbis Investment Management Limited	22,308,494	UK£538.7m	0%	2.04%
0.85%	Allan Gray Proprietary Ltd.	18,804,670	UK£454.1m	0.43%	5.88%
0.78%	Janus Henderson Group plc	17,362,738	UK£419.3m	-3.72%	0.23%
0.78%	Wellington Management Group LLP	17,361,374	UK£419.3m	-3.72%	0.08%
0.75%	HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited	16,618,491	UK£401.3m	-4.92%	0.23%
0.74%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	16,384,871	UK£395.7m	-1.57%	0.11%
0.68%	British American Tobacco plc ESOP	15,119,375	UK£365.1m	20.7%	no data
0.62%	Franklin Resources, Inc.	13,667,833	UK£330.1m	0%	0.16%
0.59%	Causeway Capital Management LLC	13,025,476	UK£314.6m	0%	1.64%
0.58%	Pictet Asset Management Limited	12,928,574	UK£312.2m	0.7%	0.27%
0.54%	Societe Generale Group, Banking Investments	12,041,488	UK£290.8m	236%	2.26%
0.54%	BNP Paribas, Private & Investment Banking Investments	12,035,632	UK£290.7m	108%	1.89%
0.54%	Independent Franchise Partners, LLP	12,000,848	UK£289.8m	0%	2.71%
0.5%	Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	11,066,534	UK£267.3m	-7.07%	0.42%