Soraya Benchikh Acquires 5 Shares of British American Tobacco p.l.c. (LON:BATS) Stock

British American Tobacco p.l.c. (LON:BATS - Get Free Report) insider Soraya Benchikh bought 5 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 6th. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 2,819 ($36.70) per share, with a total value of £140.95 ($183.48).

Soraya Benchikh also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Wednesday, October 2nd, Soraya Benchikh bought 5 shares of British American Tobacco stock. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 2,727 ($35.50) per share, for a total transaction of £136.35 ($177.49).

British American Tobacco Price Performance

Shares of LON BATS traded down GBX 8 ($0.10) during midday trading on Thursday, reaching GBX 2,731 ($35.55). The company's stock had a trading volume of 2,161,103 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,435,790. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 74.14, a quick ratio of 0.47 and a current ratio of 0.88. The company has a market cap of £60.36 billion, a P/E ratio of -439.07, a P/E/G ratio of 3.12 and a beta of 0.27. The business's 50 day moving average price is GBX 2,770.60 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 2,599.44. British American Tobacco p.l.c. has a fifty-two week low of GBX 2,228.78 ($29.01) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 2,994 ($38.97).

British American Tobacco Increases Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Monday, February 3rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 19th will be issued a GBX 58.88 ($0.77) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 19th. This is a boost from British American Tobacco's previous dividend of $57.72. This represents a yield of 2.54%. British American Tobacco's payout ratio is currently -3,794.21%.

About British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco p.l.c. engages in the provision of tobacco and nicotine products to consumers worldwide. It also offers vapour, heated, and modern oral nicotine products; combustible cigarettes; and traditional oral products, such as snus and moist snuff. The company offers its products under the Vuse, glo, Velo, Grizzly, Kodiak, Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Rothmans, Camel, Natural American Spirit, Newport, Vogue, Viceroy, Kool, Peter Stuyvesant, Craven A, State Express 555 and Shuang Xi brands.