British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI): Investing In A Time Of Crisis

British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.18M but it saw 11680824 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 79.41B USD, the company’s current market price of $35.90 came rising about 0.73 while comparing to the previous closing price of $35.64. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $35.91 and as low as $28.25.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) gives us an average price of $33.41, while its current price level is -0.03% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 27.08% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $32.03 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $30.61. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.35% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.03%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 81.10 which implies that the stock is in overbought territory.

Over the week, BTI’s stock price is moving 3.37% up while it is 15.55% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 22.57% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 7.74%.

Currently, British American Tobacco Plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 2.23B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -15.77% and return on equity (ROE) at -21.63%. It has a 7.39 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.52. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.17 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.41. Its return on asset (ROA) is -10.30% on average.