Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI)?

British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.54M but it saw 3748032 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 90.44B USD, the company’s current market price of $41.19 came rising about 0.91 while comparing to the previous closing price of $40.82. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $42.74 and as low as $28.25. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $40.87 while lowest mark touched by it was $41.3.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) gives us an average price of $40.72, while its current price level is -3.63% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 45.81% 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 $39.71 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $36.56. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.15% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.18%. 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 59.41 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Morgan Stanley downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Underweight” from “Overweight” on October 03, 2024 while assigning a price target of $33.

Over the week, BTI’s stock price is moving 0.29% up while it is 6.00% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 13.41% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 37.07%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in April, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 4.55.

Currently, British American Tobacco Plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 2.20B with 0.27% of that held by the insiders while 9.56% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 3.68% and return on equity (ROE) at 5.87%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 24.42 while having a 8.57 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.41. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.46 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.73. Its return on asset (ROA) is 2.52% on average.