British American Tobacco Plc ADR (NYSE:BTI) finished Thursday with a subtraction of -$0.47 to close at $31.38, a downside of -1.48 percent. An average of 4,568,060 shares of common stock have been traded in the last five days. There was a fall of -$2.12 in the past week, and it reached a new high 17 times over the past 12 months. The last 20 days have seen an average of 3,101,030 shares traded, while the 50-day average volume stands at 3,020,770.
BTI stock has decreased by -5.37% in the last month. The company shares reached their 1-month lowest point of $31.14 on 09/28/23. With the stock rallying to its 52-week high on 01/06/23, shares of the company touched a low of $31.62 and a high of $42.36 in 52 weeks. It has reached a new high 3 times so far this year and lost -21.51% or -$8.60 in price. In spite of this, the price is down -25.92% from the 52-week high.
Valuation Metrics
British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) has a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 6.77. The stock’s beta is 0.58. Other valuation ratios to consider include the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio at 2.06, the price-to-book (PB) ratio at 0.76, and the price-to-cash flow ratio at 7.15.
Financial Health
The quick ratio of British American Tobacco Plc ADR for the recent quarter was 0.58, and the current ratio was 0.93, indicating that the company is not able to meet its debt obligations. Further, the company has a long term debt to equity ratio of 0.51 and a total debt to equity ratio of 0.58 for the recent quarter. British American Tobacco Plc ADR’s EBITDA margin is 46.86%, while its operating margin for the same period stands at 46.06%. Its gross profit as reported stood at $28.29 billion compared to revenue of $34.21 billion.
Earnings Surprise
The company posted a net income of $6.67 billion in the quarter, while revenues were shrunk -2.03%.
Technical Picture
From a technical analysis perspective, let’s take a brief look at British American Tobacco Plc ADR (BTI) price momentum. RSI 9-day as of the close on 28 September was 23.48%, suggesting the stock is oversold, with historical volatility in this time frame at 16.79%.
As of today, BTI’s price is $32.15 -6.33% or -$2.12 from its 5-day moving average. BTI is currently trading -6.33% lower than its 20-day SMA and -11.85% lower than its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is -7.13% below the SMA50 and -24.24% below the SMA200.
The stochastic %K and %D were 4.89% and 10.96%, respectively, and the average true range (ATR) was 0.47. With the 14-day stochastic at 8.33% and the average true range at 0.44, the RSI (14) stands at 31.26%. The stock has reached -1.06 on the 9-day MACD Oscillator while the 14-day reading was at -1.30.
