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British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco's main office is based in New York. British American Tobacco is mostly active in the tobacco sector. The past 10 years the (international) industry gained at around 55 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 57 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a plus of 55 percent.

The past year was a relatively good year for British American Tobacco investors

Over the last 12 months, that were profitable period for the investors in British American Tobacco, the stock gained around 23 percent. Over the period 2011-2016 the stock rose a massive 54,86 percent. British American Tobacco's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively steady and moved between 1519 billion GBp and 1310,4 billion GBp. During 2011 and 2015 British American Tobacco's net results were very volatile and fluctuated between 381,4 billion GBp and 480,31 billion GBp.

Over the past 5 years the English company paid out dividends. On average British American Tobacco's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 705,9 percent annually. Over the period 2011-2015 British American Tobacco raised it's dividends per share each year. Based on the yearly higher dividend payments British American Tobacco is a kind of dividend aristocrat.

British American Tobacco' balance mostly financed with equity

At the end of 2015 the tobacco company's balance sheet was worth 3151,5 billion GBp. Of the total balance sheet 2662,1 billion GBp (84,47 percent) was financed by debt. As per the end of 2015 British American Tobacco's price/earnings-ratio equaled 14. So investors paid for 1 stock 14 times the earnings per share of 2015. We could say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the English stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the tobacco company's market capitalization (the number of shares times the market price) equaled around 7006,52 billion GBp. At the end of 2015 the English company had around 1,86 billion stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

All the company's financial reports are available here. More information about British American Tobacco can be found it's website. .