British American Tobacco p.l.c. (LON:BATS) Insider Tadeu Marroco Buys 433 Shares

British American Tobacco p.l.c. (LON:BATS) insider Tadeu Marroco bought 433 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 9th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 2,076 ($26.08) per share, with a total value of £8,989.08 ($11,292.81).

Tadeu Marroco also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Wednesday, May 1st, Tadeu Marroco purchased 6 shares of British American Tobacco stock. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 2,347 ($29.48) per share, with a total value of £140.82 ($176.91).
• On Wednesday, April 3rd, Tadeu Marroco acquired 7 shares of British American Tobacco stock. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 2,401 ($30.16) per share, for a total transaction of £168.07 ($211.14).
• On Wednesday, March 6th, Tadeu Marroco acquired 6 shares of British American Tobacco stock. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 2,293 ($28.81) per share, with a total value of £137.58 ($172.84).

British American Tobacco Price Performance

British American Tobacco stock traded up GBX 34 ($0.43) during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching GBX 2,435 ($30.59). The company had a trading volume of 9,892,247 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,830,916. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 2,347.24 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 2,380.41. British American Tobacco p.l.c. has a fifty-two week low of GBX 2,233 ($28.05) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 2,765.50 ($34.74). The company has a market cap of £54.30 billion, a P/E ratio of -374.19, a P/E/G ratio of 3.12 and a beta of 0.25. The company has a current ratio of 0.90, a quick ratio of 0.47 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 75.41.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Jefferies Financial Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a GBX 3,300 ($41.46) price objective on shares of British American Tobacco in a research note on Monday, April 22nd.

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.