British American Tobacco Share Discussion Threads

[philanderer] 26/7/2018 12:07

Market report:

British American Tobacco had its best day on the market for nearly a decade. Shares rose 177p, or 4.5%, to 4150p after half-year sales leapt 57% to £11.64 billion. The group is hopeful of breaking the £1 billion revenue barrier for sales from vape and tobacco heating products.

[philanderer] 26/7/2018 09:41

🌞🍻👍

[this_time_its_different] 26/7/2018 08:52

Market is an irrational animal diseased by fear and greed. BATS is still cheap trading at £41, it's fair value right now should be £45-£48

[dbensimon] 26/7/2018 08:33

So overdue!!!

[2vdm] 26/7/2018 08:27

Just about broken even and I thought this was a defensive share!. Hopefully will stabilise from here and slowly recover.

[dbensimon] 26/7/2018 08:03

Happy days gone above the £40 mark

[unnavailable] 26/7/2018 07:32

Wait, is that a huge miss on eps?.

[unnavailable] 26/7/2018 07:17

Seems all good to me. Views?

[philanderer] 26/7/2018 00:24

BAT Press Office
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@BATPress

Our Group’s 2018 half-year report is released tomorrow, Thursday 26 July, at 7am.

Results webcast at 9:30am

[danieldanj] 25/7/2018 21:36

British American Tobacco (BATS) Earnings-Reaction to Keep an Eye

[hubshank] 24/7/2018 14:33

There is of course that! :-D

[stepone68] 24/7/2018 14:24

Shares go up, shares go down. Sit back and collect the dividends (next one due 8th August).

Cheers,

[hubshank] 24/7/2018 14:08

One gets the feeling that the share price wants to go up, however it is struggling to do so. It has been in limbo for a few weeks now. Maybe Thursday will see some positive action!

Any thoughts?

[philanderer] 23/7/2018 09:44

cable 1.3133

fags down.

[philanderer] 20/7/2018 19:18

And Liberum reiterating BUY today.

[philanderer] 20/7/2018 18:53

Alliance News..

On the London Stock Exchange, British American Tobacco was among the large cap risers, closing up 2.5%, on a read-across from Philip Morris International, which has lowered 2018 guidance.

The Marlboro cigarettes maker revised its outlook for annual reported earnings per share to a range of between USD5.02 to USD5.12, down from the prior range of USD5.25 to USD5.40 per share. The earnings were lowered mainly due to lower consumer demand of tobacco heated products in Japan.

[andrewbaker] 20/7/2018 16:31

If it closes today's gap around £38.75, on Monday, I'm buying more.

[this_time_its_different] 20/7/2018 14:54

IF FDA wasn't tinkering nicotine, BATS would be the buy of the century. Personally I think trump and the FDA have a wink wink nudge nudge relationship, Big Tobacco is a big donor to republicans. No one kills the golden goose. I currently own 110 shares of BATS and 137 shares of IMB, it's more than enough exposure for me in tobacco. Try and stay diversified as well, since tobacco is prone to regulation. Though historically downturns in tobacco stocks have been immense buying opportunities.

[andrewbaker] 20/7/2018 10:10

Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund is now selling BATS on ethical grounds; so yet another getting out of a nice little earner: Arfur Daley wouldn't be so troubled by how it makes its dosh, and neither am I. It's got a gap to cover at £37.00, going back a tad, but I'm not waiting for that: today there is a gap at £38.65, so I'll wait for that to be covered, and get more. This is now so heavy a holding, but I can't turn it down. If gold dropped to say, $500/ounce would you refuse to buy??? This is gas (as in smoke/vapour as opposed to liquid) gold. Far better analysts than me say BATS should be around £52: as current prices it is a steal (but you can afford to let the price drop back a little, with all those saintly ethical sellers clearing out).

[this_time_its_different] 20/7/2018 09:25

BATS is still a strong buy below £40 and a buy below £45.

[this_time_its_different] 20/7/2018 09:22

Market finally realising half the world smokes with little government regulation on a product that is highly addictive and costs 1p per cigarette to make.

[philanderer] 20/7/2018 09:08

4000p within sight. 👍🏼

[philanderer] 19/7/2018 17:57

In US corporate news, tobacco firm Philip Morris International lowered its fiscal 2018 reported earnings outlook. The revised outlook reflected the rightsizing of its existing IQOS heated tobacco device and consumable inventories as well as a shift in previously positive currency to a headwind for the full year.

Philip Morris shares were down 5.2% in New York

[costax1654x] 18/7/2018 13:24

If interested in any oil company hnr is a great one is about to fly.Big weeks ahead!