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British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BTI)

NYSE / Consumer Defensive / Tobacco

Share price

56.66 USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026

Market capitalisation

122.20B USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026
Market data
Oct 14, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 13, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 14, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

10.1% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

11.92x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

6.3% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 14.13B GBPFY2016 Net income: 4.65B GBPFY2017 Revenue: 19.56B GBPFY2017 Net income: 37.48B GBPFY2018 Revenue: 24.49B GBPFY2018 Net income: 6.03B GBPFY2019 Revenue: 25.88B GBPFY2019 Net income: 5.70B GBPFY2020 Revenue: 25.78B GBPFY2020 Net income: 6.40B GBPFY2021 Revenue: 25.68B GBPFY2021 Net income: 6.80B GBPFY2022 Revenue: 27.66B GBPFY2022 Net income: 6.67B GBPFY2023 Revenue: 27.28B GBPFY2023 Net income: -14.37B GBPFY2024 Revenue: 25.87B GBPFY2024 Net income: 3.07B GBPFY2025 Revenue: 25.61B GBPFY2025 Net income: 7.76B GBP
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 11.92x at the close of 2026-10-14 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 10.00x and 15.00x.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (136 companies), 11.92x sits at the 17th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.84x to 33.06x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 10.1% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (98 companies), 10.1% sits at the 64th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 2.7% to 13.7%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 4.92x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Defensive sector, year by year. (FY2018 to FY2025, 8 fiscal years of British American Tobacco p.l.c. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of British American Tobacco p.l.c.)
What could explain it
What in British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines British American Tobacco p.l.c. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on British American Tobacco p.l.c., and where in its filings. (4 questions for British American Tobacco p.l.c.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for British American Tobacco p.l.c.)

These are BTI’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, accession 0001303523-26-000017.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

British American Tobacco p.l.c: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax10.1% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Return on equity16.9% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Return on capital employed, pre-tax10.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Return on assets7.1% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Operating margin39.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Net margin30.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
BTI 30.3%
UL 18.8%ABEV 17.6%CL 10.5%MO 29.8%BUD 11.5%
10.5%30.3%
Net margin: BTI against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

British American Tobacco p.l.c: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.77 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Current ratio0.87 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Quick ratio0.57 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Interest coverage4.92x ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Altman Z-score1.72 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Net debt31.77B ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Total assets 109.29BTotal liabilities 61.15BShareholders' equity 46.03BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What British American Tobacco p.l.c owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017).

British American Tobacco p.l.c: balance sheet position
Total assets109.29B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026
Total liabilities61.15B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026
Shareholders' equity46.03B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026
Cash3.83B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026
Total debt35.60B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026
Net debt31.77B
Current ratio0.87
Debt to equity0.77

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

British American Tobacco p.l.c: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings11.92x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book2.01x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Price to sales3.61x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Enterprise value to EBIT12.44x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Enterprise value to EBITDA9.91x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value BTI on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for British American Tobacco p.l.c today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

British American Tobacco p.l.c: valuation
Share price56.66 USD
Market capitalisation122.20B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA9.91x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per sharen/a

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like British American Tobacco p.l.c

  1. Unilever PLC (UL)Market cap 137.60B USD
  2. Ambev S.A. (ABEV)Market cap 50.22B USD
  3. Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL)Market cap 73.99B USD
  4. Altria Group, Inc. (MO)Market cap 122.20B USD
  5. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD)Market cap 156.60B USD

Same sector (Consumer Defensive) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

British American Tobacco p.l.c: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield6.3% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Free cash flow5.79B GBP ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Free cash flow margin22.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
FY2016 Free cash flow: 4.02B GBPFY2016 Net income: 4.65B GBPFY2017 Free cash flow: 4.56B GBPFY2017 Net income: 37.48B GBPFY2018 Free cash flow: 9.54B GBPFY2018 Net income: 6.03B GBPFY2019 Free cash flow: 8.33B GBPFY2019 Net income: 5.70B GBPFY2020 Free cash flow: 9.28B GBPFY2020 Net income: 6.40B GBPFY2021 Free cash flow: 9.19B GBPFY2021 Net income: 6.80B GBPFY2022 Free cash flow: 9.87B GBPFY2022 Net income: 6.67B GBPFY2023 Free cash flow: 10.25B GBPFY2023 Net income: -14.37B GBPFY2024 Free cash flow: 9.64B GBPFY2024 Net income: 3.07B GBPFY2025 Free cash flow: 5.79B GBPFY2025 Net income: 7.76B GBP
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filing

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

British American Tobacco p.l.c.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
11.92xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
2.01xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
12.44xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
6.3%FY2025Oct 14, 2026
10.1%FY2025Feb 13, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
0.77FY2025Feb 13, 2026
0.87FY2025Feb 13, 2026
3.61xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
1.72FY2025Oct 14, 2026
-2.35FY2025Feb 13, 2026
5/9FY2025Feb 13, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 14, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 14, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports British American Tobacco p.l.c filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in GBP, as filed.

British American Tobacco p.l.c: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202525.61B10.00B7.76Bn/a5.79B39.0%16.9%20-F, Feb 13, 20260001303523-26-000017
FY202425.87B2.74B3.07Bn/a9.64B10.6%6.4%20-F, Feb 14, 20250001303523-25-000021
FY202327.28B-15.75B-14.37Bn/a10.25B-57.7%-28.2%20-F, Feb 9, 20240001303523-24-000024
FY202227.66B10.52B6.67Bn/a9.87B38.0%9.1%20-F, Mar 2, 20230001303523-23-000012
FY202125.68B10.23B6.80Bn/a9.19B39.9%10.4%20-F, Mar 8, 20220001193125-22-068869
FY202025.78B9.96B6.40Bn/a9.28B38.6%10.2%20-F, Mar 9, 20210001193125-21-073992
FY201925.88B9.02B5.70Bn/a8.33B34.8%8.9%20-F, Mar 26, 20200001193125-20-086441
FY201824.49B9.31B6.03Bn/a9.54B38.0%9.2%20-F, Mar 15, 20190001193125-19-075779
FY201719.56B6.41B37.48Bn/a4.56B32.8%61.6%20-F, Mar 15, 20180001193125-18-083410
FY201614.13B4.66B4.65Bn/a4.02B32.9%56.8%20-F, Mar 15, 20180001193125-18-083410
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 6.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 5.9%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 4.1%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

British American Tobacco p.l.c: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.35 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0001303523-26-000017
Named tests met4 of 30 Computed
Beta0.03 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 4 met, 21 not met, 5 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; Owner earnings yield; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Cash-covered dividend; Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(10)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 10 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, PEG Ratio, Eps Growth 5Y. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 5 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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