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The third-largest tobacco company by volume, British American Tobacco sold 465 billion cigarettes in 2025. Its leading brands are Dunhill, Kent, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike, and Rothmans in cigarettes. Its ownership of the Camel, Natural American Spirit, and Newport brands are limited to the US. In next-generation products, the company has the Vuse brand in vaping, Glo in heated tobacco, and Velo in modern oral tobacco. The company also owns a 22.9% stake in ITC limited, the largest Indian cigarette company.
British American Tobacco Industries P.L.C. Common ADR trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BTI.
As of April 17, 2026, BTI stock price climbed to $56.68 with 3,703,796 million shares trading.
BTI has a beta of 0.11, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BTI has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.
BTI has a market cap of $122.73 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, BTI traded as high as $63.22 and as low as $28.25.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that BTI belongs to (by Net Assets): CGXU, FENI, FVD, PID, IDVO.
BTI has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +41.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +36.3%. However, in the most recent history, BTI shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -1.2% in the last 3 month period and -2.7% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +2.9% and +8.3%, respectively.
BTI support price is $55.28 and resistance is $57.00 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BTI shares will trade within this expected range on the day.