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British American Tobacco BTI

US equityMarket cap rank #151Tobacco

$60.89 −$2.19 (-3.47%)

Pre-market · Nov 9, 4:50 am ET · After hours $60.89 0.00%

Open$60.28

Prev close$63.08

Day range$60.23 – $61.60

Volume5.01M

Market cap$130.83B

P/E (TTM)15.7

Dividend yield5.35%

Ownership & positioning

Who holds it, who is betting against it, and where the big money is moving

Institutional ownership97.6%+0.97 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding1,454-10 vs. prior quarter

Short interest0.17% of floatDays to cover 1.0 · as of 15 Oct 2026

Short-sale volume share18.8%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: +$35.98M (10 inflow days, 10 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

Super/Big orders approximate institutional-size trades; Mid/Small approximate retail-size trades. Net buy minus sell value in each bucket, summed over the window.

The five largest holders on file together own 44.2% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

Capital Research18.08%
BlackRock8.23%
Standard Bank Group Limited6.91%
FMR6.39%
Spring Mountain Investments Ltd.4.61%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC3.83%
GQG Partners, LLC3.75%
Wellington Management Group1.78%

By investor type

Mutual Fund75.65%
Public Company10.62%
Private Company6.84%
Government Pension Fund1.23%
Hedge Fund1.02%
Sovereign Wealth Fund0.93%
Corporate Pension Plan0.69%
Individual/Insider0.51%

Reported short interest has fallen from 0.29% to 0.17% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (31 Jul 2026 to 15 Oct 2026).

Recent institutional activity

Holder	Type	Period	Share change	New stake
Capital Research	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+21,239,813	18.0%
Mondrian Investment Partners Limited	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,280,822	0.6%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+6,281,152	0.5%
WCM Investment Management	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+5,199,613	0.8%
UBS Asset Management	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+2,673,364	1.4%
CIBC Asset Management Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+2,479,023	0.2%
FMR	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+2,033,488	6.4%
Artisan Partners Limited Partnership	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,678,646	0.2%
Nordea Investment Management AB	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,668,603	0.1%
Metzler Asset Management GmbH	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,529,194	0.1%
Royal London Asset Management Ltd.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,113,937	0.5%
S.W. Mitchell Capital LLP	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,099,392	0.1%
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+1,085,723	0.6%
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board	Government Pension Fund	2026/Q3	+938,726	0.1%
Marathon Asset Management Limited	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+860,179	0.0%

Institutional buy/sell activity by reporting period, largest moves first.

Short interest, by report

Report date	Shares short	% of float	Days to cover
15 Oct 2026	3,680,971	0.2%	1.0
30 Sep 2026	2,891,202	0.1%	1.0
15 Sep 2026	2,704,606	0.1%	1.0
31 Aug 2026	2,847,962	0.1%	1.0
14 Aug 2026	3,879,532	0.2%	1.0
31 Jul 2026	6,183,718	0.3%	1.3

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