Imperial Brands PLC (LON:IMB) Insider Buys £39,982.14 in Stock

Imperial Brands PLC (LON:IMB) insider Alan Johnson acquired 1,397 shares of Imperial Brands stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 11th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 2,862 ($35.97) per share, for a total transaction of £39,982.14 ($50,247.76).

Imperial Brands Price Performance

Imperial Brands stock opened at GBX 2,808.50 ($35.30) on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 166.91, a quick ratio of 0.41 and a current ratio of 0.72. The firm has a market cap of £23.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.89, a P/E/G ratio of 16.51 and a beta of 0.42. The business’s fifty day moving average is GBX 2,630.87 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 2,377.18. Imperial Brands PLC has a 52 week low of GBX 1,662 ($20.89) and a 52 week high of GBX 2,897 ($36.41).

Imperial Brands (LON:IMB) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 19th. The company reported GBX 297 ($3.73) EPS for the quarter. Imperial Brands had a return on equity of 41.84% and a net margin of 11.44%. Equities research analysts forecast that Imperial Brands PLC will post 246.5723613 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Imperial Brands Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 31st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 20th will be paid a dividend of GBX 54.26 ($0.68) per share. This represents a dividend yield of 2.43%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 20th. This is a positive change from Imperial Brands’s previous dividend of $22.45. Imperial Brands’s dividend payout ratio is 64.80%.

Imperial Brands Company Profile

We are Imperial Brands, a global consumer-focused organisation and the fourth largest international tobacco company.

We’re driven by our purpose: to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure. The world’s one billion adult smokers are seeking new and potentially less harmful products and we are committed to meeting their diverse and evolving needs.