Imperial Brands PLC (IMBBF) Stock

About Imperial Brands PLC

Imperial Brands PLC, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, imports, markets, and sells tobacco and tobacco-related products in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Asia, Australasia, and internationally. It offers a range of cigarettes, tobacco accessories, vapour, heated tobacco, and oral nicotine. The company sells its products under various brands, including JPS, Davidoff, Gauloises, West, Winston, Kool, Lambert & Butler, P&S, Fortuna, Nobel, News, Backwoods, Champion, Golden Virginia, FINE, Rizla, Blu, Pulze, Skruf, and Zone. In addition, it engages in the distribution of tobacco and NGP products for tobacco and NGP product manufacturers; and various non-tobacco and NGP products and services. Further, the company is involved in the management of a golf course; distribution of pharmaceuticals, POS software, and published materials and other products; printing and publishing activities; and provision of long haul transportation, industrial parcel and express delivery, pharmaceutical products logistics, advertising, payment, freight forwarding, and support management services, as well as owns the trademarks; and retails its products. Additionally, it engages in edition and distribution of books and non-periodical publication. Furthermore, the company is involved in research and development of e-vapour products. The company was formerly known as Imperial Tobacco Group PLC and changed its name to Imperial Brands PLC in February 2016. Imperial Brands PLC was founded in 1636 and is based in Bristol, the United Kingdom.

Imperial Brands PLC is headquartered in GB.

Imperial Brands PLC (IMBBF) stock trades at $37.34 with a market capitalization of $28.50B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 12.52, price-to-book of 5.24, price-to-sales of 1.05. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $34.95 and $47.18, and currently trades 20.9% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 6.03%.

On profitability, Imperial Brands PLC generates a return on equity (ROE) of 39.24% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 21.66%, an operating margin of 18.17%, a net profit margin of 8.96%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Imperial Brands PLC reported annual revenue of $32.2B, net profit of $2.1B, revenue has compounded at -0.2% a year over the last five years, profit at 6.7% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.78 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 0.70, total assets of $28.7B, $1.4B in cash and equivalents.

IMBBF has an average daily trading volume of 5,434 shares, a beta of 0.14 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.imperialbrandsplc.com