Imperial Brands PLC (IMBBY) Stock

About Imperial Brands PLC

Imperial Brands PLC, along with its various subsidiaries, operates globally, primarily focusing on the manufacturing, sourcing, marketing, and sale of tobacco and related products across continents including Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. Its extensive product portfolio encompasses traditional tobacco items such as cigarettes, fine cut and smokeless tobacco, rolling papers, and cigars. Additionally, the company maintains a significant presence in the "Next Generation Products" (NGPs) market, offering innovations like e-vapour devices, oral nicotine products, and heated tobacco. These diverse products are sold under numerous well-recognized brands, a selection of which includes Davidoff, Gauloises, JPS, Winston, blu, Golden Virginia, and Dutch Masters. Beyond its own production, Imperial Brands also functions as a distributor for other manufacturers' tobacco and NGP offerings, and handles a wide range of non-tobacco and non-NGP merchandise and services. Its operations extend further into diversified activities such as managing a golf course, distributing pharmaceuticals and point-of-sale (POS) software, engaging in printing and publishing, and providing various logistical services including long-haul transportation, industrial parcel and express delivery, advertising, and general management support. The company also holds ownership of its extensive trademarks and directly retails its products. Originally founded in 1901, the enterprise was formerly known as Imperial Tobacco Group PLC until its official rebranding to Imperial Brands PLC in February 2016. Its corporate headquarters are situated in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Imperial Brands PLC is headquartered in GB.

Imperial Brands PLC (IMBBY) stock trades at $36.09 with a market capitalization of $27.71B. 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 $35.36 and $45.60, and currently trades 20.9% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 6.29%.

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.

IMBBY has an average daily trading volume of 231,631 shares, a beta of 0.14 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.imperialbrandsplc.com