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IMB.LSE Imperial Brands PLC
LSE GBP Consumer Defensive
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As of 30 Oct 2026
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Market facts
- Market cap
- 22B
- P/E ratio
- 13.79
- Analyst target
- 3180.909
- Dividend yield
- 5.6%
- Beta
- 0.15
Profile
Instrument facts
- Exchange
- LSE
- Currency
- GBP
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Tobacco
- ISIN
- GB0004544929
- Market cap
- 22B
- P/E ratio
- 13.79
- Analyst target
- 3180.909
- Dividend yield
- 5.6%
- Beta
- 0.15
About
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.
Research context
Imperial Brands PLC appears in PyInvesting’s London Stock catalogue. The price history above describes this recorded instrument; it does not by itself identify a company’s business or establish a continuous investment return.
- Currency
- GBP
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Tobacco
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5 years, 6 months ago
Imperial Brands PLC is currently in a long term downtrend where the price is trading 29.4% below its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 100.0% cheaper than other stocks from the Consumer Defensive sector with a price to sales ratio of 0.4.
Imperial Brands PLC's total revenue sank by 0.0% to $4B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has dropped by 0.0% to $166M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow grew by 22.9% to $2B since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Imperial Brands PLC gets an overall score of 2/5.