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Friday, August 14, 2026

Subject of the day

IMB.L

Concerning the House

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.

United Kingdom · www.imperialbrandsplc.com

Quotation

$2,643.00

+45.00 (+1.7%)

52w hi$3,340.10
52w lo$2,598.00
Vol2.34M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.47

Short-0.46
Medium-0.59
Long-0.26

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Imperial Brands PLC

Consumer Defensive · Tobacco

Market cap$20.12B
Enterprise value$31.92B
Trailing P/E12.41x
Forward P/E7.21x
EV / EBITDA7.95x
P / S (ttm)1.04x
Profit margin9.0%
Return on equity37.2%
Revenue growth+4.9%
Earnings growth-38.2%
Debt / equity243.80
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX-0.13
Corr SPX-0.11
Annual vol20.4%
Annual ret+16.3%
Sharpe0.80
Max DD-20.2%

Window: 504 trading days (491 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.24
Sector+0.02
Technical-0.26
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$2,602.00$2,643.00$2,592.00$2,643.002.34M
Aug 12$2,643.00$2,656.00$2,595.00$2,598.002.10M
Aug 11$2,659.00$2,683.00$2,617.00$2,628.002.84M
Aug 10$2,787.00$2,789.00$2,613.00$2,664.006.20M
Aug 7$2,750.00$2,799.00$2,750.00$2,791.001.01M