Lukas Paravicini Sells 6,639 Shares of Imperial Brands PLC (LON:IMB) Stock

Imperial Brands PLC (LON:IMB) insider Lukas Paravicini sold 6,639 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 2,615 ($32.68), for a total value of £173,609.85 ($216,985.19).

Imperial Brands Price Performance

Imperial Brands stock opened at GBX 2,572 ($32.15) on Friday. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 2,411.92 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 2,200.95. Imperial Brands PLC has a one year low of GBX 1,662 ($20.77) and a one year high of GBX 2,636 ($32.95). The company has a market capitalization of £21.70 billion, a PE ratio of 1,118.26, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 16.51 and a beta of 0.42. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 217.64, a current ratio of 0.64 and a quick ratio of 0.41.

Imperial Brands Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 31st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 20th will be issued a GBX 54.26 ($0.68) dividend. This is a positive change from Imperial Brands’s previous dividend of $22.45. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 20th. This represents a dividend yield of 2.43%. Imperial Brands’s dividend payout ratio is presently 6,652.17%.

About Imperial Brands

Imperial Brands PLC, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, imports, markets, and sells tobacco and tobacco-related products in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. 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, Fortuna, Nobel, News, Backwoods, Champion, Golden Virginia, Rizla, Blu, Pulze, Skruf, and Zone X.