Imperial Brands (IMBN) Stock Price & Analysis
IMBN Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- MXN 585.00 - MXN 585.00
- 52-Week Range
- MXN 585.00 - MXN 744.73
- Previous Close
- MXN 585.00
- Volume
- 0
- Average Volume (3M)
- 0
- Market Cap
- MXN 552.74B
- Enterprise Value
- MXN 35.73B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- MXN 497.00M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- MXN 11.23B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 13.8
- Beta
- 0.00
- Next Earnings
- Nov 17, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 48.66
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 7.53%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Cash Generation
Recent cash generation and 98% conversion show the core business can turn earnings into funding for dividends, investment, and debt reduction. Maintaining at least GBP 2.2bn of annual FCF would provide resilience and support capital allocation through the next several quarters.
NGP Growth
Progress in next-generation products provides a structural growth avenue alongside the mature combustible portfolio. Share gains across categories and profitable European NGP contribution suggest improving scale, product acceptance, and the potential for a more balanced long-term revenue mix.
Efficiency Programme
The committed savings programme can support margins even when tobacco volumes decline, making profitability less dependent on price increases alone. Factory rationalisation and manufacturing efficiencies should improve the cost base and strengthen operating leverage over the strategic period.
Bears Say
High Leverage
Higher leverage reduces financial flexibility and leaves more operating cash committed to debt obligations rather than growth or shareholder returns. The low equity ratio increases sensitivity to weaker earnings or cash flow, making balance-sheet management an important constraint over the coming periods.
Australia Volume Decline
A decline of this magnitude can erode local revenue and profit faster than pricing or cost actions can compensate, while resizing takes time to complete. Although management expects a smaller drag after annualisation, the episode highlights ongoing pressure on combustible volumes in some markets.
Legal Settlement Outflows
The remaining settlement payments create a defined multi-year cash obligation that will reduce free cash flow available for investment, debt reduction, or capital returns. These outflows also make reported cash generation less representative of the operating business during the payment period.
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Company Description
Imperial Brands
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.
- Sector
- Consumerdefensive
- Industry
- Tobacco
- CEO
- Lukas Jean-Baptiste Paravicini
- Employees
- 25,100
- Website
- www.imperialbrandsplc.com
- Address
- 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol, BI, BS3 2LL, GB
Imperial Brands (IMBN) Earnings & Revenues
IMBN Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call presented several concrete operational and financial positives: strong cash generation (GBP 2.6bn over 12 months), high operating cash conversion (98%), confirmed full-year guidance, disciplined pricing that offset volume declines, regional profit growth (Europe +6.5%, AAAACE ex-Australia +10.8%), and measurable strategic transformation progress with committed efficiency targets (GBP 320m). These positives were tempered by identifiable near-term headwinds and one-off costs ( > GBP 50m in H1), a notable H1 shortfall in NGP versus in-year expectations due to promotional timing (NGP losses increased ~GBP 13m in U.S.), accelerated Australia volume declines (~50%) and cash payments related to a legal settlement (GBP 150m in H1 plus GBP 162m to follow). Management reiterated confidence in H2 step-up and maintained guidance. Overall, the weight of the highlights (strong cash, confirmed guidance, clear transformation actions, and NGP market share gains) outweighs the lowlights, which are characterized as manageable, mostly one-off or timing-related, and addressable over H2–FY27.
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Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| Technical Analysis | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Moving Averages | 2 | 0 | 10 |
