Advertisement
Singapore markets close in 24 minutes

  • Straits Times Index

    3,177.88
    -9.78 (-0.31%)
     

  • Nikkei

    37,068.35
    -1,011.35 (-2.66%)
     

  • Hang Seng

    16,224.14
    -161.73 (-0.99%)
     

  • FTSE 100

    7,838.14
    -38.91 (-0.49%)
     

  • Bitcoin USD

    64,279.62
    +2,838.95 (+4.62%)
     

  • CMC Crypto 200

    1,337.57
    +24.95 (+1.90%)
     

  • S&P 500

    5,011.12
    -11.09 (-0.22%)
     

  • Dow

    37,775.38
    +22.07 (+0.06%)
     

  • Nasdaq

    15,601.50
    -81.87 (-0.52%)
     

  • Gold

    2,395.50
    -2.50 (-0.10%)
     

  • Crude Oil

    82.93
    +0.20 (+0.24%)
     

  • 10-Yr Bond

    4.6470
    0.0000 (0.00%)
     

  • FTSE Bursa Malaysia

    1,550.72
    +5.96 (+0.39%)
     

  • Jakarta Composite Index

    7,090.57
    -76.24 (-1.06%)
     

  • PSE Index

    6,443.00
    -80.19 (-1.23%)
     

BAT sticks to earnings forecast, flags first signs of sales weakness

Reuters
Pall Mall cigarettes are seen after the manufacturing process in the British American Tobacco Cigarette Factory (BAT) in Bayreuth

(Reuters) - British American Tobacco said on Thursday it was maintaining its guidance of high single figure earnings per share growth for 2020 while expecting some impact on volume and revenue growth in the second-quarter due to the coronavirus.

The world's No. 2 tobacco company expects 2020 constant currency adjusted revenue growth around the low end of the 3% to 5% range and will continue with its dividend pay-out ratio of 65% of adjusted diluted EPS and growth, it said.

(Reporting by Tanishaa Nadkar in Bengaluru; editing by Patrick Graham)