Dividends

BTIBritish American Tobacco

StockNYSEUnited KingdomConsumer staplesEU retail: available
5/10
Trailing 12-month yieldi
5.74%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
5.89%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$3.25
Payments per year
4
Dividend safetyi
39 / 100
Unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
5.74% → 4.73%
Forward
5.89% → 4.85%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (United States)
15.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
82.35%
  • Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
  • GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.

Cyprus resident, domiciled: 4.73%

Estimate, not tax advice: published rules as of 2026-10-14 for the profile chosen; your broker’s withholding and your own situation can differ. How we estimate tax

Next payment

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Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+2.2%
Years of dividend growth
3
Years without a cut
10
Payout ratio (earnings)
93%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
90%

Annual total differs from the company's SEC filing

Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.

Caution:Dividend cut riskDividend Safety below 40 points.

Caution:Payout above earningsDividends exceed earnings or free cash flow.

Sources disagreeDividend or fundamental sources disagree beyond tolerance.

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2017 $2.80, 2018 $2.72, 2019 $2.70, 2020 $2.71, 2021 $2.98, 2022 $2.96, 2023 $2.80, 2024 $2.97, 2025 $3.002017: $2.802018: $2.722019: $2.702020: $2.712021: $2.982022: $2.962023: $2.802024: $2.972025: $3.00

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Ex-dividend datePayment dateAmount per shareTypeStatusFeeds
02 Oct 2026—$0.835RegularSingle source2
10 Jul 2026—$0.835RegularSingle source2
27 Mar 2026—$0.835RegularSingle source2
30 Dec 2025—$0.749RegularSingle source2

Each payment is checked against up to 2 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.

What dividend safety is made of

0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, growth streak and how stretched the yield looks.

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