Short Interest in Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (OTCMKTS:IMBBY) Decreases By 61.2%

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (OTCMKTS:IMBBY) was the target of a large drop in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 22,993 shares, a drop of 61.2% from the December 15th total of 59,250 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 165,282 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.1 days. Currently, 0.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. Currently, 0.0% of the shares of the company are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 165,282 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 0.1 days.

Imperial Tobacco Group Stock Performance

OTCMKTS:IMBBY traded up $0.09 on Thursday, hitting $40.91. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 76,997 shares, compared to its average volume of 139,720. Imperial Tobacco Group has a one year low of $31.45 and a one year high of $44.23. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $42.26 and a two-hundred day moving average of $41.28. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.57, a current ratio of 0.74 and a quick ratio of 0.37.

Imperial Tobacco Group Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, January 8th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 1st were issued a dividend of $0.517 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, November 28th. This represents a yield of 537.0%.

About Imperial Tobacco Group

Imperial Tobacco Group, historically established in the United Kingdom in 1901 and now operating under the Imperial Brands name, is a multinational tobacco and nicotine company headquartered in Bristol, England. The company’s core business is the manufacture, marketing and sale of tobacco products and alternative nicotine offerings to adult consumers. It supplies products through a combination of owned channels and third-party distributors and focuses on managing an international portfolio of consumer tobacco and nicotine brands.

Product categories include manufactured cigarettes, cigars and fine-cut tobacco for roll-your-own use, together with a growing range of next-generation nicotine products such as vaping devices, heated tobacco and non-combustible nicotine formats that reflect a strategic shift toward reduced-risk alternatives.