British American Tobacco (LSE:BATS) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio: (As of Sep. 20, 2026)

British American Tobacco  (LSE:BATS) Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PB Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of book value during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio should give similar results to regular PB Ratio.

British American Tobacco Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Related Terms

The historical data trend for British American Tobacco's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

British American Tobacco Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Chart

British American Tobacco Annual Data
	Trend	Dec16	Dec17	Dec18	Dec19	Dec20	Dec21	Dec22	Dec23	Dec24	Dec25
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1.62	1.54	0.95	1.08	1.43

British American Tobacco Semi-Annual Data
	Dec16	Jun17	Dec17	Jun18	Dec18	Jun19	Dec19	Jun20	Dec20	Jun21	Dec21	Jun22	Dec22	Jun23	Dec23	Jun24	Dec24	Jun25	Dec25	Jun26
Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.99	1.11	1.26	1.47	1.56

LSE:BATS vs PM, MO, TPB: Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Comparison

For the Tobacco subindustry, British American Tobacco's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

British American Tobacco Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio vs Tobacco Products Industry

For the Tobacco Products industry and Consumer Defensive sector, British American Tobacco's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where British American Tobacco's Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio falls into.

British American Tobacco Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio takes the Book Value per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/B calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPB Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted PB Ratio.

British American Tobacco's Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec25 is calculated as:

For example, British American Tobacco's adjusted Book Value per Share data for the fiscal year that ended in Dec25 was:

Current CPI (Dec25) = 139.9000.

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Add all the adjusted book value per share together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted Book per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.

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