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...At BAT, which now owns Reynolds American, LTIPs can be worth 500 per cent of the chief executive’s pay....
...“The lower tax rate is a nice extra and should drive up consensus EPS [by] mid-single digits even if adjusted profit-before-tax estimates are unchanged.”...
...Shares in Reynolds already trade at around 21 times earnings....
...“[BAT] offer investors a combination of strong brands, good management and resilient EPS and dividend per share growth,” they said in a note....
...Japan Tobacco, long considered its most likely acquirer, has expressed reservations about entering the US market, which Imperial flagged as one of its key growth areas after buying Reynolds American’s divested...
...David Crow EARNINGS BlackBerry Q2 -$0.09 (-$0.02) Results forecasts, from Thomson Reuters, are for fully diluted, post-tax EPS in local currency for the stated fiscal period....
...That compares with adjusted EPS of 84.2p in 2012. Analysts had expected about 75p....
...British American had been ramping up buybacks, until its recent investment in Reynolds American. Quitting will be hard. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...“As seems to be the DMGT way, the operating income and EPS dynamics at the results [were] better than expected,” said David Reynolds, an analyst at Jefferies....
...“Depending on the range of cost synergies, we could see this acquisition offering 12-15 per cent EPS accretion versus our 2015 forecasts,” said house broker Morgan Stanley....
...The female foil on “Dyma Lythyr” (“Here’s a Letter”) is Bethan Reynolds. Hear more from the album at huwm.bandcamp.com....
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