British American Tobacco rises Friday, still underperforms market

British American Tobacco PLC BATS, shares inched up 0.43% to £23.17 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the FTSE 100 Index UKX, rising 0.54% to 7,554.47. British American Tobacco PLC closed £10.59 short of its 52-week high (£33.76), which the company reached on January 4. Trading volume (3.8 M) remained 103,506 below its 50-day average volume of 3.9 M. Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See...