News Sentiment

IMB sentiment intelligence

Imperial Brands PLC news scored across direct company coverage, industry context, sector read-through, source quality, and freshness.

Chart Weekly report Factors RSS feed
Weighted score 49 Balanced news tone 30 relevant articles
Exchange LSE United Kingdom
Sector Consumer Defensive Market context
Industry Tobacco Read-through group
Latest close 2732.00 Week of 19 Jun 2026
Weighted tone 49/100

Balanced news tone

Market reaction Balanced read

News tone and price action are not far from neutral.

Primary event Market update

76/100 classification confidence.

Company focus 27

directly relevant articles

Source quality 9

high-authority source matches

Trend context Trend inactive

-2.3% over one week, -2.3% over four weeks, trend inactive, and near fair-value range.

Latest direct headline Negative

Imperial Brands (LSE:IMB): Is This High-Yield Favourite Hiding a Bigger Risk?

Market Reaction

Balanced read

58/100 confidence

News tone and price action are not far from neutral.

Primary event Market update 76/100 classification
One-week reaction -2.3% Price reacting lower
Trend fit Trend inactive -2.3% over four weeks
Fair value 11.2% Near fair-value range

Sentiment Mix

Positive, neutral, negative

Weighted by relevance
Positive 10
Neutral 13
Negative 7

Relevance

Why the article matched

Direct first
Direct company coverage 27
Industry context 3
Sector context 0

Sources

Coverage mix

Publishers
AD HOC NEWS 5
Morningstar 5
Market source 4
simplywall.st 3
Seeking Alpha 3
The Armchair Trader 2
Kalkine Media 1
INDmoney 1

Event Lens

What the news is about

Classified themes
Market update 14
Capital return 6
Earnings 5
Guidance 4
Analyst action 1

Sentiment Trail

Score over time

50 baseline
Above 50 Neutral zone Below 50

News Tape

Relevant headlines

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