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IMB

IMB

Imperial Brands PLC · Consumer Defensive

UK StocksTobaccoLSEGBp-32.1% from ATH
Current Price

$2,791.00

Drawdown from ATH

-32.1%

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

D

Weak

Graded against IMB's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: IMB's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.

What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days-0.89%
May 1Jun 15
About IMB

Imperial Brands PLC

Imperial Brands PLC, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, imports, markets, and sells tobacco and tobacco-related products in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Asia, Australasia, and internationally. It offers a range of cigarettes, tobacco accessories, vapour, heated tobacco, and oral nicotine. The company sells its products under various brands, including JPS, Davidoff, Gauloises, West, Winston, Kool, Lambert & Butler, P&S, Fortuna, Nobel, News, Backwoods, Champion, Golden Virginia, F

The reading

How Dipsern reads IMB right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is IMB doing right now?

In plain terms: IMB is 32.1% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

Right now IMB — Imperial Brands plc — is in a deep drawdown, down 32.1% from its record high. Last price: $2,791. Asset price action of this severity has historically marked attractive entry zones — but only when fundamentals weren't permanently impaired. The historical median return below quantifies that pattern for IMB specifically.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

Across all available history, IMB has spent enough trading days in the 35%-to-30% drawdown band to build a large sample (295 observations). Dipsern segments these by drawdown depth and computes the rolling median forward 90-day return — that median is the primary signal you see in the full app, and it's substantially more robust than mean-based forecasts because it ignores fat-tail outliers in both directions.

Interpretation

What this means for IMB

Drawdown-based signals work across asset classes but the magnitude of meaningful moves varies. Dipsern computes the segmentation per-asset so the bands are calibrated to IMB's own volatility history. Below 20% drawdowns the historical median forward return often becomes attractive — but with rising variance. The win-rate column in the segments table is more useful than the median at this depth.

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Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for IMB. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-75% to -70%6
-70% to -65%129
-65% to -60%360
-60% to -55%396
-55% to -50%312
-50% to -45%184
-45% to -40%120
-40% to -35%270
-35% to -30%Current295
-30% to -25%276
-25% to -20%478
-20% to -15%581
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of IMB's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.

Years of history

40+

Drawdown bands

20

Look-ahead bias

None

Data sources

4

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Signal computed Jun 17, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.