During the last session, Philip Morris International Inc (NYSE:PM)’s traded shares were 5.12 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.64. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $89.48, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.69% or -$0.62. The 52-week high for the PM share is $101.92, that puts it down -13.9 from that peak though still a striking 2.51% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $87.23. The company’s market capitalization is $138.91B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 6.68 million shares, and the average trade volume was 5.46 million shares over the past three months.
Philip Morris International Inc (NYSE:PM) trade information
Philip Morris International Inc (PM) registered a -0.69% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.69% in intraday trading to $89.48, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -2.34%, and it has moved by -1.77% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -8.26%. The short interest in Philip Morris International Inc (NYSE:PM) is 6.7 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.27 day(s) to cover.
Philip Morris International Inc (PM) estimates and forecasts
Statistics show that Philip Morris International Inc has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Philip Morris International Inc (PM) shares have gone down -2.03% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 6.32% against 1.80. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to grow 14.60% this quarter and then jump 2.50% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 5.60% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be $8.46 billion as predicted by 8 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 8 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to $9.35 billion by the end of Jun 2024. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled $8.11 billion and $8.65 billion respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 4.30% and then jump by 8.10% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -0.25%. While earnings are projected to return 6.45% in 2024, the next five years will return 10.16% per annum.
PM Dividends
Philip Morris International Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on April 23. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Philip Morris International Inc is 5.17, with the dividend yield indicating at 5.78 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.
Philip Morris International Inc (NYSE:PM)’s Major holders
Philip Morris International Inc insiders own 0.18% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 79.59%, with the float percentage being 79.73%. Vanguard Group Inc is the largest shareholder of the company, while 2,587 institutions own stock in it. As of Jun 29, 2023, the company held over 135.85 million shares (or 8.75% of all shares), a total value of $13.26 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 116.19 million shares, is of Capital World Investors’s that is approximately 7.48% of outstanding shares. At the market price on Jun 29, 2023, these shares were valued at $11.34 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Philip Morris International Inc (PM) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and American Balanced Fund. Data provided on Jun 29, 2023 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 48.41 million shares. This amounts to just over 3.12 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $4.73 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 41.89 million, or about 2.70% of the stock, which is worth about $3.88 billion.
