Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) has a beta value of 0.62 and has seen 1.58 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $97.43B, closed the recent trade at $57.84 per share which meant it gained $0.04 on the day or 0.07% during that session. The MO stock price is -5.91% off its 52-week high price of $61.26 and 18.55% above the 52-week low of $47.11. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 10.4 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 8.68 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Altria Group Inc (MO) is Hold stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.88. 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 5 out of 11 have rated it as a Hold, with 4 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 1.39.
Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) trade information
Sporting 0.07% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the MO stock price touched $57.84 or saw a rise of 4.05%. Year-to-date, Altria Group Inc shares have moved 23.25%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -4.00%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) have changed -3.45%. Short interest in the company has seen 38.11 million shares shorted with days to cover at 5.06.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $53, which means that the shares’ value could drop -9.13% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $46.0 while the price target rests at a high of $60.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -3.73% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 20.47% from the levels at last check today..
Altria Group Inc (MO) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 12.34% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -1.65%.
7 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 5.21B for the current quarter. 7 have an estimated revenue figure of 5.28B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 5.28B and 5.34B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -1.33% for the current quarter and -1.65% for the next.
Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 5.17% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 3.76%.
MO Dividends
Altria Group Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-29 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 4.08 at a share yield of 7.05%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 7.91%.
Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.10% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 63.21% with a share float percentage of 63.28%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Altria Group Inc having a total of 2665.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 156.12 million shares worth more than $7.11 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.0873% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 125.5 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $5.72 billion and represent 7.3048% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.17% shares in the company for having 53.38 shares of worth $3.07 billion while later fund manager owns 47.09 shares of worth $2.71 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.80% of company’s outstanding stock.
