In last trading session, Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) saw 7.05 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.62. Company’s recent per share price level of $58.86 trading at $0.38 or 0.65% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $99.15B. That closing price of MO’s stock is at a discount of -4.08% from its 52-week high price of $61.26 and is indicating a premium of 19.18% from its 52-week low price of $47.57. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 10.08 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 8.68 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Altria Group Inc (MO), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.88. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 11 analysts covering the stock, 2 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 5 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 1.39 in the current quarter.
Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 0.65%, in the last five days MO remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 07/16/25 when the stock touched $58.86 price level, adding 0.19% to its value on the day. Altria Group Inc’s shares saw a change of 23.32% in year-to-date performance and have moved 1.92% in past 5-day. Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) showed a performance of -1.59% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 38.11 million shares which calculate 5.06 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 53 to the stock, which implies a fall of -11.06% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 46 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 60. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 21.85% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 21.85% for stock’s current value.
Altria Group Inc (MO) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -1.65% from the last financial year’s standing.
7 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 5.21B for the same. And 7 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 5.28B in the next quarter. Company posted 5.28B and 5.34B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 5.17% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 3.76%.
MO Dividends
Altria Group Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-29 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 6.93%, the share has a forward dividend of 4.08 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 7.91%.
Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.10% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 63.21 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 63.28%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 63.21% institutions for Altria Group Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at MO for having 156.12 million shares of worth $7.11 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.0873 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 125.5 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 7.3048 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $5.72 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 53.38 shares of worth $3.14 billion or 3.17% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 47.09 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $2.77 billion in the company or a holder of 2.80% of company’s stock.
