Currently, there are 1.79B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.76B shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 45 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 31 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 316,377 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 14 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 105,198 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 40.62, up 0.17%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -0.74% and -1.11% over the past three months. MO shares are trading -0.22% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -15.08% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $39.06 and touched a high of $48.11 over the same period. MO has an average intraday trading volume of 9.12 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -0.44%, -1.54%, and -6.16% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) shares accounts for 57.86% of the company’s 1.79B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $70.98B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.68. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 8.82, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.56. The company has a PEG of 3.15 and a Quick Ratio of 0.39. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.11% over the week and 1.31% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Altria Group Inc. (MO) will achieve an EPS of $1.15 for the current quarter, $1.32 for the next quarter and $5.25 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $1.12 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $1.19. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $1.18 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 2.09%, and 3.79% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 2.80% over the next five years, compared to 4.41% over the past 5-year period.
Stifel coverage for the Altria Group Inc. (MO) stock in a research note released on April 14, 2023 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $52. UBS was of a view on November 10, 2022 that the stock is Sell, while Barclays gave the stock Underweight rating on June 29, 2022, issuing a price target of $53- $36. Morgan Stanley on their part issued Equal-Weight rating on June 24, 2022.
