Currently, there are 1.69B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.69B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -7.26% and 4.74% over the past three months. MO shares are trading 6.44% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 34.02% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $40.65 and touched a high of $60.18 over the same period. MO has an average intraday trading volume of 9.69 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 -3.90%, -0.18%, and 5.75% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Altria Group Inc (NYSE: MO) shares accounts for 61.02% of the company’s 1.69B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $94.10B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.64. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 8.50, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $6.55. The company has a PEG of 2.42 and a Quick Ratio of 0.39. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 4.56% over the week and 2.29% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Altria Group Inc (MO) will achieve an EPS of 1.19 for the current quarter, 1.37 for the next quarter and 5.5 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.14 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.14. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 1.15 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 4.06%, and 3.51% over the next financial year.
Morgan Stanley coverage for the Altria Group Inc (MO) stock in a research note released on January 16, 2025 offered a Equal-Weight rating with a price target of $54. BofA Securities was of a view on December 06, 2024 that the stock is Buy, while Citigroup gave the stock Neutral rating on October 08, 2024, issuing a price target of $44.50- $48. UBS on their part issued Sell rating on January 23, 2024.
