Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) price on Thursday, February 06, rose 0.11% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $52.64.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $52.58, moving within a range at $52.37 and $53.5. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.67 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 8.03. Turning to its 52-week performance, $58.03 and $39.25 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MO moved 1.06% over the past month.
Altria Group Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $89.21 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 4.00, with its dividend yield at 7.60%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that MO is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy category.
11 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 5 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 4 recommend MO as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 2 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 2.05, with MO’s current price about 1.49% and -1.76% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 51.55, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.88% and 1.84% in the 30-day chart. Further, Altria Group Inc (MO) has a beta value of 0.62, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.01. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $53, forecast between a low of $46 and high of $60. Looking at the price targets, the low is 12.61% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -13.98%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -0.68% jump to $53 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 9.01 over the past 10 days and 7.75 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 1.69 billion shares.
The 0.14% of Altria Group Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 60.58% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 30.61 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 3.82. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in Altria Group Inc (MO) stood at 180.99998999999997 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 28.34 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 0.67% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the MO stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
