Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -0.09% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $58.25.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $58.30, falling within a range of $58.09 and $58.56. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.606 whereas the PE ratio is 8.89 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $59.67, and the low was $40.65. On the whole, MO has fluctuated by 5.76% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Altria Group Inc currently standing at about $98.48 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 4.04, with its dividend yield at 6.94%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 20.31B, with a low estimate of 4.59B and a high estimate of 4.68B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 4.64B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that MO’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.41, with the price of MO currently trading nearly 0.75% and 5.87% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 59.01, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.39% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.84%. Furthermore, Altria Group Inc (MO)’s beta value is 0.61, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.00.
A comparison of Altria Group Inc (MO) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. MO showed an intraday change of -0.09% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 35.09%%.
Data on historical trading for Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 11.53 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 8.73 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 1.69 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.15% of Altria Group Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 61.02% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 41.93 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 4.34. According to the data, the short interest in Altria Group Inc (MO) stood at 248.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 34.08 million. The stock has risen by 11.40% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the MO stock heading into the next quarter.
