Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.68% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $58.15.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $57.75, falling within a range of $57.51 and $58.4099. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.643 whereas the PE ratio is 9.73 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $61.26, and the low was $46.54. On the whole, MO has fluctuated by -1.57% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Altria Group Inc currently standing at about $97.94 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 4.08, with its dividend yield at 7.02%.
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 Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% 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 2.59, with the price of MO currently trading nearly -1.85% and -1.88% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 43.63, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.08% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.61%. Furthermore, Altria Group Inc (MO)’s beta value is 0.62.
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 0.68% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 11.20%%.
Data on historical trading for Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 9.42 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 8.66 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 1.69 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.14% of Altria Group Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 62.94% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 38.11 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 5.06. According to the data, the short interest in Altria Group Inc (MO) stood at 226.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 40.67 million. The stock has risen by 26.35% 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.
