MO News and Press, Altria Group Inc. From 07/06/24

2024-07-06 10:27:12 ET Summary A weekly summary of dividend activity for Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers. Companies which changed their dividends. Companies with upcoming ex-dividend dates. Companies with upcoming pay dates. Introduction The D...

2024-07-06 04:14:00 ET Dividend investors often get so enamored of a high yield that they overlook a company's underlying problems. That is quite possibly what happened with Altria (NYSE: MO) in the first half of 2024, a period in which the stock rose 13%, roughly matching the gain ...

2024-07-05 15:56:25 ET Summary Altria has an impressively long and consistent dividend growth record. Altria's stock price has been stagnant, but the company offers a high dividend yield for investors getting in at these levels. The company's dividend growth has been consisten...

2024-07-05 08:10:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 currently yields just 1.2%, a level that may not be suitable for most income investors. In this article, I present 2 higher yielding stocks that are either reasonably valued or undervalued. Both carry strong balance sheets, pay we...

2024-07-05 07:00:00 ET Summary The Terrific Ten companies generated 76% of the market's gains in the year's first half, raising concerns about market bubbles. Altria stock is up year-to-date, outperforming the S&P. Altria's long-term thesis remains solid. Its focus on a sm...

2024-07-05 04:07:00 ET Altria Group (NYSE: MO) has been mainly known as a purveyor of cigarettes. That's a tough business as people become more health-conscious and regulators aren't fond of cigarette manufacturers. Yet Altria just got the green light from federal regulators to ...

2024-07-05 03:36:00 ET Want to protect your portfolio from a bear market? Want huge dividend income? You can get both by buying shares of nicotine producers Altria Group (NYSE: MO) and British American Tobacco (NYSE: BTI) . Few stocks offer this much downside protection ...

2024-07-04 08:49:00 ET Tobacco giant Altria Group (NYSE: MO) is one of the best-performing stocks of all time, but slowing growth has reduced it to a high-yield income specialist that has badly lagged the broader market for the past decade. The good news is that recent developme...

2024-07-04 07:15:00 ET Ultra-high-yield dividend stocks, or companies with annualized payouts above the 5% mark, tend to underperform the broader markets over periods of less than five years. The core reason is that an elevated yield often indicates a company is facing a major headwind. ...

2024-07-03 18:48:00 ET The stock market has enjoyed an impressive rally so far in 2024. The S&P 500 index has risen 14.5%, and the even more technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite has risen 18% across the stretch. Thanks to encouraging earnings results and excitement surrounding arti...