Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
After hours:
| Previous Close | 54.50 |
| Open | 54.62 |
| Bid | 54.37 x 3200 |
| Ask | 54.60 x 1200 |
| Day's Range | 54.11 - 54.76 |
| 52 Week Range | 42.53 - 57.05 |
| Volume | |
| Avg. Volume | 9,909,446 |
| Market Cap | 98.549B |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 0.52 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 33.31 |
| EPS (TTM) | 1.63 |
| Earnings Date | Jul 28, 2022 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 3.60 (6.61%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Jun 14, 2022 |
| 1y Target Est | 56.83 |
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2 Dividend Kings That Are Soundly Beating the Market in 2022
Dividend stocks can be a great place to start looking. A couple of Dividend Kings that have been doing particularly well this year are AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Altria Group (NYSE: MO). AbbVie is a top healthcare stock that yields 3.7% annually, which is more than double the S&P 500 average of less than 1.4%.
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In periods of rising inflation and slowing economic growth, investors often turn to the stability and reliability of dividend stocks to see them through the tough times -- and with good reason. The asset managers at Hartford Funds studied the performance of the benchmark S&P 500 going all the way back to 1930, looking at stocks that pay dividends and those that don't, and found over that near-100-year period, dividend-paying stocks contributed 41% to the index's total return. It also includes the so-called "lost decade" of the 2000s, where the dot-com bubble, 9/11, and the financial markets collapse all conspired to generate negative returns for the S&P 500, but dividend stocks still gained 1.8%.
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