Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
| Previous Close | 51.09 |
| Open | 51.38 |
| Bid | 51.04 x 1400 |
| Ask | 51.20 x 1000 |
| Day's Range | 50.60 - 51.80 |
| 52 Week Range | 42.53 - 57.05 |
| Volume | |
| Avg. Volume | 9,964,286 |
| Market Cap | 93.852B |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 0.61 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 34.20 |
| EPS (TTM) | 1.49 |
| Earnings Date | Apr 27, 2022 - May 02, 2022 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 3.60 (6.79%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Mar 24, 2022 |
| 1y Target Est | 56.98 |
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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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4 Top Dividend Payers of the S&P 500
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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3 Takeaways From Philip Morris' $16 Billion Merger with Swedish Match
Tobacco giant Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) is making a splash with a blockbuster deal earlier this month to acquire Swedish Match (OTC: SWMAF) for $16 billion in an all-cash arrangement. Swedish Match is a fellow nicotine-products company, most famous for its Zyn nicotine pouches, a smokeless nicotine product. Philip Morris has a market cap of $160 billion, so this deal is pretty significant and could have some short- and long-term ramifications for shareholders.
