Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO): Think Like A Lender, Not An Investor

Altria Group Inc. (NYSE:MO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 9.11M but it saw 9907929 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 85.92B USD, the company’s current market price of $50.02 came rising about 2.06 while comparing to the previous closing price of $49.01. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $50.85 and as low as $39.06.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Altria Group Inc. (MO) gives us an average price of $48.64, while its current price level is -1.63% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 28.04% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $47.00 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $43.10. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.78% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.50%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 64.70 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

UBS issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $38.

Over the week, MO’s stock price is moving 0.44% up while it is 8.62% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 24.00% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 10.71%.

Currently, Altria Group Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.76B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 42.42%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 10.48 while having a 9.42 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.69. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 4.20. Its return on asset (ROA) is 23.06% on average.