How is Altria (MO) doing?

Altria is a company in the tobacco industry, based in Richmond, VA, worth $119.7B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Weak

Altria shares are up 10% over the past year, 5 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Hot Hand. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 55th percentile on market beat, the 8th on staying power and the 50th on business growth. It appears on 7 of our dashboards, including 4th on “Which companies raise their dividend every year?”.

$71.68+10% in a yearWorth $119.7B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

MO against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Altria +10%, the S&P 500 +16%.

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What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Hot Hand

BeatingErraticGrowingBought

Beating the market on a growing business with buyers adding, but its rank swings from week to week.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Hot Hand this month; Broken Year before that.

Also Hot Hand (59 in all): KO · KDP · PM · TIGO · DXCM · CAH

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Staples / low-vol, 35 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Consumer staples and low-vol dividend payers — the bond proxy.

MO, past year+10%10 of 35 in the group

Rest of the group−7%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Altria is +10% over the past year, against −7% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 10th of 35 in Staples / low-vol.

MORest of the group

Best in the groupIRDM Iridium Communications+140%KO Coca-Cola+33%PM Philip Morris International+30%

Worst in the groupFLO Flowers Foods−54%CPB Campbell's−37%GIS General Mills−35%

Its closest rivalsPM Philip Morris International+30%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Altria typically moves 1.9% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 90% of large US stocks.

Typical day1.9%about $1.38 a share

Its usual2.1%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5001.9×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±3.8%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−18%now 4% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks-60%of the index’s fall, three years; beta -0.1

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.08%

MO on our dashboards

Every question where Altria appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with MO highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Is the market rewarding earnings beats? Earnings	–Miss	58 of 60	Surprise −1% · Move vs S&P −11.2% · Reported 2026-07-30
Which stocks hold up when the market falls? Leading stocks	99Holds up	6 of 60	Down capture -60% · Up capture 5% · Beta -0.09
Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality	97Excellent	11 of 60	Return on capital 43% · Gross margin 71% · Cash margin 38%
Which companies get the most from each employee? Business quality	98Lean	9 of 60	Revenue / employee $3.7M · Profit / employee $1.3M · Value / employee $23.3M
Who is spending big on expansion? Business quality	97Ramping	11 of 60	Capex, 1Y +126% · A year $335.0M · % of revenue 2%
Which S&P 500 stocks pay the highest dividends? Dividends and buybacks	77Stretched	12 of 60	Yield 6.2% · Dividend growth, 5Y +4% a yr · Per share 4.29
Which companies raise their dividend every year? Dividends and buybacks	99Decades	4 of 60	Years raised 55+ years · Growth, 5Y +4% a yr · Yield 6.5%

Go deeper on Stox

MO’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see MO’s full profile on Stox.

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