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Altria · February 2019
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Imagine you already own shares of this company.
Everything on this page is limited to information available on February 1, 2019.
The situation
- Date
- February 1, 2019
- You own
- Shares of Altria
- Period
- 2 years, until February 2021
Decide what to do with your shares.
The company at the time
Altria sells Marlboro and other cigarettes in the United States. Fewer people smoke every year, so the number of cigarettes it sells keeps falling, but regular price increases have kept revenue roughly flat. The business produces a lot of cash and pays a large dividend: at today's price, about 6.5% of the share price a year. In December, Altria paid $12.8 billion for 35% of Juul, the leading e-cigarette company, just as U.S. regulators were moving to limit vaping by teenagers, and it also agreed to invest $1.8 billion in Cronos, a cannabis company. The share price has fallen by about 30% over the past year. Profit in the figures below includes large one-time gains, including from the 2017 U.S. tax reform, so the P/E looks lower than it otherwise would.
Information available at the time
The same numbers as on company pages, as they had been reported by February 1, 2019. Sector medians aren't shown because StockLab doesn't have them as they stood back then.
Revenue, growth, profit and cash flow are for fiscal year 2017 (ended December 2017), the latest full year in an annual report filed by then; cash and debt come from the latest report (its date is on the card). Results announced after that aren't in these cards yet, even if the story above mentions them, so their numbers can differ.
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$49.20
Close on Feb 1, 2019
$92.4B
5-year trends
Annual figures, fiscal years 2013-2017.
Stock price
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What would you do?
No virtual money and no score. After you choose, you'll see what happened and a review of the reasoning.