Altria Group Inc. (MO): Today's Featured Consumer Goods Winner
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) pushed the Consumer Goods sector higher today making it today's featured consumer goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Altria Group rose $0.55 (1.6%) to $36.04 on light volume. Throughout the day, 5,696,372 shares of Altria Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9,537,600 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $35.65-$36.17 after having opened the day at $35.75 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $35.49. Other companies within the Consumer Goods sector that increased today were:
Global-Tech Advanced Innovations
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), up 12.0%,
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), up 7.9%,
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), up 7.4% and
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), up 6.2%.
Altria Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, smokeless products, and wine in the United States and internationally. Altria Group has a market cap of $71.3 billion and is part of the tobacco industry. Shares are up 12.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 5 analysts that rate Altria Group a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Altria Group
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins, attractive valuation levels and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full Altria Group Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 7.0%,
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), down 6.3%,
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), down 6.2% and
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), down 5.5% , were all laggards within the consumer goods sector with
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) being today's consumer goods sector laggard.
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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the consumer goods sector could consider
iShares Dow Jones US Cons Goods
(
) while those bearish on the consumer goods sector could consider
ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods
(
).
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