tobacco

tobacco Articles

If you have seen the graphic images that will go on cigarette packages late in 2011, you might think that the tobacco companies have finally met their match.  The graphic images are intended to...
If Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), and Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: TAP)  should keep an eye on efforts to legalize...
The FDA is about to give some serious warning labels on cigarette labels.  Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO)  and Vector Group Ltd. (NYSE:...
Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) is seeing its stock do what many investors a decade ago might have bet against.  The stock is hitting what is an all-time high if you factor in the Philip Morris...
Medical marijuana is easily one of the most controversial businesses in America today.  It is also one super-fast growth industry.  24/7 Wall St. is always on the lookout for issues where Wall...
Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) has some mixed earnings data this morning that is driving shares.  America’s Big Tobacco reported earnings of $0.44 EPS versus $0.35 EPS a year ago, meeting the...
Tobacco companies like Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) and Altria (NYSE: MO) have already been pushed into corners as more and more countries prohibit smoking indoors. The firms have been able to largely...
Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is presenting at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference in New York.  An SEC filing shows that Chairman & CEO Louis Camilleri is...
Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is showing that smoking is still cool, at least as far as earnings are concerned.  The international tobacco giant reported adjusted earnings of $1.00 EPS...
The bulls ran for cover today as commodities and financial stocks are pulling the market lower.  After two huge ‘sell the news’ earnings reactions were followed by even more ‘sell the news’...
Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) has just followed its former parent Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) with a dividend hike.  Philip Morris International’s recent dividend hike was by more...
Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) has hiked its dividend.  While we saw a dividend hike earlier in the year, we had a few questions about its dividend coverage.  It seems those questions are answered...
Two trillion cigarettes are sold in China each year. Sixty-percent of adult men in the People’s Republic are smokers. The AP reports that China will ban smoking indoors in seven of the nation’s...
Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) has an interesting approach in M&A today.  The deal is a tiny merger valued at $44 million when you consider that Reynolds has almost a $15 billion market cap,...
Some companies are unmatched on the rate at which they pay out their dividends.  Former DJIA component Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) definitely falls into that category, as do many tobacco sector...