About Altria Group, Inc.
Altria Group, Inc. (MO) is a Consumer Defensive company in the Cigarettes industry with a market capitalisation of $131.1B. The stock trades at 16.15x trailing earnings and yields 5.46%.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Cigarettes
- Market cap
- $131.1B
- P/E ratio
- 16.15
- EPS (TTM)
- $4.12
- Revenue (TTM)
- $23.3B
- Free cash flow
- $9.1B
- Profit margin
- 29.8%
- Dividend yield
- 5.46%
- Shares outstanding
- 1.7B
Financial health: Fair5/10
5 strengths, 5 concerns. Weakest points: current ratio, return on equity, revenue growth and 2 more.
- Debt to equity: -7.34 (Strong, benchmark < 0.5) — Debt of -7.34x equity is conservative against the 0.5x benchmark. It has been broadly flat over the last 4 years.
- Net debt vs cash flow: 2.3y (Strong, benchmark < 4 years) — Net debt of $21.2B is 2.3x annual free cash flow — about 2 years of cash flow to repay.
- Current ratio: 0.65 (Concern, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover only 0.65x short-term liabilities — below 1.0, meaning bills due this year exceed the assets on hand to pay them. It has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: -198.4% (Concern, benchmark > 15%) — Earns -198.4% on shareholder equity, well short of the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 62.5% (Strong, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 62.5% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, comfortably past the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 29.8% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 29.8% of revenue into profit, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $9.1B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $9.1B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: -3.1% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed -3.1% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: -38.3% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed -38.3% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.
- Payout ratio: 100.2% (Concern, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 100.2% of earnings as dividends — above the level usually considered sustainable.