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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Tobacco · CIK 0000764180
$76.07
+3.03% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$127.37B market value
From ALTRIA GROUP, INC.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026 · read the filing
ALTRIA makes tobacco products. It took in $23.28B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 30 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From ALTRIA GROUP, INC.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit margin
46.9% → 29.8%
Cash
$3.13B → $4.47B
Capital spending
$142.0M → $216.0M
Profit
$11.26B → $6.95B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 25, 2026
Deteriorated: −17.1 pts
46.9% to 29.8%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
MO rose 3.03% on the latest quote. The average Consumer Staples company tracked here moved +4.09%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.1 points below its sector and 4.1 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 3% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 5% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 30 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $6.95B last year.
No. Sales shrank 3.1% last year.
No. At its current cash flow it could clear its debt in about 2.3 years. For every $1 it owes, it owns $0.91 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It paid out more than it earned — 100 cents for every dollar of profit. A payment above earnings has to be funded from somewhere else, so it is worth checking whether that can continue. It paid out 75% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
WeakNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $6.95B and generated $9.29B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 25, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 26, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 27, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 27, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 25, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $23.28B | $24.02B | $24.48B | $25.10B | $26.01B | −3.1% |
| Cost of revenue | $5.60B | $6.08B | $6.22B | $6.44B | $7.12B | −7.9% |
| Gross profit | $14.54B | $14.37B | $14.28B | $14.25B | $13.99B | +1.2% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 62.5% | 59.8% | 58.3% | 56.8% | 53.8% | +2.7 pts |
| Operating income | $9.90B | $11.24B | $11.55B | $11.92B | $11.56B | −11.9% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 42.5% | 46.8% | 47.2% | 47.5% | 44.4% | −4.3 pts |
| Interest expense | $1.18B | $1.12B | $1.15B | $1.13B | $1.19B | +4.7% |
| Income before tax | $9.39B | $13.66B | $10.93B | $7.39B | $3.82B | −31.3% |
| Net income | $6.95B | $11.26B | $8.13B | $5.76B | $2.48B | −38.3% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 29.8% | 46.9% | 33.2% | 23.0% | 9.5% | −17.1 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $4.15 | $6.66 | $4.61 | $3.23 | $1.36 | −37.7% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOALTRIA GROUP, INC. · this page | 7.3/10 | 6/9 | -3.1% | 29.8% |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,268 shares at $71.56 ($90.7K)
Holds 16,245 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 1,500 shares at $67.62 ($101.4K)
Holds 114,929 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Signed a material agreement
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from MO's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 25, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.3 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 9/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.7 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
4.89
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +43.1%
$3.13B to $4.47BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Changed: +52.1%
$142.0M to $216.0MCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Deteriorated: -38.3%
$11.26B to $6.95BSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −4.3 pts
46.8% to 42.5%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: -37.7%
$6.66 to $4.15Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -11.9%
$11.24B to $9.90BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +2.6 pts
59.8% to 62.5%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +5.4%
$8.61B to $9.07BNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 30, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +83.9%
$1.29B to $2.37BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: −1.6 pts
52.9% to 51.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −1.4 pts
39.0% to 37.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 30, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: −3.1 pts
54.5% to 51.3%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: -33.0%
$3.53B to $2.37BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +12.6%
$5.43B to $6.11BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +9.0%
$3.51B to $3.82BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +6.1%
$2.96B to $3.14BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +5.3%
$2.18B to $2.30BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −2.1 pts
64.6% to 62.5%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −2.6 pts
40.2% to 37.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +5.5%
$1.30 to $1.38Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
5 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 1% and 5%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 23 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 23 analysts publishing on this company, 5 say strong buy, 6 say buy, 9 say hold, 2 say sell and 1 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
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Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 2.2% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
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The trailing P/E is 13.8x — investors pay $13.8 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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| Median of peers | 7.3/10 | — | 7.3% | 27.9% | 27.64x | -7.73x |
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Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin −1.6 pts · Cash +83.9% · Profit margin −1.4 pts — against Q2 FY2025
Published results
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin −4.3 pts · Profit margin −17.1 pts · Cash +43.1% — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating margin +20.5 pts · Operating income +65.3% · Profit +102.7% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin −4.3 pts · Profit margin −17.1 pts · Cash +43.1% — against FY2024
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Operating margin +2.8 pts · Cash +83.0% · Gross margin +1.9 pts — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Operating margin +12.1 pts · Profit margin −22.3 pts · Operating income +27.5% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingPrimary sources and further research