Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE:MO)

Dividends

Great DIV!!!!

Vice sells!

People cant stop smoking. Market leader.

nice PE & Yield combo numbers

Relatively high price right now but is a consistent performer and offers relatively high dividents. Worldwide demand for its products will continue.

Always bet on deliberate, malignant evil. Evil wins.

This stock faces increasing headwinds with the decrease in domestic smoking. However, once you're hooked, you're hooked and you'll pay just about anything to get your fix.

(Probably a good idea to bank rather than reinvest your dividends.)

Marlboro

SP Dogs

Higher taxes on tobacco products and declining number of smokers will increase the cost of tobacco products. Combined with legal limits on places to smoke will increase Altria's revenue stream. As long as the company stays in the legal clear I see strong growth for this segment as a whole.

As of today, I own 1 solitary share of MO. I hold it for sentimental reasons because, in the past, MO has always been so good to me. It's never let me down. For non-emotional reasons, however, I've gradually sold off my MO positions in favor of greener pastures. I know, I know, it's like betting against Babe Ruth or Old Yeller or something. But the reality is that the growth prospects of the USA market, customer habits, and the amount of debt suggest to me that the dividends should not be able to grow in line with historical standards. To the mighty king of the dividend throne, this must be a matter of some concern. I just don't see how they can price their way out of this corner. Now I'm not saying that MO is headed for ruin. Far from it. I just think that on the 5 to 10 year horizon the future is too uncertain. Consider too that MO has superb management and they were no fools (lower case "F") when they spun off PM. They let the gifted stallion run free. Will it under perform compared to the SP500? My guess is that it will, but only because I think that the SP500 is due for recovery. If the doldrums persist, then my call was wrong. We'll see. Either way, PM is the better option.

This stock has a Government imposed cartel on 40% of the US market and has been known to pay in the 7% dividend range which is sustainable in the near to mid-tern outlook for certain and long term is likely to remain so. If 5 years of 0% capital groth are in this companies future the 7% annual dividend looks like a sure bet to smoke the S & P 500 over the next five tears easy. The only way the S & P 500 fails to offer a putrid five year average performance is as long as the Political class are successfully capable of fooling the masses with the old adage of accountantcy that "figures can't lie, but liars can figure." That is the only chance the S & P 500 can continue onward and upward the arc of the next bubble for five tears before the bubble bursts and no way will a decade pass before we see this colossus of bubblisious blown to heights unseen in human history unless the Tower of Babble was still around and it will be tiny by contrast to the size of this bubble, which true to form it must as must all bubbles bursrt. Only when she blows it will make the implosion of the global housing market meltdown seem like having got a bit of gum stuck in ones hair and nothing a quick snip snip of the scissors and all better compared to the inevitability of the house of cards put in place at the pleasure of the White House & Congress by the Federal Reserve's board of aq handful of exalted solons capable of planning out and executing with success the proper policies needed by the Market and the louts employed in the private sector who don't know what's good for them and need the Fed and the likes of small centraized commitee's to plan out evertrthing perfect on paper and then execute the wisdom contained in detail. Look no further that the former Soviet Union's multiple successes with the agricultural five year plan's they put together regularilly to ensure an abundance of food grown to feed the masses who otherwise often starved to death in the vacuum of lacking yet another 5 year plan that was necessary to prepare and adjust after the Minister of Agriculture was shot or sent to the Gulag for sabotage that caused the brilliance of the five year plans to produce the very opposite of what the handful of experts perfectly put down on paper and had any one of them not been an enemy of the people who had to be shot or sent to Siberia to die in every single case the proof of the succesful nature of such awesome schemes plotted by the greatest minds alive in knowlege of agricultural processis which never failed to fail due to Capatlalist malfactors and free market swine that tampered with each plan so as to assure the constantly pathetic harvests, lousy yields, and drastic shortfalls well below the projection's made that were barometers of what to exoect from the most recent 5 year plan as they could predict the annual yields with the simple subtraction of 80% or more of the projected figures and be right on target to at best yield 20% projected crops, more mass starvation and more Minister's of Agriculture who without exceotion were purged along with the rest of the cronies on the five man council that never was able to come close to getting it right with the five year plans always more worthless that used toilet paper. Then again so was Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and it still today has more acolytes whose starry eyed description of this unequivically debunked tripe with over a century of 100% failure rate when put in practice is merely proof of it's utter geneiousness and greatest of all truths ever written in a couple of hours as Marx used to begin and end this Alpha & Omega of the pinnicle of truth on the scale of divinity that has only to have the wisest and most worthy of societies superiors to the un-washed masses who if not for President George W. Bush to ruin everything and the failure of human nature to be at all compatable with the genious of Marx whose failure to grasp the most rudiment basics of human nature show him to be the genious that any amoeba would be impressed by are reason one of the two keys to grasp and embrace this omnipotent document of celestial wisdom. The second key is discovered by tracking Marx to the insane asylum in Great Britian where he died as crazy as a shithouse rat and once the second key of two-fold lunacy and brain death are imbued with the wit's of the slyest on Amoeba's to have inhabited the single cellular nature of these special beasts who only the chosen ones have the gift of genious, craziness, crack pottery and brain death working in tandem within a single globule that is but one cell by definition can you begin to properly seed and stock the faculties of legendary institutions of higher learning such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the other Ivy Leagues as well as international oracles of wisdom such as Oxford were from them we select our own political leaders whose genius is rooted in the fecund nebulous of the very nexus of all human stupidity itself where it flourished beyond the boundries of mere ignorance, naivete and astounding disconnection with the very nature of humanity they themselvess must possess to begin to feast upon this cesspool of intellectual garbage that can foster the ability to pass off emotion as if it were thought, the secret of liberism itself; the grand manner to enable oneself to pass of emotions as thoughts when thout is not cannot be any part of the liberal mindset lest they see themselves for the pansies and bufoonss they mostly aree only dangerous when given any form of power or authority which they willuse and abuse ruthlessly to crush the human spirit and destroy indivvidualism as well as burn the Constituton to do away with the barriers tey are twarted with time and again to do to us what is in our own best interest whether or not we are wise evough to know it or not once imposed all else is a mute point as the peeople finally are freed once more into the very serfdom that dominated the world since recorded history and by far made for the greatest despairity between the rich--.000001% and the peasantry --everyone else which was always a bone of contention amongnst the sociaalist, fascists, prgrssives and liberaals who felt they alone should have riches beyond the minds fathom while the masses were asses and should all suffer and despair but at least they will ddo so equally and that is all that reaally matters to thee commited Stalinist, Leninist, Moaist, or those acolytes of the leftist philosophy of facism which is really a disstinction witout a difference as Hitler and Mussolini were every bit the Socialist as Stalin, Pol Pot and FDR were.

It's too bad that MG doesn't cover MO being a tobacco stock. If you don't like cigarettes don't smoke buy if you like solid returns buy MO.
I am tired of mainstream media being politically correct and ignoring information readers / subscribers wish to access.
I enjoyed a solid 26% gain on this since January 2011 but MF ignores this on my scoreboard and highlights my WMT 16% as being my best performer - explain that one to me!

This will do great because the habit of smoking is hard to get rid off. It is a wonderful stock anyways.

smokers

Gonna own the Medical Marijuana market someday

yield, apparently good chart (john roque, wbj capital group)

****