Best Stock to Buy Right Now: Altria vs British American Tobacco [Yahoo! Finance]
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They both offer massive dividend yields, with Altria at 9.3% and British American Tobacco at 9.8%. That's in fact the main reason that most investors will be interested in either of these two companies. But which of these high-yield stocks is the better option? Warning: You might want to avoid them both Before looking at whether Altria or British American Tobacco is the better company, it is important to take a look at another issue. Do you want to own a cigarette company at all? Yes, the huge dividend yields are attractive, but the businesses that support those yields are facing a secular decline. In 2018 Altria produced 109.8 billion cigarettes. By 2023 that number had declined to 76.3 billion. Some simple math shows that this is a roughly 30% drop, which is clearly not a positive trend. The story is no different for British American Tobacco. In 2018 the company produced around 700 billion cigarettes. In 2023 the figure was just 555 billion. That's a roughly 21% drop. If you
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