Best Stock to Buy Right Now: Target vs. Altria [Yahoo! Finance]
Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
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Target's business is facing what are likely to be temporary headwinds. 10 stocks we like better than Target › Dividend yield is an interesting metric. The math is very simple, but what you can learn from yields is often material. One lesson that long-term dividend investors will quickly learn is that the stock with the highest yield isn't always the best investment opportunity. If you are looking at Altria (NYSE: MO) and its 7.3% yield, you might be better off buying Target (NYSE: TGT) and its 4.5% yield. Here's why. Altria's primary business is producing smokable tobacco products , which account for nearly 90% of the company's revenue. Cigarettes make up the vast majority of its smokeable products, at 97% of its volume. This is important for investors to understand. The reason it is such a problem is that cigarette volumes fell 8.2% year over year in the third quarter of 2025. The company's most important brand, Marlboro, experienced a 11.7% decline in volume. Marlboro acc
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- 10/30/25 - Beat
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- 12/11/25 - Form 4
- 12/11/25 - Form 4
- 12/11/25 - Form 8-K
- MO's page on the SEC website