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GrowOp: The Hydroponic IPO For Medical Marijuana

Posted: February 18, 2011 at 4:40 am

Medical marijuana is easily one of the most controversial businesses in America today.  It is also one super-fast growth industry.  24/7 Wall St. is always on the lookout for issues ...
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Altria Delivers on Earnings, Again and Again (MO)

Posted: January 27, 2011 at 8:58 am

Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) has some mixed earnings data this morning that is driving shares.  America's Big Tobacco reported earnings of $0.44 EPS versus $0.35 EPS a year ago, ...
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International Smoking on the Decline? (PM, MO)

Posted: November 17, 2010 at 12:51 pm

Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is presenting at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference in New York.  An SEC filing shows that Chairman & CEO Louis Camilleri ...
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Smoking Profits (PM, MO)

Posted: October 21, 2010 at 7:22 am

Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is showing that smoking is still cool, at least as far as earnings are concerned.  The international tobacco giant reported adjusted earnings of $1.00 ...
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Looking For Cover in Defensive Stocks (KO, JNJ, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, AWK, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL)

Posted: October 19, 2010 at 3:10 pm

The bulls ran for cover today as commodities and financial stocks are pulling the market lower.  After two huge 'sell the news' earnings reactions were followed by even more 'sell ...
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Killer Dividend Hikes in Tobacco (PM, MO, LO, RAI, VGR)

Posted: September 10, 2010 at 12:54 pm

Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) has just followed its former parent Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) with a dividend hike.  Philip Morris International's recent dividend hike was by more ...
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Altria Delivers Another Big Dividend Hike (MO)

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 10:23 am

Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) has hiked its dividend.  While we saw a dividend hike earlier in the year, we had a few questions about its dividend coverage.  It seems ...
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China Restricts Smoking And Philip Morris (PMI) Gets Smoked

Posted: January 19, 2010 at 5:53 am

Two trillion cigarettes are sold in China each year. Sixty-percent of adult men in the People's Republic are smokers. The AP reports that China will ban smoking indoors in seven of ...
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Reynolds: Smoking to Smoking Cessation (RAI, GSK)

Posted: December 2, 2009 at 1:57 pm

Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) has an interesting approach in M&A today.  The deal is a tiny merger valued at $44 million when you consider that Reynolds has almost a ...
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Can Altria Raise Dividend Indefinitely? (MO, PM, RAI, LO)

Posted: August 27, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Some companies are unmatched on the rate at which they pay out their dividends.  Former DJIA component Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) definitely falls into that category, as do many ...
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Tracking The Value Of The World’s Major Brands

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Several companies run annual brand valuations. It is a good business for advertising and marketing firms to be viewed as experts on brands. Brand values are based on the ...
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Between Patents And The FDA, Big Tobacco Smokes (MO)(RIA)(STSI)

Posted: June 17, 2009 at 7:45 am

Big tobacco got over yet another big news hurdle yesterday after a U.S. District Court sided with Reynolds American (RAI) in its long-running patent tussle with Star Scientific (STSI), this on ...
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The Tobacconist’s Lament: The Government’s Campaign Against Cigarettes And Fast Food

Posted: June 12, 2009 at 3:42 am

Congress has finally come within a day or two of finalizing a bill the will have the FDA regulate the tobacco industry. The markets of cigarettes, cigars, and chew have ...
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Another Legal Medical Marijuana Company Now Public (GFON, CVIV)

Posted: April 14, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTCBB: GFON), or Gulf Onshore, Inc. (GFON), is yet another public stock company which is going after the field of legalized medical marijuana.  Just last week the company was ...
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Legalized Medical Marijuana Company Now Public Stock, Really (CVIV)

Posted: April 3, 2009 at 8:50 am

If you thought that the legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes was a controversial, imagine how controversial it would be if a company was public in the sector of legalized marijuana.  ...
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