Quantcast

Posts related to ‘MO’

SABMiller & Fosters: A Huge Deal in the Beer Business (BUD, SBMRY, MO, TAP, SAM)

Posted: September 21, 2011 at 9:29 am

Everything about Australia's Foster's Lager seems big -- starting with the brew's over-sized can. Today the beer's maker, Foster's Group Ltd., agreed to be acquired by the world's second largest ...
Read Full Story »

Still Smoking, Altria’s Big Dividend Hike Lesson (MO, RAI, VGR)

Posted: August 26, 2011 at 9:06 am

Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) has made good on a dividend hike we have been expecting.  The domestic tobacco giant has now increased its regular dividend by almost 8% to ...
Read Full Story »

When the Government Forces You Into Dividends, The Great Dividend Portfolio (MO, AEP, AWK, T, DLR, GE, GOV, KMB, KMP, SNH, WMT)

Posted: August 11, 2011 at 10:37 am

What on earth are investors supposed to do when T-Bonds offer almost zero income?  Interest rates are now so low that the price-risk in long-term Treasury bonds is too great.  ...
Read Full Story »

Stocks Not Participating in the Rally (MO, AOL, CVC, DTSI, ENOC, FOSL, GTY, LLNW, MGM, STXS)

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 10:40 am

Most investors love when the market bounces big after a huge sell-off.  The 600+ point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday actually came to almost 2,000 lost ...
Read Full Story »

Instant Updates On The Market Fiasco 2:25 PM: Fed Comments Destroy Rally

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 3:28 am

2.25 PM Comments from the Fed killed the rally, and the DJIA dropped into negative territory. The central bank will keep interest rates low through mid-2013, but it did not ...
Read Full Story »

7 Great American Stocks Immune to the S&P U.S. Downgrade (MO, AWK, T, KMB, KFT, MCD, PEP)

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 7:22 am

The S&P downgrade of the United States may have the investment community in a fuss, but many investors saw this coming long before.  To say that investors will not see ...
Read Full Story »

Defensive Stocks Bucking The Stock Market Weakness (PEP, CAG, CPB, MCD, MO, VGR, PG, CL, KMB, JNJ, AWK)

Posted: August 4, 2011 at 2:11 pm

When you see a ten-day sell-off and a capstone panic day with what is a 300-point sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the first reaction is that no one ...
Read Full Story »

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, MO, AIG, BBVA, DPZ, ETN, ELNK, FAST, MMM, MS, RCL, S, SBUX, VPRT)

Posted: July 29, 2011 at 8:24 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Sell at S&P Equity Research. ...
Read Full Story »

Top DJIA Earnings Previews For The Coming Week, and Future-DJIA Components (IBM, BAC, KO, JNJ, AXP, INTC, UTX, T, MSFT, TRV, GE, MCD, VZ, AAPL, WFC, MO, HON)

Posted: July 15, 2011 at 2:01 pm

Next week will mark the true 'opening the floodgates' for earnings season.  We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report ...
Read Full Story »

Beyond Dodd-Frank… Frank-Paul Marijuana Legalization Legislation? (MO, RAI, BUD, TAP, PEP)

Posted: June 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm

If Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), and Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: TAP)  should keep an eye on efforts to legalize ...
Read Full Story »

The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (6/22/2011) Qantas Air Explosion, Fedex Earnings, Tobacco Settlement

Posted: June 22, 2011 at 8:34 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
Read Full Story »

Today’s Best Market Rumors (6/22/2011) Hulu For Sale, New iPhone

Posted: June 22, 2011 at 8:25 am

Updated throughout the day. Premium content service Hulu is for sale (NYT, WSJ, AP) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch a faster iPhone this September (Bloomberg) Altria (NYSE: MO) and Philip ...
Read Full Story »

FDA Cigarette Warnings Getting More Harsh Than Europe (MO, RAI, LO, VGR, PFE)

Posted: June 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm

The FDA is about to give some serious warning labels on cigarette labels.  Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO)  and Vector Group ...
Read Full Story »

Screening the Highest Dividends in Defensive Stocks (MO, RAI, LO, KMB, LLY, HNZ, CAG, TAP, DPS, AWK)

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 3:39 pm

We may have just witnessed an oversold bounce in the stock market, or we may be in for more days of recovery.  The markets are flirting with six weeks of ...
Read Full Story »

The Top 6 Defensive Stocks For Investors Right Now (PEP, CAG, MO, CL, JNJ, AWK)

Posted: June 1, 2011 at 4:43 pm

Stocks are still correcting as economic data keeps coming  in weaker and weaker.  Now the media keeps routinely talking up what we called a supporting call for QE3.  Please, no ...
Read Full Story »