Here's a daily update on the Altria stock price for interested investors, plus some key data on MO stock that's important to know. While we frequently give readers a more detailed Altria stock price analysis, you can get a quick rundown of key MO numbers here, for July 21, 2017. Let's start with where MO stock closed yesterday - at $73.59. From the previous trading session Altria shares climbed 0.05% or $0.04 . Just looking at the Altria stock price in a short time frame is not as helpful as looking at a year's worth of share price data, so let's do that... MO is trading at a higher price than it was one-year ago, with shares up 6.64%.

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The Altria stock price 52-week high is $77.79. That was hit on 6/20/2017. The MO stock 52-week low is $60.82, reached on 10/05/2016. And, take note - MO trading volume yesterday was 4,478,800. That's higher than Altria stock's average daily trading volume of 4,278,879. Let's look at Altria's market cap, which is shares outstanding multiplied by Altria's share price. Altria has a market cap of 142,150,112,000. That means Altria has a large market cap, because it's between 10 billion and 200 billion. As of April 2016, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of Altria stock is 24.12. That's not as high as the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare MO to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of MO is 7.39. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for Altria is 0.64. Altria stock has a dividend yield of 3.32%. Most stocks considered "dividend stocks" have a yield of 2% or more. Every day we publish Altria stock news and coverage on a handful of other key stocks we're watching now so you can maximize profits. To get new info and stock news on MO and other companies you are interested in, sign up for Money Morning - it's free.

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