Altria Group is a holding company. Co.'s subsidiaries include: Philip Morris USA Inc., which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the U.S.; John Middleton Co., which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco; UST LLC, which through its subsidiary, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of moist smokeless tobacco products and snus products; and Helix Innovations LLC, which operates in the U.S. and Canada, and Helix Innovations GmbH and its subsidiaries, which operate internationally in the rest-of-world, are engaged in the manufacture and sale of on! oral nicotine pouches. We show 59 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our MO shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute MO market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing MO market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing MO's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of MO versus a peer is one thing; comparing
MO market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like MO can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching MO by allowing them to research the MO market cap history. |
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