Altria Group, Inc. is a holding company, which provides a portfolio of tobacco products for U.S. tobacco consumers aged 21+. Its segments include smokeable products, oral tobacco products, and all other. The smokeable products segment includes of combustible cigarettes manufactured and sold by Philip Morris USA Inc. (PM USA), and machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco manufactured and sold by Middleton. The oral tobacco products segment consists of moist smokeless tobacco (MST) and snus products manufactured and sold by U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. LLC (USSTC), and oral nicotine pouches manufactured and sold by Helix Innovations LLC (Helix).
When researching a stock like Altria Group, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from MO Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for MO stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the MO 200 day moving average ("MO 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the MO 50 day moving average ("MO 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Altria Group. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the MO 200 DMA and the MO 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("MO MACD"). The MO MACD chart, in conjunction with the chart of the moving averages, basically helps in visualizing how the moving averages are showing convergence (moving closer together), or divergence (moving farther apart). |
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