Altria Stock News

Market volatility remains high in 2025, and only seems to be picking up.

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The Trump administration's proposed tariffs on some of America's largest trading partners drove many investors away from companies that rely heavily on imports, exports, and other types of cross-border commerce. It also drove them toward tariff-proof companies that wouldn't be significantly affected by those levies.

The S&P 500, or Standard & Poor's 500, is a stock market index that tracks the performance of the 500 biggest companies in the United States.

Tobacco giant Altria (MO -0.24%) has experienced impressive stock price growth over the past 12 months, up more than 30% and only a couple of dollars below its five-year high.

Altria's shareholder returns are attractive, with high and growing dividends and a great share buyback volume. Shareholder returns will be able to continue for the foreseeable future as Altria's underlying operations remain healthy. Altria could see a macroeconomic tailwind as the federal funds rate moves lower potentially allowing the company to see ~9% stock price appreciation in 2025.

Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA) is failing to deliver the kind of returns that investors have come to expect of it in recent years. Year-to-date, the AI darling is down nearly 25% at the time of writing.

Altria (MO -0.24%) has multiple problems on its hands. The biggest is that demand for cigarettes, its largest product, is in decline.