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• Big Tobacco Stocks Among Healthy Standouts In Market's Turbulent Swings 
  Forbes Blog  | Sep 13,'11
  <strong One of the few stock groups that performed fairly well during the market's turbulent swings in recent weeks is, ironically, one of the most socially and medically scorned sectors: Big Tobacco. The major tobacco stocks, notably Altria [1] Group (MO), Philip Morris International (PM), British American Tobacco (BTI), Reynolds American (RAI), and Lorillard (LO), suffered some
• Altria Group spent $2.62M lobbying in 2Q 
  Yahoo! Finance  | Sep 13,'11
  On Tuesday September 13, 2011, 2:03 pm WASHINGTON (AP) -- Altria Client Services Inc., on behalf of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, spent $2.62 million lobbying the federal government in the second quarter on issues including the budget, taxes and other issues according to a recent disclosure form.
• Jim Cramer's Am I Diversified: CEO, BAX, VZ, KMP, MO, PAA, PCL, NGRY, ED, ABT 
  Madd Money  | Sep 8,'11
  Cramer played “Am I Diversified” with callers to see if their portfolios were property diversified among a number of different sectors. The first caller's portfolio included the following stocks: CNOOC Limited ( NYSE :CEO), Baxter International Inc (NYSE:BAX), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE:KMP) and Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE:MO). Cramer said
• Altria Group (MO): High Dividend Growth Stock 
  Dividend Growth Investor  | Aug 29,'11
  Altria Group's Board of Directors announced a fresh dividend hike over the past week. Owning shares of this company for several years has delivered a rising stream of dividend income to me, and an appreciation of the simple truths mentioned above. Check my analysis of the stock. Altria Group, Inc . (MO), through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes,
• Altria Group, Inc Board Approves Dividend Increase - NYSE:MO 
  Galaxy Stocks  | Aug 27,'11
  Altria Group, Inc NYSE:MO yesterday announced that company Board of Directors voted to increase Altria's regular quarterly dividend by 7.9% to 41 cents per common share versus the previous rate of 38 cents per common share. Hence the resulting annualized dividend rate is $1.64 per common share. Company said that the quarterly dividend is payable on October 11, 2011 to shareholders of
• Altria Fires Up Dividend Hike, Riding Smokeless To $30 Stock Price 
  Great Speculations - Forbes  | Aug 26,'11
  On Friday, Altria increased its dividend by 7.9% to $0.41 per common share, making it 45 times in the last 42 years that the company has hiked the dividend. With a set of new product launches in addition to its strong product mix and pricing power, the Altria Group is well positioned to grow in the smokeless tobacco segment. Altria, previously named Philip Morris Companies Inc., is

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