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MO Altria Group Inc

45.70
0.20 (0.44%)
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Last Updated: 12:00:00
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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type
Altria Group Inc NYSE:MO NYSE Common Stock
  Price Change % Change Share Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  0.20 0.44% 45.70 7,235 12:00:00

Altria Increases Quarterly Dividend by 8.0% to $0.61 per Common Share

25/08/2016 8:00pm

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Altria Group, Inc. (Altria) (NYSE:MO) today announced that its Board of Directors voted to increase Altria’s regular quarterly dividend by 8.0% to $0.61 per common share versus the previous rate of $0.565 per common share. The quarterly dividend is payable on October 11, 2016, to shareholders of record as of September 15, 2016. The ex-dividend date is September 13, 2016.

The new annualized dividend rate is $2.44 per common share, representing a yield of 3.7% based on Altria’s closing stock price of $66.33 on August 19, 2016.

Today’s dividend increase reflects Altria’s intention to return a large amount of cash to shareholders in the form of dividends and is consistent with Altria’s dividend payout ratio target of approximately 80% of its adjusted diluted earnings per share. Altria has increased its dividend 50 times in the past 47 years.

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