MO

SerpentRoyalty

Just FYI, MO makes cigarettes, in case you don't want to support that. VZ's share price is lower than it was in 1999. Better off just putting that money in a HYSA. CVX is the king of growth dividend stocks. Clear winner.

vegetto712

Some of my favs: MO, AGNC, F, VZ, VALE, KVUE Shout-out to the obvious ones like WMT and TGT

Maakus

Devils advocate - UNH is not good however there are 400,000 people working there. Optum hires every level of clinical staff that care for patients. Statistically they are in the majority doing the right thing. Financially - signs point otherwise. Its not comparable to a stock like PLTR/RTX/MO/DKNG

mrtrentsd

Consider the following: **MO** Altria Group **7.4%** 60 Years (Dividend growth streak in years) **VZ** Verizon Communications **6.6%** 20 Years **O** Realty Income **5.5%** 30+ Years **KMB** Kimberly-Clark **4.9%** 53 Years **CVX** Chevron **4.4%** 38 Years

Apprehensive_Two1528

MRK, Abbv, MO

Weldobud

Some ideas - REITS seem undervalued now. Agree Reality looks like a good pick. Verizon 7% and if they grow you could get capital appreciation too. PG if you get it 135-140. CLX, KMB, CL. Then there’s Oil stocks and MO. Less popular but seem well covered for dividend. Pfizer? Maybe. World Cup is coming up so DEO might get a boost - and the have a new CEO.

Jerry_1992

That’s his MO lol

My_Big_Arse

right. If so, then why the hell we invading a sovereign nation....THis has always been merica's MO.

JohnDuffy78

BRK has Oil, coke, ally, Kraft Heinz, tbills. I augment it with MO, CSX & GEO.

NoGarlic2387

China inviting foreign companies just to pick up on their trade skills and then subsidise domestic equivalents has been their MO for a while. What was Elon thinking opening a Tesla factory there...

CalebVanPoneisen

* Exxon Mobil ($XOM): 3.42% * Chevron ($CVX): 4.49% * Flutter Entertainment ($FLUT): N/A * MGM Resorts ($MGM): N/A * Lockheed Martin ($LMT): 2.85% * RTX Corp ($RTX): 1.48% * Phillip Morris ($PM): 3.67% * Altria ($MO): 7.35% Average of 2.9075% dividend overall. Quick and dirty math: if you had $100,000 equally spread in all above stocks on Jan. 1, 2025 you'd have made $13,690 at the end of the year, and $2,907.50 in dividend for a total of $16,597.50. * SPY: 1.07% Same $100,000 for SPY would give you $16,640 just from the stock, plus $1,070 dividend, totaling $17,710. So even with the combined dividend, you would gain more betting your parents' hard earned Benjamins in SPY rather than the 8 above. Even without dividends.

Schnuderi

But the dividend is mostly pretty good for the sin stocks (e.g. 7.35% for MO currently).

ThatFUTGuy

this year i’m gonna take $120k to $1m and then put it all in $MO and use the 7% dividend payout for pure 0DTE gambling 😎

CalebVanPoneisen

I mean, you could just see how they performed last year. * Exxon Mobil ($XOM): +12.14% * Chevron ($CVX): +3.89% * Flutter Entertainment ($FLUT): -15.55% * MGM Resorts ($MGM): +8.41% * Lockheed Martin ($LMT): +0.29% * RTX Corp ($RTX): +58.09% * Phillip Morris ($PM): +32.45% * Altria ($MO): +9.81% So on average you'd have made 13.69% (nice) if you'd have invested equally in all of them. Which is less than SPY (16.64%).

greyenlightenment

MO lung cancer stock LLY obesity stock

Krimsonkreationz

Eh, ill take NLY (12.52%) all the years I've held it they have paid out the dividend. That said I will definitely look into MO as another div stock.

DumbNutter

Take a look $SPHD which is an index fund for high dividend stocks which includes $MO. 4.65% dividend yield. But your risk is spread out between all its holdings.

DumbNutter

$MO has a huge 7% dividend but is not a blue chip stock by any means so is susceptible to crashing at any time.

NYGiants181

Never heard of $MO. Is it that easy?

Moist-Pumpkin-5336

All he had to do was put it in SPY and wait. Heck, even putting it in $MO would've generated $50k+ in dividends each year which he could've gambled with.

Apprehensive-Pin518

trump's MO is to bankrupt a business and then sell of the assets and pocket the profits. now I understand what he means by "run the government like a business"

kaapooj

altria (MO) != philip morris

brute-forced

If you love the Earth, the best thing you can do is invest in Phill Morris (MO) because they are doing more for the Earth than anyone else. They also pay a magnificent dividend as they seek to lessen the impact of humans on this planet. https://www.altria.com/about-altria/our-vision-and-cultural-aspiration

brute-forced

Anyone else saving for a home for their kids and grandkids? Since it will cost $750K-$2M for a 2/3 bdroom in 2045-2055? Probably going to buy buttcoin or MO for the investment vehicles

Potato_Donkey_1

This was a year of treading water -- a very small decline for my total holdings. But I'm retired, and my exposure to equities is only about 30%. I can't afford to ride a correction down. Biggest gainer in total return, by far: MO.

AcanthisittaFeeling6

Do your own DD always.  Most of it is pump and dump, but some legit like the call for GVH today before MO.

Cactuscouch757

All my homies hate ZYN, long MO.

IDrinkSulfuricAcid

Oh boy, there's much better dividend stocks! You could go with Verizon (VZ) which has a 6.82% dividend. Altria (MO) has a 7.36% dividend. 6.86% on Pfizer (PFE). Western Union (WU) offers a 10% dividend. Obviously the drawback is that a lot of these stocks don't grow or some are actively going down. Chevron has a relatively lower dividend compared to these, but it's stable. From these, I would choose VZ.

Iunatic

MO trades overnight

Deep_Opportunity_883

So Finland/France/Iceland/UK datacenters run on Qatar/US gas or don't run at night, right? One wrong word from EU cucks and they don't run at all. This leave only 2 US datacenters in MO and NJ with US grid already in power deficit and so far no plan to fix it publicly available. Hmm...

jonsca

I think it's just "MO" then 🤣

Cactuscouch757

Open net gain: CBSTF: -93% CRLBF: -61% MSOS: -48% CRON: -18% MO: +25% This sector has really stunted my investing career.

Lopsided-Magician-36

Oh and don’t forget you are paying taxes on the dividends and if you sell the stock! Taking money you already earned or have and re realizing it as earned income. Dividends only make sense in a long term buy and reinvest strategy. Like buy, hold, reinvest dividends in MO has been one of the best plays of the last century CSCO would’ve been a good buy hold reinvest play over 30 years. People who aped in ULTY MSTY and other yield max are about to get raked come tax time not realizing this

sexyshadyshadowbeard

I don’t know what dividend stocks are dead because the likes of Eli Lilly, Merck, BTI, MO have screamed higher this year. Your fragility thesis is nonsense.

Jazzlike_Judgment329

I honestly don’t think so; his MO is to let it do its thing and then react after hours (typically between 4pm-4:15pm), which is why we were watching the volume after the close to see if he rolled, and there was volume of approx 130k contracts on today’s calls on every strike of 6920/6925/6930/6935….but we don’t know how much capital he has/had to deploy, but I do know they did not adjust during market hours. Rolling into Friday with double the size would have required about $64,000,000 in capital (assuming $1.45 credit per condor) based on 180,000 contracts. Like you, it was hard to watch knowing how many people really got their faces ripped off today. I’ve been on the wrong side of a trade like that, and with size, but nothing close to size like that. It’s unfortunate that he didn’t realize that his massively scaled size was literally their downfall - dealers MUST hedge that kind of exposure. It’s a great lesson for us all that gambling in the markets will always expose the fools, and that Mr. Market will always humble you.

Al-phabitz89

Reddit MO

jrex035

Trump's entire MO is ideologically inconsistent because he doesnt actually believe in anything except enriching himself. That being said, this is GREAT news for US national defense, our shipbuilding sector is a fucking catastrophe. It needs to be reworked from top to bottom and letting our SK allies, some of the most important shipbuilders on the planet, help out is critical to prevent China from completely overtaking the USN in the next decade or two. Also I'm holding KDEF right now so this is welcome news :)

JohnDuffy78

If you aren't using margin yet, can I offer you some MO?

ApostleThirteen

The FDA allows states individual waivers to import pharmaceuticals, specifically from Canada, so, depending on state-level prices, that's one way... Of course, they could always invest in US production, which would fit their MO as far as foreign operations in the EU work. It's pretty clear that they're quick to put up cGMP/GLP facilities wherever they can.

TheoryInttro

Maybe not KO, but since his MO is paying opponents to take a dive, yes, he'll win.

dahhb

Looks like shorts are seeing the aftermath of the inflated run up to the EO today as a short-term opportunity to short the sector until DOJ finalizes rescheduling. I predict a sell the news slow bleed till the closing bell. Tomorrow might hopefully see some green, but I have a feeling shorts will be in full action until DOJ finalizes the process. I don't think we will return to the lows of 12/12/25, but it would be the typical weed stocks MO.

dahhb

So who believes shorts are seeing the aftermath of the inflated run up to the EO today as a short-term opportunity to short the sector until DOJ finalizes rescheduling? I predict a sell the news slow bleed till the closing bell today. Tomorrow... I guess bold shorts will continue to short the entire sector for the next few weeks. I don't think we will return to the lows of 12/12/25, but it would be the weed stocks MO.

Cactuscouch757

yeah ive been building a MO position while this sector has been bleeding me dry. Ill hold MO and CRON but otherwise, im gone.

justdoubleclick

Buy high sell low.. pretty standard MO here..

Nervous-Chemistry245

Been reading this comment on every MO thread for what feels like a decade. Eventually it'll happen (fingers crossed)

Emotional_Sentence1

My dad smoked for over fifty years and I watched him suck back a literal fortune in cigs over the course of my lifetime. That anther sweet dividends is why overhead $MO in my 401k for a few years now and plan to keep contributing to it. Vapes and pouches disrupted the scene for a bit, but I think consumers are going to fall back on cigarettes as the plant-based vegan alternative to get kids off sketchy Temu vapes. The synthetic market is plagued with counterfeiting and once kids (yes, the average age is 14) can legally buy smokes, they’ll likely see it as a simpler option. Additionally, the medical research on cigarettes is old enough that it’s going to steer getting questioned by regarded health influencers as “outdated”. Health programs and anti smoking campaigns only serve to get cut by this administration as well. cigs are going to make a comeback.

ArchicadMaster

That's plenty! No MO wasting time. Gonna buy shares, callz and ballz. I'll buy some PM why not and some BTI. My whole account is about to get cancer.

ArchicadMaster

What MO do you want? He already explained :P

nebulaedlai

MO is similar to KO in that people buy it for dividends, not growth. However, MO is riskier and less stable, even though the payout is higher. It is still considered a defensive stock tho. I’d say with higher volatility next year, allocating some assets to defensive stocks suck as MO, KO, or PEP is not a bad idea.

chunk121212

Avid pouch user and built up a position in MO since its come off the 60s. As an avid user, I primarily use 2mg ons. I love the smaller pouch size and the 2mg is perfect - something zyn does not offer. Your thesis is exactly why I bought - there’s upside here that is absolutely not acknowledged and I get paid a very nice premium while I wait.

daviddjg0033

$PM is going to rally now that everyone realizes the heavily shorted unprofitable weed stock rally is over. Why $MO?

Str8truth

Thanks for this research and analysis. I took a small position in MO a couple years ago, after I found cigarette butts at the house I rent to college students, for the first time in ten years. My daughter confirmed that it's a trend for young people to smoke again. I know first-hand that it's a bad habit and hard to break, but I think smoking has been normalized by pot. The pouch industry is an interesting development, promising addicted customers without the worst aspects of smoking.

Negative_Win_5117

WSB is going to ruin MO for me.

sprtn757

PM and MO will be the ultimate winners when weed is legalized at the federal level because they have the distribution channels to push massive volume.

Paul_Robert_

Well, that $MO DD was so good that the mods pinned it! Though OP only dumped $1k into it, so idk.

8InchDaks

Finally seeing this listed damn. Ive been putting money into MO for a while now. Also, I have BTI(British American Tobacco) in my portfolio. Solid dividend and incredible growth this year. Their pouches Velo Plus absolutely crushes competitors now tbh.

Right-Setting-259

Pump that shit. I bought a MO call Friday hoping it would get some SINpathy move with the weed stocks

TheDuckFarm

TLDNR, Buy MO, get Lambo. Got it.

THE_WHOLE_THING

Fuck MO, all my homies go long on BTI.

Total-Shelter-8501

MO subreddit is that way

odp01

Been long MO for decades since the old Phillip Morris days. By far my best performing stock long term.

mikemccrea

guys who manage my money sold MO at 56.8 so i fully expect this to be sitting at 80 in 2 years w insane dividend

Negative_Win_5117

Long $MO

Snoo-90587

If by Japan you mean the beautiful state of MO then yes I am

TernTheNumbers

Buy MO and BTI. Big tobacco will own the market.

gami2billy

Don't know exactly when the tariff rulings gonna come out but I can guess for sure that trumps going to invade Venezuela right after to take the spotlight away from his tariffs being struck down. That's his MO

thedeadcricket

The Biden years were mostly calm and boring. Trump's MO is chaos so won't see calm and boring again for some time.

eZee3

will go back up at MO

newbirdhunter

UPS, IREN, IBIT, BTCI. these are the largest. there are several others that will come back like MSFT and MO so not too worried about those.

CarelessSpecial8322

https://preview.redd.it/lkcmj5tso16g1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48eded081c63a15c320b4a363f900580c67bffe2 Buy MO PUTS ON CVNA

swampwiz

This is my MO: I have some stocks that look promising, and I keep tabs on them during the day, and when they go down, I view them as being on sale. When I have a pair of stocks - one that I have a position in, and one that I don't - that I consider to be equally good, I wait for the former to go up 10% or so relative to the former, and they reposition into the latter. This is something that might only happen a single time in a long period, at exactly some hour::minute, and I wait for the opportunity and then pounce. I absolutely love going through Yahoo Finance's Biggest Losers list for bargains. I keep abreast of investor sentiment by looking that stock forums and other sources. When sentiment looks to turn, and I've got a nice unrealized gain, I look for something to reposition to.

Negative_Win_5117

In my 401k I’m slowly rolling profits from chip and bank stocks into dividend stocks like MO, PFE, ARCC, etc. In my IRA I can trade options so I just always keep at least 50% in cash. Thats my risk management strategy.

Jesus-Musk

Imagine Zaslav’s whole MO was to fire all the dead weight at WBD and sell the IP

merchant91

Isn't this his MO...shorting biotech stocks right before they release clinical trial results

zztop610

This^ is my MO

BatteryAcid420_

Japan's government debt-to-GDP ratio was about 236.11% in 2024. They have to keep interest rates low in order not to deal with a debt crisis twice as bad as the US. However that means further inflating their economy. At some point this will no longer be a valid MO. They are projected to spend 25% of state income just to service debt this year. However „next 5 years“ sounds highly improbable considering this has been going on for literal decades. Also most of their debt is held domestically according to quick research and the numbers posted in the comments here, which both means interest payments stay in the country and they can essentially write off that debt entirely without damaging their credit rating remotely as much as if the US or Germany were to do this who both face a debt crisis as well (foreign investors don‘t receive the majority of damages in Japans case).

Fuzzy_Cricket6563

I’m invested in an ETF- SCHG. Individual stocks-V,MA, PM, MO, FIX, AVAGO, STRL.

Negative_Win_5117

What’s your exposure to dividend stocks? MO is still my favorite and the yield is above 7% right now.

Fauster

If you can afford to save and afford to pay off debt, then you can't really afford not to invest. The value of the dollar halves every 15 years, and treasuries can keep you even with that a lot of the time. The s&p doubles every 7-10 ten years. The number of publicly traded stocks is constantly shrinking, so where you can put money is inherently limited if you aren't an accredited investor with a liquid few million. But if a public company can somewhat sustainably get a dramatically better ROI per dollar than you can, then you should be exposed over 5-7 year market cycles. Private capital is still slowly eating the world, in spite of the recent drama and selloffs related to fraud where people leveraged the same assets with different private parties and banks. My take is that private capital investor types are fine with typical infrastructure loans, but are balking at all the AI infrastructure loans that have gone out. It's fine that a lot of investors have tried to sit out the AI trade for the last three years, impossible if they own index funds, and those fixed-income risk-profile types are unlikely to ever steer their assets in. If interest rates go lower, private capital's standard MO will probably be to spin out startup vehicles. Retail is leverage of last resort, the lowest-tier scraps gobblers that own 25% of the market. When IPOs and waves of dilution are used to finance spend, when leverage jumps from 7% to 30%, and when sequential-quarter growth is no longer a thing, that's the time I would really worry. A stat I heard recently is that the S&P is up by double digits 80% of the years where there is not a recession, and up 20%+ for 40% of those years. So, if we're about to enter a recession, all bets are off, but people have been calling that for the last three years. If you take the informal definition of recession to be two quarters of negative GDP growth, then we're no where near that. The I in GDP dominated by AI infra investment is huge. But, when that I goes down, because hyperscalers et al. are reducing spend, it seems that we can't not have a recession. First-order, that recession could be severe. But, layoffs are continuing along with earnings and revenue growth, so the Fed is in a hard place, knowing that lower rates will ad fuel to fire and create more money that will need to find a home. Kevin Hasset has the gravitas and charisma of the Pillsbury Doughboy, so I wouldn't bank on a suddenly compliant Fed. The market feels the Fed will still fight inflation and so do I. Is there evidence that inflation is running dramatically higher than 3%? I'd argue not yet. Are there liquidity problems in corporate debt outside the AI trade? Nope. Is the AI trade still primarily funded by earnings of companies that have growing earnings? Yep. Are there huge bottlenecks that have fueled crazy price hikes and earnings jumps? Yep, thinking of MU and EWY, which I own. There is still an arms race going on. When former frontier players start bowing out and cut back on training and acknowledge defeat, that will be a significant moment. It just hasn't happened yet. Wherever you put your assets, you assume risk. But, some degree of risk is the only thing that will pay you, though, for the sake of sleep, I am personally buying dividend stocks again, thinking about my barbell, and hedging. Soros used to say that volatility increases towards market tops, and it's my base case that things get more volatile between now and the next recession, which will market will probably rapidly forecast with waterfall declines.

DPL18

$MO

Ok-Range-3306

buying and selling based on 2 week old news is reddit MO

manferd83

Hmm… There are times i buy a company that is beyond my Discount cash flow (DCF) calculation. There are times i insist to buy below the DCF result. As i key in the data into the DCF calculator, i do admit there are a lot of assumptions. Assuming the company is carry on growing. Assuming the company has a moat. Assuming the management are honest and competent. Etc etc. DCF is just a rough guide. Hence… unless u want to look at book value, (which not all companies can be valuated by book value). DCF cant really be accurate. Hence, Graham suggested to put a margin of safety. To buffer that in the event our assumption is wrong. Yet… being too conservative, i cant buy any stocks! Being too optimistic, every stock is undervalued! So, in certain case, you have to calculate as accurate as you can. And then ask yourself: is this company a good company? This is where… some intangible traits of the company you recognized. I recognized MO’s moat is so sticky, as the product is so addictive that some cancer patients still smoke despite their illness. How do u put a number this illogical behaviour? Of course, the opposite is true. Newspaper was so widespread and provide so much stuff to people. But they got disrupted. So if one analyze newspaper companies before Internet boom, they probably face a lot of uncertainty risk. Hence… if… you are not sure. That means this company you shouldn’t invest. Not sure about the company’s future prospects, the valuation you calculated and still not sure if it is accurate or not. Etc. If you found a company, you are very sure of its prosperity. And if it is undervalued based on your conservative calculation. I think it is a good idea to buy. If it is has high margin of safety and it is still undervalued. Buy aggressively good size. If it is overvalued, and you are not patient… buy a small position. If it rise, good for you. If it is crash, it is a small position so you aren’t hurt that bad. Sorry for being long winded. I hope this helps!

Fenc58531

Holding a good amount in PM, MO, or consumer defensive in general isn’t bad when you’re nearing retirement or you believe a recession is incoming.

TheSeaShadow

I'm not convinced Google isn't full of shit. Consumer sentiment of the quality of the rest of their products is falling, quantity over quality seems to be their new MO. I'm not convinced that they can deliver on much of anything now. I'm just awaiting the announcement of a new chat client for Gemini 😆

GomaN1717

95% of this sub are either degenerate gamblers or people who think they're the next Michael Burry spamming big tech FUD posts. Rational thinking is not this sub's MO.

SnooCalculations2573

That’s correct! Buy dividend paying stocks that people need not want. DUK, XOM, WM, ET and MO- there , your own mutual fund without the fees. Compounding is a powerful tool. In a few years, you can speculate- no options- with companies you have done a lot of DD ; fundamental and technical analysis - never when markets at all time highs and retail so invested in chasing names found on boards like this. These boards are only good for identifying bs pumpers and bashers- no better than an analyst on CNBC telling you to buy a stock so his firm can dump from their proprietary accounts on to retail views- use these outlets as a contrarian indicator. Glty

Rich-Concentrate-519

Added a comment to yours, those are what I’m invested in. Natural Gas because it’ll be the gap fill until nuclear is more widely available, adopted and/or acceptable. The 12MO mitigates the crazy fluctuations and has enough upside if the underlying moves. Others have done amazing for me in the last few months, just track their performance.

1_FCKTRD

On April 17, 2025, the STATES 2.0 Act (H.R. 2934) was introduced and referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Representative Brett Guthrie (R-KY), the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, is holding up the States 2.0 Act from a committee vote. Guthrie, who represents Bowling Green, has received more contributions from political action committees than any of his other House of Representatives colleagues, except for Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO). He sounds like a hemp industry crooner, much like Senator Rand Paul, who is also from Kentucky.

BigGreenCandles

My MO

Gom_KBull

liquidity is fucked, NO MO TOKENS

Working-Active

Ok good to know, I guess Springfield, MO is the closest big hospital.

Ok_Courage_2870

The three big times bonds made sense in history was the 1929 Great Depression, the early 1980s when yields came rapidly down sooner after from double digits and the 2008 recession. All these had deflation in common. While we may experience a very temporary deflationary shock like in the Covid crash the MO now is to stimulate hard to stop the whole system from imploding. The macro set up for bonds just looks bad going forwards. Sure rates might go down but they are coming down from single digits and they shouldn’t, it’s basically financial repression with these levels of inflation. Not to mention the debasement to infinity that all developed countries are trapped in now.

obliterayte

The only ones I can recall seeing were at the St. Louis Zoo and some place in Branson, MO.

TheCuriousBread

Micheal Burry's MO has always been "I maybe early but I'm not wrong" all the way back to 2008. He started shorting the housing market in 2005 and almost destroyed his fund til it paid off in 2008 which then he closed up shop.

r_ventura_23

My PM and MO depend on this.

Junior-Appointment93

Depends on if it’s archery or rifle season. Am I in a field or the woods. If rifle season and I’m in a feild the 12 point. Archery season and in the woods the 6 point. This market is like Missouri rifle season only 10 days long. Archery is SEP-DEC. this market is MO’s rifle season. It’s only up for a few days then goes down

DapperGovernment4245

MO has been very nice. EPD is good. VZ is a good dividend but I don’t particularly like the stock same with O. I used to like IRM but it’s gone up so much lately the yield is low and I’m afraid it might be overvalued.

Jericho3434

100k in SGOV, 30k cash. Waiting for some juicy deals. I bought MO on its dip, was about to buy Meta calls but I already own Meta stock. Got lucky there lol 😂

Throwmeaway50472

I perfectly timed my puts last week, bought calls, was expecting it to hit $685-$687 this week during market hours, pre market teased me, should’ve sold at 10 mins after MO, and then have just ridden this slide down These pre market moves are destroying me this past month.

Mark_Underscore

MO also. Real companies with real products AND a dividend.