Top Bearish Tobacco Companies - Reynolds American (NYSE:RAI), Lorillard (NYSE:LO), Altria Group (NYSE:MO)

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Reynolds American, Inc (NYSE:RAI) fell -1.30% and closed at $43.36 with the total traded volume of 2.49 million shares after reaching ex-dividend date on Wednesday. The company will pay a cash dividend of $0.59 per share on April 01, 2013 to shareowners that acquired RAI stock prior to the ex-dividend date. The latest payment marks the 4th quarter that RAI has paid the same dividend.

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Its opening price was $43.92 and its shares traded within the range of $43.25-$43.92. This company has earnings per share of $2.24 with the net profit margin of 15.32% and operating margin of 26.66%. The company now has market cap of about $23.98 billion.

Lorillard Inc (NYSE:LO) slipped -0.57% with the closing price of $38.28. The company plans to pay $10,000 to the Community Theatre of Greensboro this week as part of $100,000 the tobacco company promised in January for the 2013 Arts Fund Campaign.

The money will be presented by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro at a performance of Cabaret at 9 p.m. Saturday. The overall volume in the last trading session was 4.08 million shares. Its fifty two week range was $36.70-$47.02. The total market capitalization remained $14.52 billion.

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The stock is ahead its 52 week low with 7.13% and its last month price volatility remained 2.05%. Its beta coefficient was 0.41 with a target price of $45.78. In its share capital, the company has 379.36 million outstanding shares while 379.07 million shares have been floated in market.

It has insider ownership of 0.23% with institutional ownership remained 98.50%. Earnings per share this year grew 5.52% while the five year EPS growth rate was +10.30%.

Altria Group Inc(NYSE:MO) slipped -0.32% and closed at $34.13 in the last trading session with the overall traded volume of 6.43 million shares, more versus the average volume of 9.77 million shares. Despite changing tobacco habits across the globe, reducing cigarette volumes, and huge legal settlement fees, the company had posted fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 earnings of $2.06 per share, up from $1.60 in 2011. That earnings per share growth of about 30% underlines the resilience of the tobacco industry and Altria Group in particular.

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Its 52 weeks high price was $36.29 and suffered lowest price of $29.76 in the same period. MO has current ratio of 0.77 and its total debt-to-equity ratio is 4.38. It has market cap of $68.60 billion while its total outstanding shares are 2.01 billion. The stock beta value stands at 0.42 times.

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