{"id":878057,"date":"2025-08-21T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/altria-increases-quarterly-dividend-to-1-06-per-share\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:03:04","slug":"altria-increases-quarterly-dividend-to-1-06-per-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/altria-increases-quarterly-dividend-to-1-06-per-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Altria Increases Quarterly Dividend to $1.06 Per Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!--.bwalignc { text-align: center; list-style-position: inside }body {font:normal small Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000;background-color:#fff;padding:24px;margin:0;} a img {border:0;} h3 {font-size:medium;color:#000;margin:0 0 1em 0; text-align:center;}-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"bwalignc\"><b>Altria Increases Quarterly Dividend to $1.06 Per Share<\/b><\/p>\n<p>RICHMOND, Va.&#8211;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)&#8211;<br \/>\nAltria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) today announced that our Board of Directors voted to increase our regular quarterly dividend by 3.9% to $1.06 per share versus the previous rate of $1.02 per share. This increase marks the 60<sup>th<\/sup> dividend increase in the past 56 years.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe quarterly dividend is payable on October 10, 2025 to shareholders of record as of September 15, 2025. The ex-dividend date is September 15, 2025. The new annualized dividend rate is $4.24 per share, representing a dividend yield of 6.3% based on our closing stock price of $67.58 on August 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\nToday\u2019s dividend increase is consistent with our progressive dividend goal that targets mid-single digits dividend per share growth annually through 2028.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=bwnews&amp;sty=20250821585696r1&amp;sid=flmnd&amp;distro=nx&amp;lang=en\" style=\"width:0;height:0\" \/><span class=\"bwct31415\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"mmgallerylink\"><span id=\"mmgallerylink-phrase\">View source version on businesswire.com: <\/span><span id=\"mmgallerylink-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250821585696\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250821585696\/en\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nAltria Client Services<br \/>\n<br \/>Investor Relations<br \/>\n<br \/>804-484-8222<\/p>\n<p>Altria Client Services<br \/>\n<br \/>Media Relations<br \/>\n<br \/>804-484-8897<br \/>\n<br \/><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.altria.com%2Fcontact-us%2Fmedia&amp;esheet=54311258&amp;newsitemid=20250821585696&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.altria.com%2Fcontact-us%2Fmedia&amp;index=1&amp;md5=569987acb5fb26cec3b7776b57935892\">www.altria.com\/contact-us\/media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>KEYWORDS:<\/b> United States North America Virginia<\/p>\n<p><b>INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:<\/b> Professional Services Retail Communications Tobacco Finance Other Communications<\/p>\n<p><b>MEDIA:<\/b><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"3\">\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><b>Logo<\/b><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20250821585696\/en\/1235738\/3\/AG_pos_fullv_nor_p.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altria Increases Quarterly Dividend to $1.06 Per Share RICHMOND, Va.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211; Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) today announced that our Board of Directors voted to increase our regular quarterly dividend by 3.9% to $1.06 per share versus the previous rate of $1.02 per share. This increase marks the 60th dividend increase in the past 56 years. The quarterly dividend is payable on October 10, 2025 to shareholders of record as of September 15, 2025. The ex-dividend date is September 15, 2025. The new annualized dividend rate is $4.24 per share, representing a dividend yield of 6.3% based on our closing stock price of $67.58 on August 20, 2025. Today\u2019s dividend increase is consistent with our progressive dividend goal that targets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/altria-increases-quarterly-dividend-to-1-06-per-share\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Altria Increases Quarterly Dividend to $1.06 Per Share&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Altria Increases Quarterly Dividend to $1.06 Per Share - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/altria-increases-quarterly-dividend-to-1-06-per-share\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Altria Increases Quarterly Dividend to $1.06 Per Share - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Altria Increases Quarterly Dividend to $1.06 Per Share RICHMOND, Va.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211; Altria Group, Inc. 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