Based on the aggregated intelligence of 120,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, global tobacco giant Philip Morris International
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Philip Morris International's business, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Philip Morris facts
Headquarters |
New York, N.Y. (spun off from Altria, March 2008) |
Market Cap |
$85.9 billion |
Industry |
Cigarettes |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$25.5 billion |
Management |
CEO Louis Camilleri |
Trailing-12-Month Return on Capital |
30.4% |
Dividend Yield |
5.1% |
Competitors |
British American Tobacco |
CAPS members bullish on PM also bullish on: |
Altria |
CAPS members bearish on PM also bearish on: |
Starbucks |
Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS.
Over on CAPS, some 97% of the 295 All-Star members who have rated Philip Morris believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include JPRutledge and ikkyu2, both of whom are ranked in the top 6% of our community.
Late last month, JPRutledge wrote that Philip Morris "is a solid dividend payer with impressive growth prospects for a large multinational. Additionally, I find its current valuation quite promising for sizable long term appreciation to compliment its EPS growth and seemingly guaranteed annual dividend expansion."
In a pitch from three days ago, ikkyu2 makes a more careful call, weighing the stock's pros and cons:
Cautiously back into this one. Global anti-tobacco efforts are a major long-term threat, and so is a 79% debt-to-equity ratio in this current low rate environment; but a 5.3% yield for a stock with these kinds of global growth opportunities presents a very attractive investment.
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