The 5 Companies in the Tobacco Industry With the Lowest Earnings Yield

Below are the five companies in the Tobacco industry with the lowest Earnings Yields. Earnings yield is useful to compare the relative benefit of owning a stock vs. owning other yield assets such as bonds. If the earnings yield is higher, stocks may be considered undervalued.

Vector Group (VGR) has the lowest with an Earnings Yield of 3.61%; Philip Morris (Marlboro) is next with an Earnings Yield of 6.36%; and Lorillard (LO) has the next lowest with an Earnings Yield of 6.73%.

Altria Group (MO) follows with an Earnings Yield of 7.59% and Reynolds American (RAI) rounds out the group with an Earnings Yield of 8.99%.

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