Philip Morris International Inc. (PM): Today's Featured Tobacco Winner

The tobacco industry closed the day down 0.3%. Alliance One International Inc (AOI) were all winners today within the tobacco industry with Philip Morris International Inc (PM) being today's featured tobacco winner. Philip Morris International Inc rose $1.01 (1.6%) to $66.31 on average volume. Throughout the day, 7.9 million shares of Philip Morris International Inc exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9.4 million shares.

Philip Morris International Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cigarettes and other tobacco products. Philip Morris International Inc has a market cap of $116 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.1, equal to the average tobacco industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 11.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

TheStreet Ratings rates Philip Morris International as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated.