Dividend Safety Analysis: Tobacco Stocks

For anyone looking for income from higher yielding tobacco stocks, the following is a dividend safety analysis I posted on my 4% Portfolio website that covered  Lorillard, Altria, British American Tobacco, and Reynolds.

In a previous dividend safety analysis we took a look at Philip Morris International (PM). Based on feedback from that article, several readers requested that a current dividend safety analysis be done for other tobacco companies as well. In particular, Altria Group Inc. (MO), Reynolds American Inc. (RAI), Lorillard, Inc. (LO), and British American Tobacco plc (BTI). Instead of doing these individually I thought it would be good to see them compared side-by-side in one analysis. READ MORE