Jefferies slashes price target on Philip Morris International Inc [PM] – find out why.

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Philip Morris International Inc [NYSE: PM] closed the trading session at $180.99 on 2025-07-10. The day’s price range saw the stock hit a low of $176.95, while the highest price level was $181.11.

The stocks have a year to date performance of 76.42 percent and weekly performance of 2.89 percent. The stock has been moved at 49.58 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed 0.20 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed 21.28 percent over the most recent 3-months.

If compared to the average trading volume of 5.64M shares, PM reached to a volume of 5207764 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.

Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Philip Morris International Inc [PM]:

Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for PM shares is $190.20 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on PM stock is a recommendation set at 1.95. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.

Jefferies have made an estimate for Philip Morris International Inc shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Buy, with their previous recommendation back on July 09, 2025. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Needham raised their target price to Buy. The new note on the price target was released on May 22, 2025, representing the official price target for Philip Morris International Inc stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $170, while UBS analysts kept a Neutral rating on PM stock.

Price to Free Cash Flow for PM in the course of the last twelve months was 27.63 with Quick ratio for the last quarter at 0.43.

PM stock trade performance evaluation

Philip Morris International Inc [PM] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 2.89. With this latest performance, PM shares gained by 0.20% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 49.58% over the last 6 months – not to mention a rise of 50.39% in the past year of trading.

Philip Morris International Inc [PM]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals

Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Philip Morris International Inc [PM] shares currently have an operating margin of 36.80% and a Gross Margin at 63.08%. Philip Morris International Inc’s Net Margin is presently recorded at 19.84%.

Return on Equity for this stock inclined to 11.62%, with Return on Assets sitting at 11.62%.

Earnings per share (EPS) analysis for Philip Morris International Inc [PM] stock

The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for PM. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Philip Morris International Inc go to 11.56%.

Philip Morris International Inc [PM]: Institutional Ownership

There are presently around $81.62%, or 81.75% of PM stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of PM stocks are: VANGUARD GROUP INC with ownership of 137.2 million shares, which is approximately 8.8232%. CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, holding 115.57 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$11.71 billion in PM stocks shares; and CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, currently with $$10.03 billion in PM stock with ownership which is approximately 6.3651%.

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