Top 5 Companies in the Tobacco Industry Offering Investors the Best Cash Flow (AOI, UVV, LO, RAI, MO)

Below are the top five companies in the Tobacco industry as measured by the price to cash flow ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.

Alliance One International (NYSE:AOI) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 3.7x based on a current price of $4.4 and a free cash flow per share of $1.19.

Universal (NYSE:UVV) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 6.6x based on a current price of $46.27 and a free cash flow per share of $6.97.

Lorillard (NYSE:LO) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 17.7x based on a current price of $73.01 and a free cash flow per share of $4.12.

Reynolds American (NYSE:RAI) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 18.2x based on a current price of $50.58 and a free cash flow per share of $2.77.

Altria Group (NYSE:MO) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 20.9x based on a current price of $20.16 and a free cash flow per share of $0.97.

SmarTrend is bullish on shares of MO and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on March 11, 2009 at $16.48. The stock has risen 22.3% since the alert was issued.