Do Altria's Dividends Make Up For A Lagging Stock?

Selling Marlboro cigarettes and nicotine pouches generates the cash Altria Group (MO) uses to pay its dividend. Over the past year, those dividends added about 7.6 percentage points to the stock's return. Yet over a five-year timeline, the share price rose less than the S&P 500. Take a guess: once every dividend is counted, did a five-year Altria holder end up ahead of the market or behind it.