Whitaker Charles N. 4

What Happened Charles N. Whitaker, Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Altria Group (MO), sold 27,908 shares of Altria stock in open-market transactions on March 5, 2026. The weighted average sale price reported was $67.57 per share, for total proceeds of approximately $1,885,718. This was a sale (not a purchase or award) and therefore typically reflects liquidity or portfolio management rather than a direct bullish signal.

Key Details

• Transaction date: March 5, 2026; Form 4 filed March 9, 2026 (filed within the two-business-day reporting window).
• Price: weighted average $67.57; sales occurred in multiple trades at prices ranging from $67.22 to $67.65 (reporting person can provide per-trade breakdown upon request).
• Shares sold: 27,908; total proceeds ≈ $1,885,718.
• Holdings reported/notes: the filing notes total holdings include 60,552 restricted stock units (RSUs) and shares held in the Altria Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan; the exact total shares owned after the sale are not specified in the summary provided.
• Transaction code: S (sale); no 10b5-1 plan or tax-withholding notation disclosed in the provided footnotes.

Context Insider sales are common for tax or diversification reasons and do not by themselves indicate company performance. Because this was an open-market sale (multiple trades) and the filing was timely, retail investors should treat it as an ordinary insider liquidity event unless other disclosures indicate otherwise.