Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
Tobacco maker, one pattern. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 38 of the 71 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
5,900
Leading staffing pattern
Tobacco Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202725%
- End of 202828%
- End of 203028%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 69%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
Altria’s approximately 5,900 employees make and sell cigarettes, smokeless and oral nicotine products, read as one tobacco manufacturing pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 25% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 28% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 28% desk work, 11% people work and 61% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,900 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing’s human capital excerpt counts no employees by country.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 5,900 people.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Tobacco Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): cigarettes and smokeless products, 100% of revenue, with the oral nicotine and e-vapor businesses beside them, tobacco manufacturing; no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 5,900 employees, down from 7,100 in 2020; salaried recruitment from universities; a pay equity analysis published in the filing.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Tobacco Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Philip Morris International Inc. (PM, 84,900 employees)17% now, 28% by 2028
- Universal Corporation (UVV, 25,000 employees)17% now, 27% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI six times, as risks: AI intensifying cybersecurity threats and vendors’ undisclosed use of AI tools.
- “For example, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies may intensify our and our service providers', key suppliers' and trade customers' cybersecurity risks.”
- “Bad actors around the world use increasingly sophisticated methods, including the use of artificial intelligence, to engage in illegal activities involving the theft and misuse of personal information, confidential information and intellectual property.”
- “Our vendors and third-party partners may incorporate artificial intelligence tools into their offerings with or without disclosing this use to us.”
- “The providers of these artificial intelligence tools may not meet existing or rapidly evolving regulatory or industry standards concerning privacy and data protection, which may result in a loss of intellectual property or confidential information or cause harm to our reputation and the public perception of the effectiveness of our security measures.”
- “Our failure, or the failure of our service providers, key suppliers or trade customers, to comply with personal data protection, privacy, artificial intelligence and information security laws could materially adversely affect our business.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20233median 1
- Fiscal 20246median 4
- Fiscal 20256median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 5,900 | 2026-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 6,200 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,400 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,300 | 2023-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 6,000 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 7,100 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 7,300 | 2020-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 8,300 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 8,300 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 8,300 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 8,800 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 9,000 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 9,000 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 9,100 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 9,900 | 2012-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 10,000 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 10,000 | 2010-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 10,400 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 84,000 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 175,000 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 199,000 | 2006-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 156,000 | 2005-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 165,000 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 166,000 | 2003-03-27 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 175,000 | 2002-03-19 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 178,000 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 137,000 | 2000-03-02 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 144,000 | 1999-03-18 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 152,000 | 1998-03-06 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 154,000 | 1997-03-11 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 151,000 | 1996-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 165,000 | 1995-03-10 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 173,000 | 1994-03-16 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment or country; one tobacco pattern by description.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000764180-26-000017, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Altria Group, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Altria Group, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Altria Group, Inc. employ?
- 5,900 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Altria Group, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Tobacco Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 28% desk work, 11% people work and 61% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Altria Group, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 6 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 3, 6 and 6 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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