Shares of Kraft Heinz Co. KHC slipped 1.98% to $28.70 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.72% to 6,037.88 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.

Altria (NYSE: MO) and Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) are blue chip consumer staples giants that for a time were parts of the same company. Altria, the domestic tobacco giant formerly known as Philip Morris USA, bought Kraft Foods in the 1980s and owned it until its spin-off in 2007. In 2015, Kraft Foods merged with H.J. Heinz to become Kraft Heinz.

The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), valued at a market cap of $36.1 billion, is a leading global food and beverage company known for its iconic brands and high-quality products. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

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