Losant vs Altria

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Altria leads in AI visibility (90 vs 60)

Losant

ChallengerIoT & Hardware

General

IoT application enablement platform with workflow automation and real-time dashboards; device management and edge computing for industrial and enterprise connected product applications.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
B60
Category Rank
#151 of 1167
AI Consensus
66%
Trend
down
Per Platform
ChatGPT
65
Perplexity
71
Gemini
57

About

Losant is an IoT application enablement platform providing connectivity, data collection, visualization, and workflow automation infrastructure for industrial and enterprise IoT applications. Founded in 2015 in Cincinnati, Ohio and bootstrapped to profitability before raising external funding, Losant serves manufacturers, utilities, and technology companies building connected product and industrial monitoring solutions that require reliable device management and real-time data processing.

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Altria

LeaderConsumer Goods

Enterprise

Richmond VA tobacco and nicotine (NYSE: MO) ~$9.7B net revenue FY2024; Marlboro 40%+ US cigarette share, on! oral pouch competing with Zyn, 50%+ operating margins, ABI stake, competing with Reynolds/BAT.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A90
Category Rank
#83 of 290
AI Consensus
58%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
84
Perplexity
97
Gemini
99

About

Altria Group, Inc. is a Richmond, Virginia-based tobacco and nicotine company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MO) as an S&P 500 Consumer Staples component — manufacturing and selling cigarettes (Marlboro — the best-selling cigarette brand in the United States), smokeless tobacco (Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, Husky chewing tobacco/moist snuff brands), oral nicotine pouches (on! brand), and maintaining a 10.7% ownership stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev (SABMiller acquisition consideration shares) and a 35% stake in JUUL Labs (vaping — original $12.8B investment written down to minimal value following JUUL's regulatory and litigation difficulties) through approximately 5,500 employees. In fiscal year 2024, Altria reported revenues of approximately $20.6 billion (net revenues after excise taxes approximately $9.7 billion), with the cigarette segment (Marlboro generating 40%+ US cigarette market share) contributing the majority of operating income at 50%+ adjusted operating margins — the highest margins in the consumer staples sector reflecting cigarettes' inelastic demand and regulated market structure. CEO Billy Gifford has pivoted Altria's strategy from cigarettes toward smoke-free nicotine products: the on! oral nicotine pouch (acquired full ownership of Helix Innovations in 2023, rebranding as on! to compete with Swedish Match Zyn, the dominant US oral nicotine pouch brand) represents Altria's primary nicotine product diversification vehicle as cigarette volume declines 7-8% annually through consumer quit rates and secular health awareness trends.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

60
Overall Score
90
#151
Category Rank
#83
66
AI Consensus
58
down
Trend
stable
65
ChatGPT
84
71
Perplexity
97
57
Gemini
99
59
Claude
86
66
Grok
87

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