Aetna Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (AET)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The ex-dividend date for Aetna (NYSE:AET) is tomorrow, April 12, 2011. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 15 cents per share. At a price of $36.89 as of 9:31 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 1.6%.

The average volume for Aetna has been 3.8 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Aetna has a market cap of $14.2 billion and is part of the health care sector and health services industry. Shares are up 20.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday.

Aetna Inc. operates as a diversified health care benefits company primarily in the United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 8.9, equal to the average health services industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 16.8.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Aetna as buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in stock price during the past year, compelling growth in net income, attractive valuation levels, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow. You can view the full Aetna Ratings Report.

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