National CineMedia Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (NCMI)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The ex-dividend date for National CineMedia (Nasdaq:NCMI) is tomorrow, May 17, 2011. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 20 cents per share. At a price of $16.42 as of 10:02 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 4.8%.

The average volume for National CineMedia has been 323,700 shares per day over the past 30 days. National CineMedia has a market cap of $926.4 million and is part of the services sector and media industry. Shares are down 17% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday.

National CineMedia, Inc. operates a digital in-theatre network in North America. The company distributes advertising, and Fathom business and consumer events through its proprietary store and forward digital content network, and live digital broadcast network. The company has a P/E ratio of 29.5, below the average media industry P/E ratio of 30 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates National CineMedia as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, unimpressive growth in net income and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share. You can view the full National CineMedia Ratings Report.

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