Costco Wholesale Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (COST)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The ex-dividend date for Costco Wholesale Corporation (Nasdaq:COST) is tomorrow, February 8, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 24 cents per share. At a price of $84.66 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 1.1%.

The average volume for Costco Wholesale has been 2.4 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Costco Wholesale has a market cap of $35.55 billion and is part of the services sector and retail industry. Shares are up 2.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.

Costco Wholesale Corporation operates membership warehouses that offer a selection of branded and private label products in a range of merchandise categories in no-frills, self-service warehouse facilities. The company has a P/E ratio of 25.7, above the average retail industry P/E ratio of 24.5 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Costco Wholesale as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins. You can view the full Costco Wholesale Ratings Report.

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