Seagate Technology Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (STX)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The ex-dividend date for Seagate Technology (Nasdaq:STX) is tomorrow, August 10, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 32 cents per share. At a price of $32.91 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 3.9%.

The average volume for Seagate Technology has been 13.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Seagate Technology has a market cap of $13.86 billion and is part of the technology sector and computer hardware industry. Shares are up 98.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.

Seagate Technology Public Limited Company designs, manufactures, markets, and sells hard disk drives for enterprise, client compute, and client non-compute market applications worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 4.8, below the average computer hardware industry P/E ratio of five and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Seagate Technology as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and notable return on equity. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results. You can view the full Seagate Technology Ratings Report.

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