Kennametal Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (KMT)

The ex-dividend date for Kennametal (NYSE:KMT) is tomorrow, February 3, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 14 cents per share. At a price of $43.99 as of 9:35 a.m., the dividend yield is 1.3%.
By TheStreet Wire ,

NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Kennametal

(NYSE:

KMT

) is tomorrow, February 3, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 14 cents per share. At a price of $43.99 as of 9:35 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 1.3%.

The average volume for Kennametal has been 837,800 shares per day over the past 30 days. Kennametal has a market cap of $3.44 billion and is part of the

industrial goods

sector and

industrial

industry. Shares are up 20% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.

Kennametal Inc. manufactures and supplies tooling, engineered components, and advanced materials consumed in production processes worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.9, below the average industrial industry P/E ratio of 13.5 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Kennametal as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. You can view the full

Kennametal Ratings Report

.

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