Waste Connections Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (WCN)

The ex-dividend date for Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) is tomorrow, February 16, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 9 cents per share. At a price of $32.35 as of 9:30 a.m., the dividend yield is 1.1%.
By TheStreet Wire ,

NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Waste Connections

(NYSE:

WCN

) is tomorrow, February 16, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 9 cents per share. At a price of $32.35 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 1.1%.

The average volume for Waste Connections has been 652,800 shares per day over the past 30 days. Waste Connections has a market cap of $3.66 billion and is part of the

industrial goods

sector and

materials & construction

industry. Shares are down 2.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

Waste Connections, Inc., an integrated solid waste services company, provides solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.8, below the average materials & construction industry P/E ratio of 22.8 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Waste Connections as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated. You can view the full

Waste Connections Ratings Report

.

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