Assured Guaranty Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tuesday (AGO)
NEW YORK (
) -- The ex-dividend date for
(NYSE:
) is Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 9 cents per share. At a price of $17.40 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 2.1%.
The average volume for Assured Guaranty has been 2.6 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Assured Guaranty has a market cap of $2.84 billion and is part of the
sector and
industry. Shares are up 31.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
Assured Guaranty Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides credit protection products to public finance, infrastructure, and structured finance markets in the United States and internationally. The company has a P/E ratio of 4.7, above the average insurance industry P/E ratio of 4.3 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.
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TheStreet Ratings rates Assured Guaranty as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and attractive valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including weak operating cash flow and disappointing return on equity. You can view the full
Assured Guaranty Ratings Report
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