NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Atlas Pipeline Partners

(NYSE:

APL

) is tomorrow, February 3, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 55 cents per share. At a price of $37.32 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 5.9%.

The average volume for Atlas Pipeline has been 336,100 shares per day over the past 30 days. Atlas Pipeline has a market cap of $2 billion and is part of the

basic materials

sector and

energy

industry. Shares are down 0.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.

Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P., through its subsidiaries, engages in gathering and processing natural gas. The company has a P/E ratio of 7.3, equal to the average energy industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Atlas Pipeline as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance, attractive valuation levels, impressive record of earnings per share growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. You can view the full

Atlas Pipeline Ratings Report

.

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