NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Autoliv

(NYSE:

ALV

) is Monday, February 13, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 45 cents per share. At a price of $64.39 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 2.7%.

The average volume for Autoliv has been 671,600 shares per day over the past 30 days. Autoliv has a market cap of $5.68 billion and is part of the

consumer goods

sector and

automotive

industry. Shares are up 23.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday.

Autoliv, Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and supplies automotive safety systems to automotive industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.9, above the average automotive industry P/E ratio of 9.3 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Autoliv as a

buy

. 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, attractive valuation levels and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. You can view the full

Autoliv Ratings Report

.

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