The

Dow Jones Industrial Average

(

^DJI

) is trading up 15 points (+0.1%) at 12,731 as of Thursday, Feb 2, 2012, 10:39 a.m. ET. During this time, 175.7 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 818.6 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,838 issues advancing vs. 957 declining with 137 unchanged.

Friday, February 3, 2012 is the ex-dividend date for Dow component

Intel

(Nasdaq:

INTC

). Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 21 cents per share. At a price of $26.65 as of 10:40 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 3.2% compared to the average Dow component yield of 2.7%.

The average volume for Intel has been 51.9 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Intel has a market cap of $136.95 billion and is part of the

technology

sector and

electronics

industry. Shares are up 9.5% year to date as of Wednesday's close.

Intel Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of integrated circuits for computing and communications industries worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 10.4, below the average electronics industry P/E ratio of 11.3 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Intel as a

buy

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

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