Home Depot Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (HD)
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NEW YORK (
) -- The ex-dividend date for
(NYSE:
) is tomorrow, August 28, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 29 cents per share. At a price of $56.98 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 2.1%.
The average volume for Home Depot has been 11.7 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Home Depot has a market cap of $80.8 billion and is part of the
sector and
industry. Shares are up 35.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday.
The Home Depot, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer. The company's stores sell building materials, and home improvement and lawn and garden products to do-it-yourself, do-it-for-me (at D-I-F-M), and professional customers. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.3, above the average retail industry P/E ratio of 20 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.
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TheStreet Ratings rates Home Depot as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, revenue growth, notable return on equity and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated. You can view the full
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