NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Moody's Corporation

(NYSE:

MCO

) is tomorrow, February 15, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 16 cents per share. At a price of $38.51 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 1.7%.

The average volume for Moody's has been 2.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Moody's has a market cap of $8.19 billion and is part of the

services

sector and

diversified services

industry. Shares are up 14.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.

Moody's Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides credit ratings, research, and analysis covering fixed-income securities, other debt instruments, and the entities that issue such instruments in the global capital markets. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.6, above the average diversified services industry P/E ratio of 13.9 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Moody's as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. You can view the full

Moody's Ratings Report

.

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