NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Penn Virginia Resource Partners

(NYSE:

PVR

) is tomorrow, February 2, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 51 cents per share. At a price of $26.25 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 7.6%.

The average volume for Penn Virginia Resource has been 455,900 shares per day over the past 30 days. Penn Virginia Resource has a market cap of $1.89 billion and is part of the

basic materials

sector and

metals & mining

industry. Shares are up 2% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. engages in the management of coal and natural resource properties; and gathering and processing of natural gas in the United States. It operates in two segments, Coal and Natural Resource Management, and Natural Gas Midstream. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.5, above the average metals & mining industry P/E ratio of 18.6 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Penn Virginia Resource as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, compelling growth in net income, notable return on equity, impressive record of earnings per share growth and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated. You can view the full

Penn Virginia Resource Ratings Report

.

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