NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Rock-Tenn

(NYSE:

RKT

) is tomorrow, February 3, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 20 cents per share. At a price of $64.10 as of 9:35 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 1.3%.

The average volume for Rock-Tenn has been 644,200 shares per day over the past 30 days. Rock-Tenn has a market cap of $4.74 billion and is part of the

consumer goods

sector and

consumer non-durables

industry. Shares are up 9.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.

Rock-Tenn Company manufactures and sells containerboard, recycled paperboard, bleached paperboard, packaging products, and merchandising displays in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and China. The company has a P/E ratio of 24.2, below the average consumer non-durables industry P/E ratio of 24.3 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Rock-Tenn as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself. You can view the full

Rock-Tenn Ratings Report

.

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