NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Visa

(NYSE:

V

) is tomorrow, February 15, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 22 cents per share. At a price of $112.57 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 0.8%.

The average volume for Visa has been 3.9 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Visa has a market cap of $52.79 billion and is part of the

services

sector and

diversified services

industry. Shares are up 11% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.

Visa Inc., a payments technology company, engages in the operation of retail electronic payments network worldwide. It facilitates commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities. The company has a P/E ratio of 21, below the average diversified services industry P/E ratio of 28.3 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Visa as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, impressive record of earnings per share growth, expanding profit margins and good cash flow from operations. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. You can view the full

Visa Ratings Report

.

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