Walgreen Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (WAG)
NEW YORK (
) -- The ex-dividend date for
(NYSE:
) is tomorrow, February 15, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 23 cents per share. At a price of $34.76 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 2.6%.
The average volume for Walgreen has been 8.7 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Walgreen has a market cap of $29.93 billion and is part of the
sector and
industry. Shares are up 5.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday.
Walgreen Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates a chain of drugstores in the United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.7, above the average retail industry P/E ratio of 11.6 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.
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TheStreet Ratings rates Walgreen as a
. 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, notable return on equity and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow. You can view the full
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