NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- The ex-dividend date for

Woodward

(Nasdaq:

WWD

) is tomorrow, February 14, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 8 cents per share. At a price of $44.91 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 0.7%.

The average volume for Woodward has been 414,300 shares per day over the past 30 days. Woodward has a market cap of $2.94 billion and is part of the

industrial goods

sector and

industrial

industry. Shares are up 7.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday.

Woodward, Inc. designs, manufactures, and services energy control and optimization solutions for the aerospace and energy markets worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 22.6, equal to the average industrial industry P/E ratio and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

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TheStreet Ratings rates Woodward as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, revenue growth, solid stock price performance, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow. You can view the full

Woodward Ratings Report

.

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