Credit: Shutterstock photoComputer Sciences Corporation ( CSC ) will begin trading ex-dividend on December 30, 2016. A cash dividend payment of $0.14 per share is scheduled to be paid on January 25, 2017. Shareholders who purchased CSC prior to the ex-dividend date are eligible for the cash dividend payment. This marks the 5th quarter that CSC has paid the same dividend. At the current stock price of $59.62, the dividend yield is .94%.
The previous trading day's last sale of CSC was $59.62, representing a -5.87% decrease from the 52 week high of $63.34 and a 145.65% increase over the 52 week low of $24.27.
CSC is a part of the Technology sector, which includes companies such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc. ( ADP ) and Yahoo! Inc. ( YHOO ). CSC's current earnings per share, an indicator of a company's profitability, is -$.66. Zacks Investment Research reports CSC's forecasted earnings growth in 2017 as 9.33%, compared to an industry average of -3.9%.
For more information on the declaration, record and payment dates, visit the CSC Dividend History page. Our Dividend Calendar has the full list of stocks that have an ex-dividend today.
Interested in gaining exposure to CSC through an Exchange Traded Fund [ETF]?
The following ETF(s) have CSC as a top-10 holding:
- Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF ( IVOV ).
The top-performing ETF of this group is IVOV with an increase of 8.84% over the last 100 days. It also has the highest percent weighting of CSC at 0.97%.
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