In today's trading, Russel Metals opened at $44.86 and closed at $44.64. prices ranged from $44.56 to $45.28.

Shares decreased -0.76% from the previous day's close of $44.98.

During the day across North America, the TSX Composite closed -0.47% at 21984.08, the S&P 500 closed -0.14% at 5234.18, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed -0.77% at 39475.90 and the Nasdaq Composite closed 0.16% at 16428.82.

Russel Metals traded under RUS on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

A total of 140,521 shares was traded during the last trading day, with total trades of 438, with an average volume of 191,764 over the last 5 days.

The TSX market on the whole today saw 2,486 price advancers against 2,751 declines and 127 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, RUS.TO has traded as high as $47.39 (February 16,2024) and low as $31.24 (April 06,2023). Moreover, the shares have boosted 31.84% in the last 52 weeks, while they have dipped -0.87% year-to-date.

It announced a 0.40 dividend on February 08/24, with an February 28/24 ex-date and March 15/24 pay day.

Following today's trading, Russel Metals has a market capitalization of $2.72 billion on a float of 60,388 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $4.33.

Russel Metals is a TSX Industrial Distribution company headquartered in Mississauga, CAN.

Currently, Russel Metals has an average recommendation of "Moderate Buy" based on 8.00 analysts according to Zacks. From those 8 analysts, 5 have buy ratings and 3 analysts gave hold ratings.

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