In trading today, Transalta Corp shares opened at $8.76 and closed at $8.58. It traded at a low of $8.57 to a high of $8.93.

Shares eased -2.39% from the previous day's close of $8.79.

During the day across North America, the TSX Composite closed -0.05% at 21837.18, the S&P 500 closed 0.63% at 5149.42, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.20% at 38790.43 and the Nasdaq Composite closed 0.82% at 16103.45.

Transalta Corp traded under TA on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

A total of 1,688,903 shares was traded during the session, with total trades of 5,268, with an average volume of 2,122,556 over the last 5 days.

Trading across the entire TSX saw 3,300 price advancers against 1,937 declines and 124 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, TA.TO has traded as high as $13.97 (August 11,2023) and low as $8.47 (March 18,2024). Moreover, in the last 52 weeks, Transalta Corp's shares have lost -21.57 percent, while they have dipped -22.14% this year.

It announced a 0.06 dividend on November 21/23, with an February 29/24 ex-date and April 01/24 pay day.

Following today's trading, Transalta Corp has a market capitalization of $2.70 billion on a float of 307,100 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $2.33.

Transalta Corp is a TSX Utilities Independent Power company headquartered in Calgary, CAN.

Currently, Transalta Corp has an average recommendation of "Strong Buy" based on 9.00 analysts according to Zacks. From those 9 analysts, 8 have buy ratings and 1 analysts gave hold ratings.

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