In market activity today, Transalta Corp shares closed at $8.43 after opening the day at $8.39. prices ranged from $8.23 to $8.57.

The price raised 0.36 percent from the previous day's close of $8.40.

During the day across North America, the TSX Composite closed -0.73% at 22199.13, the S&P 500 closed -0.95% at 5160.64, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed -1.09% at 38461.51 and the Nasdaq Composite closed -0.84% at 16170.36.

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

A total of 1,498,732 shares was traded during the session, with total trades of 4,840, while having an average volume of 1,113,324 over 5 days.

Trading across the entire TSX saw 2,898 price advancers against 2,320 declines and 129 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, TA.TO has traded as high as $13.97 (August 11,2023) and low as $8.23 (April 11,2024). Moreover, in the last 12 months, Transalta Corp's shares have shrunken -29.46 percent, while they have shrunken -23.50% 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 $2.58 billion on a float of 307,522 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $2.33.

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

Transalta Corp's average recommendation is "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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