Closing Bell: Emera Incorporated up on Wednesday (EMA)

Emera Incorporated opened trading today at $48.02 and closed at $48.40. It traded at a low of $48.01 to a high of $48.71.

Share prices boosted 0.98% from the previous day's close of $47.93.

During the day across North America, the TSX Composite closed -0.76% at 22639.57, the S&P 500 closed -0.16% at 5555.74, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed -0.14% at 40358.09 and the Nasdaq Composite closed -0.06% at 17997.35.

Emera Incorporated traded under EMA on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

A total of 1,414,404 shares was traded during the last trading day, with total trades of 4,325. On average, Emera Incorporated has traded 1,235,482 shares over 5 days and 1,217,785 year-to-date.

The TSX overall saw 1,249 price advancers against 3,959 declines and 110 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, EMA.TO has traded as high as $55.74 (July 26,2023) and low as $43.67 (October 23,2023). Moreover, in the last 12 months, Emera Incorporated's shares have eased -12.14 percent, while they have dipped -3.78% year-to-date.

It announced a 0.72 dividend on July 12/24, with an August 01/24 ex-date and August 15/24 pay day.

Following today's trading, Emera Incorporated has a market capitalization of $13.74 billion on a float of 286,600 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $2.23.

Emera Incorporated is a TSX Utilities Regulated Electric company headquartered in Halifax, CAN.

Currently, Emera Incorporated's consensus rating is "Hold" based on 10 analysts according to Zacks. From those 10 analysts, 4 have buy ratings, 1 have sell ratings and 5 analysts gave hold ratings.

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