Closing Bell: Fortis Inc up on Tuesday (FTS)

Today during trading, Fortis Inc shares opened at $56.79 and closed at $57.12. prices ranged from $56.73 to $57.46.

Share prices advanced 0.42% from the previous day's close of $56.88.

During the day across North America, the TSX Composite closed 0.20% at 22824.67, the S&P 500 closed 0.08% at 5463.54, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed -0.12% at 40539.93 and the Nasdaq Composite closed 0.07% at 17370.20.

Fortis Inc has listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker FTS.

Trading volume was 1,027,571 on 4,202 total trades, while having an average volume of 1,649,673 over 5 days.

The TSX overall saw 2,584 price advancers against 2,644 declines and 86 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, FTS.TO has traded as high as $57.73 (November 03,2023) and low as $49.82 (October 02,2023). Moreover, in the last 52 weeks, Fortis Inc's shares have gained 1.89 percent, while they have raised 4.79% this year.

It announced a 0.59 dividend on February 08/24, with an May 16/24 ex-date and June 01/24 pay day.

Following today's trading, Fortis Inc has a market capitalization of $28.04 billion on a float of 493,005 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $3.13.

Fortis Inc is a TSX Utilities Regulated Electric company headquartered in Saint John’s, CAN.

Fortis Inc's average recommendation is "Hold" based on 10.00 analysts according to Zacks. From those 10 analysts, 1 have buy ratings, 2 have sell ratings and 7 analysts gave hold ratings.

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