Closing Bell: Fortis Inc up on Thursday (FTS)

Today in trading, Fortis Inc opened at $57.86 and closed at $57.90. prices ranged from $57.63 to $58.29.

Share prices advanced 0.31% from the previous day's close of $57.72.

Today across North America, the TSX Composite closed -1.68% at 22723.21, the S&P 500 closed 1.58% at 5522.30, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.24% at 40842.79 and the Nasdaq Composite closed 2.64% at 17599.40.

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

A total of 2,024,027 shares was traded during the session, with total trades of 6,677. On average, Fortis Inc has traded 1,721,686 shares over 5 days and 1,604,221 year-to-date.

The TSX market on the whole today saw 907 price advancers against 4,327 declines and 72 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, FTS.TO has traded as high as $58.29 (August 01,2024) and low as $49.82 (October 02,2023). Moreover, the shares have advanced 4.23% in the last 52 weeks, while they have advanced 6.22% this year.

It announced a 0.59 dividend on July 30/24, with an August 20/24 ex-date and September 01/24 pay day.

Following today's trading, Fortis Inc has a market capitalization of $28.29 billion on a float of 495,200 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $3.13.

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

Currently, Fortis Inc has an average recommendation of "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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