Closing Bell: Fortis Inc up on Friday (FTS)
Today during trading, Fortis Inc shares opened at $57.88 and closed at $59.01. Intraday prices ranged from a low of $57.79 to a high of $59.15.
Shares advanced 1.92 percent from the previous day's close of $57.90.
Today across North America, the TSX Composite closed -2.18% at 22227.63, the S&P 500 closed -1.37% at 5446.68, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed -1.21% at 40347.97 and the Nasdaq Composite closed -2.30% at 17194.15.
Fortis Inc has listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker FTS.
Trading volume was 1,735,458 on 8,888 total trades, with an average volume of 1,778,588 over the last 5 days.
The TSX market on the whole today saw 741 price advancers against 4,512 declines and 69 unchanged.
During the prior 52 weeks, FTS.TO has traded as high as $59.15 (August 02,2024) and low as $49.82 (October 02,2023). Moreover, the shares have advanced 6.46 percent in the last year, while in 2024, they have advanced 8.26%.
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 $28.67 billion on a float of 495,200 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $3.19.
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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