Closing Bell: Maple Leaf Foods down on Thursday (MFI)

Today during trading, Maple Leaf Foods shares closed at $24.74 after opening the day at $24.85. Intraday prices ranged from $24.55 to $25.00.

Share prices dipped -0.36% from the previous day's close of $24.83.

Today across North America, the TSX Composite closed -0.14% at 22608.03, the S&P 500 closed -2.31% at 5427.13, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed -1.25% at 39853.87 and the Nasdaq Composite closed -3.64% at 17342.41.

Maple Leaf Foods traded under MFI on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

Trading volume was 121,516 on 644 total trades, while having an average volume of 178,164 over 5 days.

The TSX market on the whole today saw 3,490 price advancers against 1,736 declines and 92 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, MFI.TO has traded as high as $31.63 (August 04,2023) and low as $21.52 (February 23,2024). Moreover, the shares have dipped -9.81 percent in 52 weeks, while they have decreased -1.98% year-to-date.

It announced a 0.22 dividend on May 01/24, with an June 06/24 ex-date and June 28/24 pay day.

Following today's trading, Maple Leaf Foods has a market capitalization of $3.05 billion on a float of 122,773 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $-0.13.

Maple Leaf Foods is a TSX Packaged Foods company headquartered in Mississauga, CAN.

Based on 6.00 analysts, Maple Leaf Foods gets an average recommendation of "Strong Buy" according to Zacks. Currently, there are 6 buy ratings for the stock.

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