Closing Bell: Maple Leaf Foods up on Wednesday (MFI)

In market activity today, Maple Leaf Foods shares opened at $25.25 and closed at $25.21. Intraday prices ranged from $25.14 to $25.47.

Share prices boosted 0.44 percent from the previous day's close of $25.10.

During the day across North America, the TSX Composite closed 1.25% at 23110.81, the S&P 500 closed -0.50% at 5436.44, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.50% at 40743.33 and the Nasdaq Composite closed -1.28% at 17147.42.

Maple Leaf Foods has listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker MFI.

Trading volume was 205,118 on 1,250 total trades, while having an average volume of 148,710 over 5 days.

The TSX overall saw 3,418 price advancers against 1,773 declines and 138 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 eased -7.32% in 52 weeks, while they have dipped -0.12% this year.

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 $3.08 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.

Maple Leaf Foods's average recommendation is "Strong Buy" based on 6.00 analysts according to Zacks. Currently, there are 6 buy ratings for the stock.

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