Closing Bell: Baytex Energy Corp down on Wednesday (BTE)

Baytex Energy Corp opened trading today at $5.19 and closed at $5.08. prices ranged from $5.06 to $5.24.

The price shrank -1.36 percent from the previous day's close of $5.15.

Today across North America, the TSX Composite closed 1.07% at 22995.39, the S&P 500 closed 0.64% at 5667.20, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 1.85% at 40954.48 and the Nasdaq Composite closed 0.20% at 18509.34.

Baytex Energy Corp has listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker BTE.

Trading volume was 4,868,819 on 4,310 total trades. On average, Baytex Energy Corp has traded 5,155,863 shares over 5 days and 4,467,685 year-to-date.

Trading across the entire TSX saw 2,100 price advancers against 3,108 declines and 117 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, BTE.TO has traded as high as $6.37 (October 20,2023) and low as $3.96 (February 05,2024). Moreover, the shares have advanced 13.65% in the last 12 months, while they have boosted 15.98% this year.

It announced a 0.02 dividend on May 09/24, with an June 14/24 ex-date and July 02/24 pay day.

Following today's trading, Baytex Energy Corp has a market capitalization of $4.16 billion on a float of 808,045 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $-0.44.

Baytex Energy Corp is a TSX Oil & Gas E&P company headquartered in Calgary, CAN.

Currently, Baytex Energy Corp's consensus rating is "Moderate Buy" based on 8 analysts according to Zacks. From those 8 analysts, 5 have buy ratings and 3 analysts gave hold ratings.

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