Closing Bell: Intact Financial Corp up on Wednesday (IFC)

Today in trading, Intact Financial Corp shares closed at $250.90 after opening the day at $263.74. prices ranged from $247.16 to $263.74.

Shares advanced 2.54% from the previous day's close of $244.68.

Today 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.

Intact Financial Corp has listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker IFC.

Trading volume was 395,621 on 2,327 total trades, while having an average volume of 212,011 in the last five days.

The TSX market on the whole today saw 3,418 price advancers against 1,773 declines and 138 unchanged.

During the prior 52 weeks, IFC.TO has traded as high as $263.74 (July 31,2024) and low as $188.22 (September 07,2023). Moreover, the shares have boosted 26.66 percent in the last 52 weeks, while this year, they have boosted 23.07%.

It announced a 1.21 dividend on May 08/24, with an June 14/24 ex-date and June 28/24 pay day.

Following today's trading, Intact Financial Corp has a market capitalization of $43.63 billion on a float of 178,297 shares outstanding. Its annual EPS is $8.61.

Intact Financial Corp is a TSX Insurance company headquartered in Toronto, CAN.

Currently, Intact Financial Corp has an average recommendation of "Moderate Buy" based on 14.00 analysts according to Zacks. From those 14 analysts, 9 have buy ratings and 5 analysts gave hold ratings.

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