TransAlta Corporation (TAC) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of TransAlta Corporation (TAC): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About TransAlta Corporation
TransAlta Corporation engages in the development, production, and sale of electric energy. It operates through Hydro, Wind and Solar, Gas, Energy Transition, and Energy Marketing segments. The Hydro segment holds interest of approximately 922 megawatts (MW) located in Alberta and Canada. The Wind and Solar segment has a net ownership interest of approximately 2,587 MW located in Alberta, Canada, the Unites States, and Western Australia, as well as battery storage facilities. The Gas segment has a net ownership interest of approximately 4834 MW located in Alberta, Canada, the Unites States, and Western Australia. The Energy Transition segment has a net ownership interest of approximately 671 MW located in the United States, as well as operates the Skookumchuck hydro facility in Centralia. The Energy Marketing segment is involved in the trading of electricity, natural gas, and environmental products. TransAlta Corporation was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Sector: Utilities · Industry: Utilities - Independent Power Producers · Canada · 1,350 employees · transalta.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-06
As of 2026-09-06, TransAlta Corporation (TAC) had a market capitalization of $3.78B (forward 29.6), a dividend yield of 1.68% and a beta of 0.46; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $11.38 – $17.88 (-2.8% over the year).
- Market cap
- $3.78B
- Enterprise value
- $8.73B
- Forward P/E
- 29.6
- PEG ratio
- 6.98
- Price / book
- 6.24
- EPS (trailing)
- $-0.22
- EPS (forward)
- $0.40
- Dividend yield
- 1.68%
- Payout ratio
- 1200.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-09-01
- 52-week range
- $11.38 – $17.88
- 52-week change
- -2.8%
- Beta
- 0.46
- Average volume
- 1.8M
- Shares outstanding
- 316.3M
- Short % of float
- 2.79%
- Profit margin
- -1.0%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, TransAlta Corporation (TAC) last closed at $12.18 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 46 (neutral territory), price -0.9% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -4.7%, MACD histogram 0.04.
Sentiment inputs: StockTwits 80% bullish.
Next scheduled company event: in 20 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
RapidTradeView has recorded no Congress or insider filing for TAC in the last 90 days. Coverage of House, Senate and SEC Form 4 filings began in July 2026, and insider sells are tracked for universe tickers only, so this is our record, not a guarantee that nothing was filed. Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
TAC has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls TransAlta Corporation (TAC) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell TAC.
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