TransAlta
TAC
12.88
-0.24
-1.83%
TransAlta
US · TAC
#2293 by market cap
Listed 1970
12.88
-0.24
-1.83%
Live - 5344 symbols - heartbeat 256s ago
· 2026-10-08 07:40
Pre-market
12.88
0.00%
After-hours
12.88
0.00%
- Market cap
- 4.07B
- P/E (TTM)i
- -59.35
- P/Bi
- 6.92
- EPSi
- -0.45
- Div yieldi
- 1.45%
- 52W posi
- 27%
Reader sentiment
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✦ Quant Financial Health how this is computed
Weak
- Altman Z-Score is 0.13, below the 1.8 "distress zone" threshold.
- Most reliable for industrial/manufacturing companies; less meaningful for banks, insurers and other financials.
Revenue annual, last 8 years
Latest year -15.47% YoY
Margins
- Gross margin
- 59.04%
- Operating margin
- 2.91%
- Net margin
- -7.90%
Key ratios & quality
- Enterprise valuei
- 8.07B
- Altman Z-Scorei
- 0.13
Altman Z-Score below ~1.8 suggests financial distress risk, above ~3.0 suggests low risk; the model is most reliable for industrial/manufacturing companies and less meaningful for banks and other financial firms.
Income statement
| Line item | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 2.25B | 2.35B | 2.10B | 2.72B | 2.98B | 3.36B | 2.85B | 2.41B |
| Gross profit | 1.15B | 1.26B | 1.13B | 1.49B | 1.64B | 2.18B | 1.79B | 1.42B |
| Selling & admin expenses | 245.00M | 228.00M | 235.00M | 234.00M | 263.00M | 254.00M | 296.00M | 317.00M |
| Research & development | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Operating profit | 45.00M | 184.00M | -45.00M | 377.00M | 491.00M | 993.00M | 581.00M | 70.00M |
| Pretax profit | -96.00M | 193.00M | -303.00M | -380.00M | 353.00M | 880.00M | 319.00M | -141.00M |
| Tax | -6.00M | 17.00M | -50.00M | 45.00M | 192.00M | 84.00M | 80.00M | 17.00M |
| Net profit | -90.00M | 176.00M | -253.00M | -425.00M | 161.00M | 796.00M | 239.00M | -158.00M |
| Basic EPS | -1 | 0 | -1 | -2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 |
| Diluted EPS | -0.86 | 0.18 | -1.22 | -2.13 | 0.01 | 2.33 | 0.59 | -0.64 |
| Line item | 2025-03 | 2025-06 | 2025-09 | 2025-12 | 2026-03 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 758.00M | 433.00M | 615.00M | 599.00M | 565.00M | 487.00M |
| Gross profit | 432.00M | 334.00M | 353.00M | 301.00M | 361.00M | 433.00M |
| Selling & admin expenses | 76.00M | 77.00M | 81.00M | 83.00M | 99.00M | 88.00M |
| Research & development | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Operating profit | 100.00M | -3.00M | 25.00M | -52.00M | 73.00M | 143.00M |
| Pretax profit | 49.00M | -95.00M | -53.00M | -42.00M | 23.00M | 80.00M |
| Tax | 7.00M | 11.00M | 1.00M | -2.00M | 6.00M | 28.00M |
| Net profit | 42.00M | -106.00M | -54.00M | -40.00M | 17.00M | 52.00M |
| Basic EPS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diluted EPS | 0.15 | -0.38 | -0.20 | -0.21 | 0.04 | 0.12 |
Balance sheet
| Line item | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total current assets | 1.31B | 1.34B | 1.90B | 2.20B | 3.71B | 1.58B | 1.77B | 1.34B |
| Cash & ST investments | 89.00M | 411.00M | 703.00M | 947.00M | 1.13B | 348.00M | 337.00M | 205.00M |
| Inventory | 242.00M | 251.00M | 238.00M | 167.00M | 157.00M | 157.00M | 134.00M | 111.00M |
| Total assets | 9.43B | 9.51B | 9.75B | 9.23B | 10.74B | 8.66B | 9.50B | 8.66B |
| Total current liabilities | 880.00M | 1.12B | 935.00M | 1.93B | 2.89B | 1.74B | 2.57B | 1.83B |
| Short-term debt | 148.00M | 513.00M | 105.00M | 844.00M | 194.00M | 535.00M | 1.32B | 925.00M |
| Long-term debt | 3.07B | 2.90B | 3.46B | 2.67B | 3.69B | 3.14B | 3.09B | 3.28B |
| Total liabilities | 5,294,000,000.00 | 5,446,000,000.00 | 6,311,000,000.00 | 6,633,000,000.00 | 8,752,000,000.00 | 6,995,000,000.00 | 7,656,000,000.00 | 7,196,000,000.00 |
| Total equity | 4.13B | 4.06B | 3.44B | 2.59B | 1.99B | 1.66B | 1.84B | 1.47B |
| Retained earnings | -1.50B | -1.46B | -1.83B | -2.45B | -2.51B | -2.57B | -2.46B | -2.73B |
| Line item | 2025-03 | 2025-06 | 2025-09 | 2025-12 | 2026-03 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total current assets | 1.76B | 1.44B | 1.46B | 1.34B | 1.39B | 1.43B |
| Cash & ST investments | 238.00M | 222.00M | 211.00M | 205.00M | 274.00M | 302.00M |
| Inventory | 133.00M | 135.00M | 139.00M | 111.00M | 118.00M | 126.00M |
| Total assets | 9.48B | 8.94B | 8.89B | 8.66B | 8.79B | 8.84B |
| Total current liabilities | 2.09B | 1.83B | 1.85B | 1.83B | 1.82B | 1.69B |
| Short-term debt | 928.00M | 918.00M | 919.00M | 925.00M | 935.00M | 936.00M |
| Long-term debt | 3.70B | 3.59B | 3.50B | 3.28B | 3.53B | 3.30B |
| Total liabilities | 7,658,000,000.00 | 7,276,000,000.00 | 7,280,000,000.00 | 7,196,000,000.00 | 7,311,000,000.00 | 6,993,000,000.00 |
| Total equity | 1.83B | 1.66B | 1.61B | 1.47B | 1.48B | 1.85B |
| Retained earnings | -2.43B | -2.55B | -2.63B | -2.73B | -2.74B | -2.70B |
Cash flow
| Line item | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 820.00M | 849.00M | 702.00M | 1.00B | 877.00M | 1.46B | 796.00M | 646.00M |
| Depreciation & amortization | 710.00M | 709.00M | 798.00M | 719.00M | 599.00M | 621.00M | 531.00M | 579.00M |
| Free cash flow | 523.00M | 418.00M | 202.00M | 512.00M | -72.00M | 576.00M | 469.00M | 384.00M |
| Dividends paid | -86.00M | -85.00M | -86.00M | -87.00M | -97.00M | -109.00M | -123.00M | -126.00M |
| Stock buybacks / issuance | -23.00M | -68.00M | -57.00M | 4.00M | -49.00M | -82.00M | -131.00M | -21.00M |
| Ending cash balance | 89.00M | 411.00M | 703.00M | 947.00M | 1.13B | 348.00M | 337.00M | 205.00M |
| Line item | 2025-03 | 2025-06 | 2025-09 | 2025-12 | 2026-03 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 7.00M | 157.00M | 251.00M | 231.00M | 123.00M | 62.00M |
| Depreciation & amortization | 146.00M | 150.00M | 135.00M | 148.00M | 105.00M | 105.00M |
| Free cash flow | -27.00M | 84.00M | 196.00M | 137.00M | 94.00M | 17.00M |
| Dividends paid | -31.00M | -31.00M | -33.00M | -31.00M | -32.00M | -34.00M |
| Stock buybacks / issuance | -3.00M | -21.00M | 2.00M | 1.00M | 0 | 338.00M |
| Ending cash balance | 238.00M | 222.00M | 211.00M | 205.00M | 274.00M | 302.00M |
Returns & efficiency
| Line item | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROE %i | -11.17 | 2.55 | -19.60 | -56.20 | 0.99 | 168.81 | 25.30 | -30.13 |
| ROA %i | -2.51 | 0.55 | -3.49 | -6.07 | 0.04 | 6.64 | 1.95 | -2.09 |
| ROIC %i | -1.33 | 3.77 | -3.47 | -9.51 | 3.07 | 17.93 | 6.74 | -0.61 |
| 5-year avg ROE %i | -1.77 | -2.52 | -6.24 | -18.42 | -16.68 | 19.31 | 23.86 | 21.75 |
| EBIT margin %i | 4.62 | 16.28 | -4.95 | -6.06 | 18.99 | 32.55 | 20.00 | 5.20 |
| FCF / sales %i | 23.25 | 17.81 | 9.61 | 18.82 | -- | 17.17 | 16.70 | 15.97 |
| Current ratioi | 1.49 | 1.20 | 2.03 | 1.14 | 1.29 | 0.91 | 0.69 | 0.73 |
| Quick ratioi | 0.84 | 0.74 | 1.32 | 0.80 | 0.84 | 0.58 | 0.38 | 0.44 |
| Debt / assetsi | 34.65 | 37.21 | 37.87 | 39.04 | 37.32 | 44.04 | 47.99 | 50.14 |
| LT debt / equityi | 151.78 | 149.83 | 254.33 | 430.94 | 2,270.24 | 550.92 | 402.49 | 747.92 |
| Interest coveragei | 0.52 | 2.02 | -0.52 | -0.77 | 2.67 | 5.15 | 2.28 | 0.47 |
| Revenue CAGR (3Y) %i | -0.27 | -0.70 | -3.07 | 6.56 | 8.24 | 16.88 | 1.50 | -6.85 |
| Net income CAGR (3Y) %i | -- | -21.42 | -- | -- | -15.20 | -- | -- | -- |
| FCF CAGR (3Y) %i | -- | 4.62 | -5.19 | -0.71 | -- | 41.80 | -2.88 | -- |
| Line item | 2025-03 | 2025-06 | 2025-09 | 2025-12 | 2026-03 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROE %i | 0.12 | -22.48 | -26.37 | -30.13 | -35.54 | -10.30 |
| ROA %i | 0.01 | -1.91 | -2.20 | -2.09 | -2.44 | -0.85 |
| ROIC %i | 3.15 | -0.01 | -0.60 | -0.61 | -1.92 | 0.90 |
| 5-year avg ROE %i | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| EBIT margin %i | 13.89 | 7.26 | 4.87 | 5.20 | 4.20 | 11.78 |
| FCF / sales %i | 10.28 | 12.25 | 14.17 | 15.97 | 22.83 | 19.33 |
| Current ratioi | 0.84 | 0.79 | 0.79 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 0.84 |
| Quick ratioi | 0.46 | 0.48 | 0.48 | 0.44 | 0.47 | 0.57 |
| Debt / assetsi | 48.79 | 50.46 | 49.65 | 50.14 | 50.79 | 47.94 |
| LT debt / equityi | 468.23 | 564.05 | 590.54 | 747.92 | 758.71 | 393.68 |
| Interest coveragei | 1.38 | 0.67 | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.36 | 1.03 |
| Revenue CAGR (3Y) %i | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Net income CAGR (3Y) %i | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| FCF CAGR (3Y) %i | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
✦ Quant Revenue Concentration how this is computed
Lead segment, long tail
- Gas is the largest reported line at 60.16% of revenue, across 7 reported segments.
- Wind and Solar follows at 23.61%, so the top line still matters most but isn’t the whole story.
Revenue breakdown most recent period
Business
Gas60.16%
Wind and Solar23.61%
Hydro20.53%
Energy Marketing5.54%
Energy Transition0.62%
Quote time 2026-10-08 07:40:16 · For reference only, not investment advice and not tailored to your situation.