Dividends

TACTransAlta Corporation

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−1.6% today · −21.3% over a year

1/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 14% of the instruments we score

Quality: among the weakest; priced higher than most peers. Dividend yield 1.14%.

TransAlta Corporation (TAC) dividends: trailing yield 1.14%, Dividend Safety 40/100, 5-year growth 1.1% a year.

Trailing 12-month yieldA high yield can signal risk rather than safety: payouts may be cut, and part of a fund's distribution may be your own capital returned.
1.14%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
1.55%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$0.15
Payments per year
4
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
40 / 100
Borderline

Yield after tax (estimate)

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Next payment

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Dividend profile

5-year dividend growth (per year)
+1.1%
Years without a lower dividend
0
Years without a cut of over 10 %
0
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
13%

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2016 $0.03, 2017 $0.124, 2018 $0.092, 2019 $0.12, 2020 $0.128, 2021 $0.148, 2022 $0.158, 2023 $0.162, 2024 $0.175, 2025 $0.1362016: $0.032017: $0.1242018: $0.0922019: $0.122020: $0.1282021: $0.1482022: $0.1582023: $0.1622024: $0.1752025: $0.136

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Status
01 Sep 2026—$0.051RegularSingle source1
01 Jun 2026—$0.051RegularSingle source1
27 Feb 2026—$0.048RegularSingle source1
29 Aug 2025—$0.047RegularSingle source1

Each payment is checked against 1 data feed. Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.

What dividend safety is made of

0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.

Similar dividend payers

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