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TAC Short Interest

TransAlta Corporation
1W: -0.8% 1M: +9.0% 3M: +3.5% YTD: -0.8% 1Y: -25.2% 3Y: +73.9% 5Y: +24.2%
$12.87
+0.60 (+4.89%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±5.7%
$11 $12 $12 $13 $14
NYSE · Utilities · Independent Power Producers · Tech Score Neutral · Power 56 · $4.1B mcap · 266M float · 0.631% daily turnover · Short 53% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: higher than 62% of companies Debt: 42.6% of company value Bonds: none of note held by US funds details ▾
If the stock fell to about $0.78 (down 94%), TransAlta Corporation would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $3.02B against a stock market value of $4.07B.
Distance to default 4.04 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-27, balance sheet 2026-06-30, debt counted $1.84B (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 41.0%; Altman Z'' -0.71. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
US fund filings (SEC N-PORT) show under $25M of this company's bonds, so there is no bond page. Its debt may be bank loans or privately placed. How these are computed.

Short Volume Summary

2026-10-26
41.1%
Short Ratio
of total volume
61.6%
20-Day Avg
64.9%
50-Day Avg
▼ Falling
5-Day Trend
0.1M
Short Volume
0.2M
Total Volume

Daily Short Volume Ratio

Short Volume vs Total Volume

Exchange Breakdown

2026-10-26
ExchangeShort VolumeTotal VolumeShort %
NASDAQ 80,024 194,773 41.1%
NYSE 3,743 10,063 37.2%
BATS 956 1,126 84.9%

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