Transcontinental (TCL.A) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Transcontinental, or TC Transcontinental, is a Canadian printer and flexible packaging provider that operates in three segments: packaging, printing, and other. Its packaging segment features the production of different plastic products geared toward consumer goods. Production plants specialize in extrusion, lamination, printing, and converting. The company offers premedia, printing, and distribution services through the printing segment. Publishers, retailers, cataloguers, and marketers are some of the customers who tap TC Transcontinental for these printing solutions. The smaller other segment focuses on the media sector, which generates revenue from print and digital publishing products.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: C$5.05 to C$5.15
• 50-Day Range: C$4.86 to C$5.75
• 52-Week Range: C$4.16 to C$25.65
• Volume: 38,227 shs
• Average Volume: 620,208 shs
• Market Capitalization: C$426.46 million
• P/E Ratio: 1.28
• Dividend Yield: 9.80%
• Price Target: C$9.86
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Transcontinental Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Transcontinental scored higher than 75% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.8 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Transcontinental has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.71, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 5 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Transcontinental has a consensus price target of C$9.86, representing about 92.5% upside from its current price of C$5.12.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Transcontinental has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Transcontinental is 1.29, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 39.11.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Transcontinental is 1.29, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Industrials sector average P/E ratio of about 25.61.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Transcontinental has a PEG Ratio of 6.05. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Transcontinental has a P/B Ratio of 0.23. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for TCL.A.

Dividend

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Moderate

Dividend Leadership

Transcontinental is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 11.32%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend Growth

Transcontinental does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of Transcontinental is 12.56%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.0 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.26

News Sentiment

Transcontinental has a news sentiment score of 0.26. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.76 average news sentiment score of Industrials companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 9 news articles for Transcontinental this week, compared to 1 article on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 1 people have searched for TCL.A on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -50% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 0.3 / 5
• Insider Trading: N/A

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Transcontinental insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.25% of the stock of Transcontinental is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

24.01% of the stock of Transcontinental is held by institutions.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 6/06/2014
• Today: 9/14/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: TSE
• Sector: Industrials
• Industry: Commercial Services & Supplies
• Sub-Industry: Commercial Printing
• Current Symbol: TSE:TCL.A
• CIK: N/A
• Web: tctranscontinental.com
• Phone: +1-514-9544000
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 9,000
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Transcontinental: C$9.86
• High Price Target: C$26.00
• Low Price Target: C$6.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +94.0%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.71
• Research Coverage: 7 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): C$3.98
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 1.28
• Forward P/E Ratio: 2.08
• P/E Growth: 6.05
• Net Income: C$115.10 million
• Net Margins: 4.05%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: 6.16%
• Return on Assets: 4.34%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 54.12
• Current Ratio: 1.49
• Quick Ratio: 1.09

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: C$2.75 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.15
• Cash Flow: C$0.10 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 53.34
• Book Value: C$22.08 per share
• Price / Book: 0.23

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 83,619,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: C$424.78 million
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 0.48