Most actively traded companies on the TSX

Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:

Toronto Stock Exchange (15,234.34, down 6.82 points):

Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:PWT). Oil and gas. Up five cents, or 2.03 per cent, to $2.51 on 27.9 million shares.

Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Aerospace, rail equipment. Down one cent, or 0.38 per cent, to $2.60 on 23.9 million shares. Its newest plane, the Bombardier CS300, made a five-hour test flight Friday, carrying Bombardier’s hopes for recovering confidence in the company following repeated delays and mounting costs for its new line of passenger jets.

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX:PRE). Oil and gas. Down six cents, or 1.58 per cent, to $3.73 on 18.4 million shares.

Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Financial services. Down one cent, or 0.05 per cent, to $21.77 on 8.9 million shares.

BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE). Media. Down 34 cents, or 0.62 per cent, to $54.71 on 8.6 million shares.

Harte Gold Corp. (TSX:HRT). Miner. Up 1.5 cents, or 37.50 per cent, to 5.5 cents on 5.5 million shares.

Companies reporting major news:

Aimia Inc. (TSX:AIM). Loyalty programs. Down $1.50, or 10.45 per cent, to $12.85 on 8.2 million shares. It posted adjusted earnings of $60 million or 20 cents a share, four cents short of forecasts, although revenue of $761.1 million beat estimates.

Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY), Bank. Up 24 cents, or 0.31 per cent, to $78.31 on 3.8 million shares. Brand Finance ranked RBC the country’s most valuable corporate brand for the second year in a row, estimating its brand value at US$12.5 billion — up from just over US$11 billion in 2014.