Ratings West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.

Equities

WFG

CA9528451052

Market Closed - Toronto S.E. 04:00:00 2024-05-14 pm EDT 5-day change 1st Jan Change
108 CAD +0.71% Intraday chart for West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. +1.64% -4.68%

Summary

  • Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
  • The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.

Strengths

  • The company's profit outlook over the next few years is a strong asset.
  • The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.
  • With regards to fundamentals, the enterprise value to sales ratio is at 0.87 for the current period. Therefore, the company is undervalued.
  • The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
  • Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
  • For several months, analysts have been revising their EPS estimates roughly upwards.
  • Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
  • The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
  • Analyst opinion has improved significantly over the past four months.
  • Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
  • The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.

Weaknesses

  • According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
  • The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
  • For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
  • For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.

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Sector: Forest & Wood Products

1st Jan change Capi. Investor Rating ESG Refinitiv
-5.35% 6.39B
A-
-24.74% 664M
B+
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Financials

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Consensus

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Business Predictability

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