Navigating Weyerhaeuser's Stock Performance

By Scott Lee • Monday, June 02 15:17 • Permanent Link

Weyerhaeuser logged a -1.1% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $25.62 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 0.0%. WY's trading volume is 1,793,345 compared to the stock's average volume of 4,073,990.

Weyerhaeuser trades -24.12% away from its average analyst target price of $33.77 per share. The 13 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $30.0 to $38.0, and on average have given Weyerhaeuser a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying WY should be aware of the facts below:

Weyerhaeuser's current price is 101.3% above its Graham number of $12.73, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Weyerhaeuser has moved -12.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 11.9%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 0.49, Weyerhaeuser has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 52.3 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
WY has a forward P/E ratio of 29.8 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $0.86 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 1.93 compared to its sector average of 1.94
Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, began operations in 1900.
Based in Seattle, the company has 9,400 full time employees and a market cap of $18.59 Billion. Weyerhaeuser currently returns an annual dividend yield of 3.1%.

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