Weyerhaeuser Co (NYSE: WY) Not A Good Play Anymore?

Weyerhaeuser Co (WY) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $29.56, with 4.75 million shares of worth about $140.29 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -0.57% during that period and on January 15, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.07%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 726.76M shares, out of which, 723.80M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 5.53% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -2.76%. Year-to-date (YTD), WY shares are showing a performance of 5.01% which decreased to -11.73% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $26.73 but also hit the highest price of $36.27 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Weyerhaeuser Co shares is 3.43 million. The stock is currently trading 4.59% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -1.72% for SMA50 and it goes to -4.14% lower than SMA200.

Weyerhaeuser Co (NYSE: WY) currently have 726.76M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 87.98% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $21.48B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.42. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 40.43, while it has posted earnings per share of $0.73 in the same period. It has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.51. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for WY, volatility over the week remained 2.64% while standing at 2.37% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -52.65% while it is estimated to increase by 82.33% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of -13.66% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 3.00% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by CIBC on Jan-16-25 offering a Sector outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $35 to it. Coverage by Raymond James stated Weyerhaeuser Co (WY) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on December 23, 2024, suggesting a price target of $32 for the stock. Stock get a Buy rating from BofA Securities on July 10, 2023.

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