Is Weyerhaeuser Co.’s (NYSE: WY) -3.68% Loss This Week Telling Us Something New?

During the last session, Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE:WY)’s traded shares were 2.66 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.44. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $34.59, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.14% or -$0.05. The 52-week high for the WY share is $36.27, that puts it down -4.86 from that peak though still a striking 19.05% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $28.00. The company’s market capitalization is $25.23B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 3.17 million shares, and the average trade volume was 3.57 million shares over the past three months.

Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE:WY) trade information

Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) registered a -0.14% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.14% in intraday trading to $34.59, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -3.68%, and it has moved by 0.09% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 15.98%. The short interest in Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE:WY) is 6.92 million shares and it means that shorts have 1.88 day(s) to cover.

Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Weyerhaeuser Co. has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) shares have gone up 16.14% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at 3.92% against 19.30. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to shrink -9.50% this quarter and then jump 3.10% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 2.30% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be $1.86 billion as predicted by 8 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 8 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to $2.07 billion by the end of Jun 2024. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled $1.88 billion and $2 billion respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -0.90% and then jump by 3.80% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 3.00%. While earnings are projected to return 1.88% in 2024, the next five years will return 5.00% per annum.

WY Dividends

Weyerhaeuser Co. is due to release its next quarterly earnings between April 25 and April 29. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Weyerhaeuser Co. is 0.77, with the dividend yield indicating at 2.23 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.

Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE:WY)’s Major holders

Weyerhaeuser Co. insiders own 0.26% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 86.01%, with the float percentage being 86.24%. Vanguard Group Inc is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1,378 institutions own stock in it. As of Jun 29, 2023, the company held over 117.37 million shares (or 16.06% of all shares), a total value of $3.93 billion in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 61.77 million shares, is of Blackrock Inc.’s that is approximately 8.45% of outstanding shares. At the market price on Jun 29, 2023, these shares were valued at $2.07 billion.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) shares are Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. Data provided on Jul 30, 2023 indicates that Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund owns about 30.88 million shares. This amounts to just over 4.23 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $1.05 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 22.83 million, or about 3.12% of the stock, which is worth about $765.0 million.