TD Securities Trims Cascades (TSE:CAS) Target Price to C$11.00

Cascades (TSE:CAS) had its target price cut by TD Securities from C$12.00 to C$11.00 in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday morning, BayStreet.CA reports. They currently have a buy rating on the stock.

CAS has been the subject of a number of other research reports. CIBC lowered their target price on shares of Cascades from C$14.00 to C$12.00 in a research note on Thursday, April 11th. Royal Bank of Canada downgraded shares of Cascades from an outperform rating to a sector perform rating and decreased their price objective for the company from C$15.00 to C$14.00 in a research note on Friday, February 23rd. Desjardins decreased their price objective on shares of Cascades from C$14.50 to C$13.00 and set a hold rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 28th. Finally, National Bankshares decreased their price objective on shares of Cascades from C$13.50 to C$11.00 in a research note on Thursday, April 11th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of Hold and a consensus price target of C$12.20.

Cascades Stock Performance

Shares of CAS stock opened at C$9.19 on Tuesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.33, a quick ratio of 0.86 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 108.76. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of C$10.69 and a 200 day moving average price of C$11.94. The company has a market cap of C$925.52 million, a P/E ratio of -12.09, a PEG ratio of 0.56 and a beta of 0.06. Cascades has a 12 month low of C$9.14 and a 12 month high of C$15.00.

Cascades (TSE:CAS) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 22nd. The company reported C$0.05 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of C$0.30 by C($0.25). The firm had revenue of C$1.14 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of C$1.22 billion. Cascades had a negative return on equity of 2.86% and a negative net margin of 1.64%. Sell-side analysts predict that Cascades will post 0.8298611 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Cascades Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a 1 dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 7th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, March 21st were issued a $0.48 dividend. This represents a dividend yield of 4.66%. This is a boost from Cascades’s previous 1 dividend of $0.12. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, March 21st. Cascades’s dividend payout ratio is presently -63.16%.

About Cascades

Cascades Inc produces, converts, and markets packaging and tissue products in Canada and the United States. The company operates through three segments: Containerboard, Specialty Products, and Tissue Papers. It offers various packaging solutions and tissue products comprised of recycled fibers; tissue papers, comprising parent rolls of virgin and recycled fibres; specialty products, including uncoated recycled boxboards; and containerboards.