Desjardins Lowers Stella-Jones (TSE:SJ) Price Target to C$94.00

Stella-Jones (TSE:SJ) had its price objective lowered by stock analysts at Desjardins from C$98.00 to C$94.00 in a research note issued on Thursday,BayStreet.CA reports. The firm presently has a “buy” rating on the stock. Desjardins’ price target points to a potential upside of 27.68% from the stock’s previous close. Desjardins also issued estimates for Stella-Jones’ Q2 2025 earnings at $1.84 EPS, Q3 2025 earnings at $1.58 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $0.97 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $6.02 EPS.

SJ has been the topic of a number of other reports. Cibc World Mkts upgraded shares of Stella-Jones from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 14th. Royal Bank of Canada raised their target price on shares of Stella-Jones from C$75.00 to C$76.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Thursday. CIBC reduced their price target on shares of Stella-Jones from C$86.00 to C$79.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, April 22nd. Finally, Scotiabank lowered their price objective on shares of Stella-Jones from C$85.00 to C$79.00 in a research note on Monday, March 3rd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, four have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average target price of C$86.17.

Stella-Jones Stock Performance

Shares of SJ stock opened at C$73.62 on Thursday. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of C$67.25 and a 200 day simple moving average of C$70.76. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 87.53, a current ratio of 6.85 and a quick ratio of 1.20. The firm has a market capitalization of C$4.12 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.86, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.40 and a beta of 0.64. Stella-Jones has a 12-month low of C$62.26 and a 12-month high of C$98.00.

Insider Buying and Selling at Stella-Jones

In other news, Director James Augustus Manzi sold 1,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, April 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of C$65.79, for a total transaction of C$65,788.60. 0.14% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Stella-Jones Company Profile

Stella-Jones Inc produces and sells lumber and wood products. The company operates in two segments: Pressure-treated wood, which includes utility poles, railway ties, residential lumber, and industrial products; and Logs & Lumber segment comprises of the sales of logs harvested in the course of the company’s procurement process that is determined to be unsuitable for use as utility poles, it also includes the sale of excess lumber to local home-building markets.