Scotiabank Reduces Earnings Estimates for West Fraser Timber

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (TSE:WFG) – Investment analysts at Scotiabank lowered their Q2 2025 EPS estimates for West Fraser Timber in a research note issued on Monday, July 21st. Scotiabank analyst B. Isaacson now expects that the company will post earnings of $1.30 per share for the quarter, down from their previous forecast of $1.48. The consensus estimate for West Fraser Timber’s current full-year earnings is $8.12 per share.

A number of other brokerages also recently issued reports on WFG. Raymond James Financial downgraded shares of West Fraser Timber from a “moderate buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday. CIBC decreased their price objective on West Fraser Timber from C$170.00 to C$142.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, April 22nd.

West Fraser Timber Price Performance

TSE WFG opened at C$102.70 on Tuesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.82, a quick ratio of 2.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 7.39. West Fraser Timber has a 12 month low of C$98.05 and a 12 month high of C$141.27. The stock has a market cap of C$5.72 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -61.40 and a beta of 2.03. The company’s 50 day moving average is C$102.33 and its two-hundred day moving average is C$109.20.

West Fraser Timber Company Profile

West Fraser Timber Co Ltd., a diversified wood products company, engages in manufacturing, selling, marketing, and distributing lumber, engineered wood products, pulp, newsprint, wood chips, and other residuals and renewable energy. It offers spruce-pine-fir, douglas fir-larch, hem-fir, and southern yellow pine lumber, treated wood products, medium density fiberboard panels and plywood, oriented strand board, and laminated veneer lumber wood products, as well as particleboards.