Weyerhaeuser Co (WY): Today's Featured Real Estate Winner

Weyerhaeuser (WY) pushed the Real Estate industry higher today making it today's featured real estate winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.2%. By the end of trading, Weyerhaeuser rose 32 cents (1.4%) to $23.79 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3.7 million shares of Weyerhaeuser exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.7 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $23.35-$23.98 after having opened the day at $23.56 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $23.47. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that increased today were: Tree.com (TREE), up 9.8%, IFM Investments (CTC), up 8.6%, Chimera Investment Corporation (CIM), up 8.3%, and Bluegreen Corporation (BXG), up 6.6%.

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Weyerhaeuser Company, a forest products company, grows and harvests trees, builds homes, and manufactures forest products worldwide. It grows and harvests trees for use as lumber, other wood and building products, and pulp and paper. Weyerhaeuser has a market cap of $12.71 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 39.4, above the average real estate industry P/E ratio of 36.4 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 26.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are two analysts that rate Weyerhaeuser a buy, five analysts rate it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Weyerhaeuser as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, increase in net income, revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

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On the negative front, Institutional Financial Markets (IFMI), down 5.2%, Hospitality Properties (HPT), down 3.9%, Alto Palermo (APSA), down 3.8%, and Vestin Realty Mortgage I (VRTA), down 3.6%, were all laggards within the real estate industry with UDR (UDR) being today's real estate industry laggard.

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