Weyerhaeuser Co (WY): Today's Featured Real Estate Laggard
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) pushed the Real Estate industry lower today making it today's featured Real Estate laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.7%. By the end of trading, Weyerhaeuser fell $0.34 (-1.2%) to $27.38 on light volume. Throughout the day, 3,761,820 shares of Weyerhaeuser exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6,074,800 shares. The stock ranged in price between $27.28-$27.71 after having opened the day at $27.69 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $27.72. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that declined today were:
Wheeler Real Estate Investment
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), down 5.9%,
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), down 4.3%,
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), down 4.0% and
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), down 3.6%.
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 $16.1 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. Shares are down 0.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate Weyerhaeuser a buy, 4 analysts rate it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Weyerhaeuser
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
- You can view the full Weyerhaeuser Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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