Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$70.20
-0.27% today
1Y Change
-8.77%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (WFG) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $4.52B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $70.20 and down 8.8% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +23.5%, EPS growth of -22218.1%, a dividend yield of 2.2%. What stands out right now is revenue +23.5%, EPS -22218.1%, free cash flow -350.3% with operating margin -29.9% and ROIC -20.9%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 2.2%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at price/sales 0.8. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a higher-growth but lower-margin setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines WFG price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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WFG
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Normalized return
SPY
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Relative to SPY
WFG Max Drawdown
-25.72%
Trailing 1Y
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Trailing 1Y
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Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$10.5B
+8.4% YoY
FY Net Income
$2.9B
+49.2% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$2.9B
+65.0% YoY
Revenue Growth
+23.5%
EPS Growth
-22218.1%
Gross Margin
10.0%
Net Margin
-25.1%
Income statement
CAD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 7.6B | 6.2B | 6.5B | 9.7B | 10.5B |
| Gross Profit | -45M | 1.8B | 1.8B | 4.6B | 5.9B |
| Operating Income | -663M | 7M | -284M | 2.6B | 3.9B |
| EBITDA | 96M | 614M | 337M | 3.2B | 4.5B |
| Net Income | -1.3B | -5M | -167M | 2.0B | 2.9B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
CAD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 277M | 641M | 900M | 1.2B | 2.0B |
| Total Assets | 10.4B | 8.8B | 9.4B | 10.0B | 13.3B |
| Total Liabilities | 2.4B | 1.8B | 2.2B | 2.4B | 3.5B |
| Shareholder Equity | 8.0B | 7.0B | 7.2B | 7.6B | 9.7B |
| Total Debt | 457M | 229M | 538M | 536M | 671M |
| Net Debt | 180M | -412M | -362M | -626M | -1.3B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
3.5B
+57.9% YoY
Capital Expenditures
629M
-32.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
2.9B
+65.0% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
10.0%
Operating Margin
-29.9%
Net Margin
-25.1%
ROE
-23.1%
Debt / Equity
0.09x
Next Step
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