Stella-Jones Inc. (TSE:SJ) Receives C$95.71 Average Price Target from Analysts

Shares of Stella-Jones Inc. (TSE:SJ) have earned an average rating of “Moderate Buy” from the seven research firms that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month price target among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is C$95.71.

A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on the stock. TD Securities increased their target price on shares of Stella-Jones from C$90.00 to C$97.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 6th. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their price objective on shares of Stella-Jones from C$78.00 to C$87.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. National Bankshares raised their target price on shares of Stella-Jones from C$95.00 to C$107.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, December 15th. Desjardins set a C$102.00 target price on Stella-Jones and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, December 12th. Finally, CIBC dropped their price target on Stella-Jones from C$90.00 to C$89.00 in a research report on Friday, November 7th.

Stella-Jones Price Performance

Shares of Stella-Jones stock opened at C$88.81 on Monday. The stock has a market capitalization of C$4.88 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.54, a PEG ratio of 2.40 and a beta of -0.24. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of C$85.11 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of C$81.16. Stella-Jones has a 12 month low of C$62.26 and a 12 month high of C$89.61. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 87.53, a current ratio of 6.85 and a quick ratio of 1.20.

Stella-Jones (TSE:SJ) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 5th. The company reported C$1.59 EPS for the quarter. The firm had revenue of C$958.00 million during the quarter. Stella-Jones had a return on equity of 18.36% and a net margin of 9.43%. As a group, analysts predict that Stella-Jones will post 6.4457565 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

In related news, Director Michelle Annette Banik bought 472 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, November 12th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of C$84.60 per share, with a total value of C$39,931.20. Following the purchase, the director directly owned 472 shares of the company’s stock, valued at C$39,931.20. The trade was a ∞ increase in their ownership of the stock. 0.14% of the stock is owned by company 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. The vast majority of its revenue comes from the Pressure-treated wood segment.