Stella-Jones Q1 EPS Decreased by National Bank Financial

Stella-Jones Inc. (TSE:SJ) – Equities researchers at National Bank Financial cut their Q1 2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of Stella-Jones in a research note issued to investors on Thursday, February 27th. National Bank Financial analyst M. Sytchev now expects that the company will post earnings of $1.16 per share for the quarter, down from their previous estimate of $1.28. The consensus estimate for Stella-Jones’ current full-year earnings is $6.45 per share. National Bank Financial also issued estimates for Stella-Jones’ Q2 2025 earnings at $1.87 EPS.

Several other equities analysts also recently commented on SJ. Scotiabank decreased their price objective on shares of Stella-Jones from C$85.00 to C$79.00 in a report on Monday. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their price target on shares of Stella-Jones from C$97.00 to C$81.00 in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. TD Securities cut their price objective on shares of Stella-Jones from C$103.00 to C$88.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Cibc World Mkts upgraded Stella-Jones from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 14th. Finally, CIBC upgraded Stella-Jones from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and increased their target price for the stock from C$83.00 to C$86.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 15th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, three have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of C$86.60.

Stella-Jones Trading Down 4.5 %

Shares of Stella-Jones stock opened at C$68.67 on Monday. Stella-Jones has a 12-month low of C$65.13 and a 12-month high of C$98.00. The stock has a market cap of C$3.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.99, a P/E/G ratio of 2.40 and a beta of 0.64. The company has a quick ratio of 1.20, a current ratio of 6.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 87.53. The business’s 50 day moving average is C$70.44 and its 200-day moving average is C$78.91.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Stella-Jones news, Director Patrick Kirkham acquired 2,035 shares of Stella-Jones stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 19th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of C$70.36 per share, with a total value of C$143,179.34. 0.14% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Stella-Jones Increases Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, April 18th. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 1st will be given a $0.31 dividend. This represents a $1.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.81%. This is a boost from Stella-Jones’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.28. Stella-Jones’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 19.56%.

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.