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EUR 700.58 For Business Accounts Only

Weyerhaeuser Company, PotlatchDeltic Corporation and Rayonier Inc.: Peer comparison: Weyerhaeuser best positioned with significant scale, strong market positions and diversity

Weyerhaeuser has multiple levers it can pull in a downturn versus its timber real estate investment trust peers, Rayonier and PotlatchDeltic.
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PotlatchDeltic Corporation

PotlatchDeltic is a real estate investment trust. The company's businesses are organized into three reportable operating segments: Resource, which engages in activities such as hunting leases, recreation permits and leases, mineral rights leases, biomass production and carbon sequestration; Wood Products, which manufactures and markets lumber, plywood and residual products primarily for use in home building, repair and remodeling, industrial products and other construction activity; and Real Estate, which consists primarily of the sale of non-core timberlands in the categories of other use, rural recreational real estate and non-strategic properties.

Rayonier Inc.

Rayonier is a timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in the softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. The company operates in five reportable business segments: Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber, New Zealand Timber, Real Estate and Trading. The Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber and New Zealand Timber segments include all activities related to the harvesting of timber in addition to lease and license activities, other non-timber activities and carbon credit sales. The company's Real Estate segment reflects all of its land or leasehold sales. The Trading segment reflects the log trading activities conducted by its New Zealand subsidiary.

Weyerhaeuser Company

Weyerhaeuser is a real estate investment trust. The company's business segments are: Timberlands, which provides delivered logs (grade logs and fiber logs), timber, recreational leases and other products; Real Estate, Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), in which Real Estate sells timberland tracts for recreational, conservation, commercial or residential purposes, whereas ENR sells rights to explore, extract and sell construction aggregates (rock, sand and gravel), industrial materials and oil and natural gas; and Wood Products, which provides structural lumber, oriented strand board, wood products, other products, and complementary building products.

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