Report
Charles Gross
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Lumber Companies Poised to Profit as Millennials Form Households

Favorable U.S. demographics should lift lumber companies Canfor and West Fraser Timber to record profits in the years to come. But due to an eventual supply response and the lack of economic moats, heady profitability is likely to prove fleeting, and we don't regard either stock as a buy.
The largest generation in U.S. history--the millennials--are entering their 30s, the age at which Americans tend to form households. To date, their arrival has been disappointing, as employment and wages for t...
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Canfor Corporation

Canfor is an integrated forest products company with facilities in Canada and the U.S. Co. has two reportable segments: Lumber and Pulp and Paper. The Lumber segment includes logging operations, and manufacturing and sale of various grades, widths and lengths of lumber, engineered wood products, wood chips and wood pellets. The Pulp and Paper segment includes purchase of residual fibre, and production and sale of pulp and paper products, including Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft and Bleached Chemi-Thermo Mechanical Pulp as well as energy revenues.

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Charles Gross

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