Compare Stocks: WEF, AXS, GDL, and CFF

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AXS Axis Capital	$102.29 -0.2%	$98.53	$88.07 ▼ $119.99	$7.48B	0.45	N/A	631,849 shs
CFF Conifex Timber	C$0.11 -4.5%	C$0.11	C$0.06 ▼ C$0.25	C$4.28M	0.178493	71,316 shs	22,233 shs
GDL The GDL Fund	$8.33 +0.2%	$8.37	$8.01 ▼ $8.67	N/A	N/A	10,704 shs	26,912 shs
WEF Western Forest Products	C$16.09 +1.1%	C$17.10	C$10.16 ▼ C$19.95	C$169.88M	-0.05629	38,606 shs	16,521 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AXS Axis Capital	-0.26%	+1.86%	+8.18%	-3.52%	+12.17%
CFF Conifex Timber	0.00%	-4.55%	-4.55%	-16.00%	-54.35%
GDL The GDL Fund	+0.06%	-0.06%	-0.36%	-0.77%	-2.17%
WEF Western Forest Products	+1.07%	+12.20%	-11.74%	-9.45%	+33.86%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AXS Axis Capital	$102.29 -0.2%	$98.53	$88.07 ▼ $119.99	$7.48B	0.45	N/A	631,849 shs
CFF Conifex Timber	C$0.11 -4.5%	C$0.11	C$0.06 ▼ C$0.25	C$4.28M	0.178493	71,316 shs	22,233 shs
GDL The GDL Fund	$8.33 +0.2%	$8.37	$8.01 ▼ $8.67	N/A	N/A	10,704 shs	26,912 shs
WEF Western Forest Products	C$16.09 +1.1%	C$17.10	C$10.16 ▼ C$19.95	C$169.88M	-0.05629	38,606 shs	16,521 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AXS Axis Capital	-0.26%	+1.86%	+8.18%	-3.52%	+12.17%
CFF Conifex Timber	0.00%	-4.55%	-4.55%	-16.00%	-54.35%
GDL The GDL Fund	+0.06%	-0.06%	-0.36%	-0.77%	-2.17%
WEF Western Forest Products	+1.07%	+12.20%	-11.74%	-9.45%	+33.86%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AXS Axis Capital	2.77	Moderate Buy	$119.08	16.41% Upside
CFF Conifex Timber	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
GDL The GDL Fund	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
WEF Western Forest Products	2.00	Hold	C$17.80	10.63% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest WEF, AXS, GDL, and CFF Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/14/2026	WEF Western Forest Products	TD Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Hold	C$20.00 ➝ C$17.00
10/12/2026	AXS Axis Capital	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$126.00 ➝ $112.00
10/9/2026	AXS Axis Capital	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Strong Sell ➝ Hold
10/8/2026	AXS Axis Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Buy (B+) ➝ Buy (A-)
10/7/2026	AXS Axis Capital	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$118.00 ➝ $116.00
9/21/2026	AXS Axis Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Buy (A-) ➝ Buy (B+)
9/16/2026	AXS Axis Capital	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$130.00 ➝ $118.00
9/2/2026	AXS Axis Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Buy (B+) ➝ Buy (A-)
8/25/2026	AXS Axis Capital	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$130.00
8/18/2026	AXS Axis Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Buy (A-) ➝ Buy (B+)
8/14/2026	WEF Western Forest Products	TD Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Hold	C$19.00 ➝ C$20.00

(Data available from 10/28/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AXS Axis Capital	$6.85B	1.09	N/A	N/A	N/A	∞
CFF Conifex Timber	C$109.03M	0.04	C$0.03 per share	3.02	C$0.75 per share	0.14
GDL The GDL Fund	$8.21M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
WEF Western Forest Products	C$876M	0.19	C$1.58 per share	10.18	C$45.06 per share	0.36

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AXS Axis Capital	N/A	$14.08	7.27	7.60	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	10/28/2026 (Estimated)
CFF Conifex Timber	-C$22.42M	-C$1.14	N/A	N/A	0.06	-43.14%	-103.21%	-9.15%	N/A
GDL The GDL Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
WEF Western Forest Products	-C$43.70M	-C$8.00	N/A	N/A	0.32	-9.64%	-17.78%	-4.24%	N/A

Latest WEF, AXS, GDL, and CFF Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
10/28/2026	Q3 2026	AXS Axis Capital	$2.85	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.69 billion	N/A
8/14/2026	Q2 2026	CFF Conifex Timber	N/A	-C$0.23	N/A	-C$0.23	N/A	C$23.00 million
8/12/2026	Q2 2026	WEF Western Forest Products	N/A	C$1.10	N/A	C$1.10	N/A	C$239.60 million
7/29/2026	Q2 2026	AXS Axis Capital	$3.25	$2.84	-$0.41	$3.38	$1.74 billion	$1.75 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AXS Axis Capital	$1.76	1.72%	+1.30%	12.50%	N/A
CFF Conifex Timber	N/A	4.69%	N/A	N/A	N/A
GDL The GDL Fund	$0.48	5.77%	N/A	N/A	N/A
WEF Western Forest Products	N/A	6.67%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest WEF, AXS, GDL, and CFF Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
9/16/2026	AXS Axis Capital	quarterly	$0.44	1.87%	9/30/2026	9/30/2026	10/15/2026
8/12/2026	GDL The GDL Fund	quarterly	$0.12	5.72%	9/16/2026	9/16/2026	9/23/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AXS Axis Capital	N/A	N/A	N/A
CFF Conifex Timber	330.49	0.68	0.91
GDL The GDL Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
WEF Western Forest Products	12.63	2.44	0.73

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AXS Axis Capital	93.44%
CFF Conifex Timber	69.61%
GDL The GDL Fund	N/A
WEF Western Forest Products	14.25%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AXS Axis Capital	0.60%
CFF Conifex Timber	6.64%
GDL The GDL Fund	N/A
WEF Western Forest Products	0.67%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AXS Axis Capital	1,966	72.97 million	72.53 million	Optionable
CFF Conifex Timber	244	40.77 million	N/A	Not Optionable
GDL The GDL Fund	147,000	N/A	N/A	Not Optionable
WEF Western Forest Products	1,627	10.56 million	N/A	Not Optionable

WEF, AXS, GDL, and CFF Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) Share Price Breaks Below 200-Day Moving Average - What's Next?

October 22, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) Given New C$17.00 Price Target at TD

October 14, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) Stock Price Crosses Below 200 Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?

October 8, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Western Forest Products Inc (WEF)

October 3, 2026 | ca.investing.com

Western Forest Products Inc. (WEF:CA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

August 13, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Insider Selling: Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) Director Sells C$34,290.00 in Stock

July 18, 2026 | insidertrades.com

Bullish on Western Forest Products

July 14, 2026 | theglobeandmail.com

Western Forest Prod (WEF) Gets a Hold from RBC Capital

May 25, 2026 | theglobeandmail.com

How The Western Forest Products (TSX:WEF) Story Is Shifting With New Targets And Production Data

April 14, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

How The Western Forest Products (TSX:WEF) Story Is Shifting With New Targets And Production Trends

March 16, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Western Announces Ratification of La-kwa sa muqw Forestry Limited Partnership and United Steelworkers Agreement

March 4, 2026 | theglobeandmail.com

How The Western Forest Products (TSX:WEF) Narrative Is Shifting With The New CA$15.13 Valuation

March 2, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Western Forest Products and Tla’amin Nation Announce Milestone Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of Western’s Stillwater Forest Operation

February 20, 2026 | markets.businessinsider.com

Western Forest Products Enters Into New $30 Million Bilateral Term Loan

February 17, 2026 | markets.businessinsider.com

Canadian Analyst Updates: February 11th, 2026

February 11, 2026 | theglobeandmail.com

Western Forest Products Inc.: Western Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025 Results

February 11, 2026 | finanznachrichten.de

individual investors who own 49% along with institutions invested in Western Forest Products Inc. (TSE:WEF) saw increase in their holdings value last week

January 17, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Elizabeth Kernaghan Acquires 4,900 Shares of Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) Stock

November 8, 2025 | insidertrades.com

Western Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results

November 7, 2025 | markets.businessinsider.com

Kernaghan buying more Western Forest Products (WEF)

November 4, 2025 | theglobeandmail.com

Earnings To Watch: Western Forest Products Inc (TSX:WEF) Reports Q3 2025 Result

November 4, 2025 | finance.yahoo.com

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WEF, AXS, GDL, and CFF Company Descriptions

Axis Capital NYSE:AXS

$102.29 -0.17 (-0.16%)

Closing price 10/27/2026 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$102.20 -0.09 (-0.09%)

As of 10/27/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides various specialty insurance and reinsurance products in Bermuda, the United States, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment offers professional insurance products that cover directors' and officers' liability, errors and omissions, employment practices, fiduciary, crime, professional indemnity, medical malpractice, and other financial insurance related coverages for commercial enterprises, financial institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and other professional service providers; and property insurance products for commercial buildings, residential premises, construction projects, property in transit, onshore renewable energy installations, and physical damage and business interruption following an act of terrorism. This segment also provides marine and aviation insurance services for offshore energy, renewable offshore energy, cargo, liability, including kidnap and ransom, fine art, specie, and hull war, hull and liability, and specific war coverage for passenger airlines, cargo operations, general aviation operations, airports, aviation authorities, security firms, and product manufacturers; personal accident, travel insurance, specialty health products for employer and affinity groups, and pet insurance products; and liability, cyber, and credit and political risk insurance services. The Reinsurance segment offers agriculture, marine and aviation, catastrophe, accidental and health, credit and surety, motor, professional, travel, life, engineering, property, and liability reinsurance products. AXIS Capital Holdings Limited was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda.

Conifex Timber TSE:CFF

C$0.10 -0.01 (-4.55%)

As of 10/27/2026 10:11 AM Eastern

Conifex Timber Inc is a Canada based forestry company. It operates through two segments: Lumber and Bioenergy. The main activities of the lumbar segment include timber harvesting, reforestation, forest management, sawmilling logs into lumber and wood chips, and value-added lumber finishing. The firm's primary activities of the bioenergy segment are the generation of electrical power and the development of other opportunities in bioenergy and bioproducts which are complementary to the company's harvesting and manufacturing operations. The firm's main activities areas are the United States, Chinese, Canadian and Japanese markets. Most of the revenues are generated from the lumber in the United States of America.

The GDL Fund NYSE:GDL

$8.32 +0.02 (+0.18%)

Closing price 10/27/2026 03:57 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$8.32 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 10/27/2026 07:30 PM Eastern

The GDL Fund is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by GAMCO Investors, Inc. It is managed by Gabelli Funds, LLC. The fund invests in public equity markets across the globe. It invests in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund invests in securities of companies involved in publicly announced mergers, takeovers, tender offers, and leveraged buyouts. It also invests in companies undergoing corporate reorganizations involving stubs, spin-offs, and liquidations. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against Bank of America Merrill Lynch 3 Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index. It was formerly known as Gabelli Global Deal Fund. The GDL Fund was formed on October 17, 2006 and is domiciled in the United States.

Western Forest Products TSE:WEF

C$16.09 +0.17 (+1.07%)

As of 10/27/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Western is an integrated forest products company building a margin-focused log and lumber business to compete successfully in global softwood markets. With operations and employees located primarily on the coast of British Columbia and Washington State, Western is a premier supplier of high-value, specialty forest products to worldwide markets. Western has a lumber capacity of 785 million board feet from five sawmills, as well as operates four remanufacturing facilities and two glulam manufacturing facilities. The Company sources timber from its long-term licences, First Nations arrangements, and market purchases. Western supplements its production through a wholesale program providing customers with a comprehensive range of specialty products.

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