Desjardins Has Lowered Expectations for Stella-Jones (TSE:SJ) Stock Price

Key Points

• Desjardins has lowered its price target for Stella-Jones (TSE:SJ) from C$94.00 to C$89.00, while maintaining a "buy" rating, indicating a potential upside of 14.91% from the previous close.
• Recent analyst activity shows mixed opinions; TD Securities raised their target to C$90.00, while CIBC cut theirs to C$79.00, reflecting varying outlooks on the stock's performance.
• Stella-Jones shares saw a 4.0% increase during mid-day trading, reaching C$77.45, with an average target price of C$84.50 reflecting a general consensus of a "buy" among the analysts.

Stella-Jones (TSE:SJ - Get Free Report) had its target price dropped by research analysts at Desjardins from C$94.00 to C$89.00 in a report issued on Friday,BayStreet.CA reports. The brokerage currently has a "buy" rating on the stock. Desjardins' price target indicates a potential upside of 16.55% from the stock's previous close. Desjardins also issued estimates for Stella-Jones' Q3 2025 earnings at $1.56 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $5.89 EPS.

Several other equities research analysts also recently issued reports on the stock. CIBC decreased their price objective on shares of Stella-Jones from C$86.00 to C$79.00 and set an "outperform" rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, April 22nd. Royal Bank Of Canada boosted their price objective on shares of Stella-Jones from C$76.00 to C$82.00 in a research note on Monday, July 14th. Finally, TD Securities boosted their price objective on shares of Stella-Jones from C$88.00 to C$90.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Friday, May 9th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of C$84.50.

Stella-Jones Trading Up 0.1%

SJ traded up C$0.08 during trading on Friday, hitting C$76.36. 29,338 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 119,716. The company has a current ratio of 6.85, a quick ratio of 1.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 87.53. Stella-Jones has a 1 year low of C$62.26 and a 1 year high of C$94.74. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of C$78.52 and a 200 day moving average price of C$72.63. The firm has a market cap of C$4.27 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.34, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.40 and a beta of 0.64.

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.