Desjardins Has Pessimistic View of Stella-Jones Q2 Earnings

Stella-Jones Inc. (TSE:SJ - Free Report) - Desjardins decreased their Q2 2025 earnings per share estimates for shares of Stella-Jones in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, May 7th. Desjardins analyst B. Poirier now expects that the company will earn $1.84 per share for the quarter, down from their prior estimate of $1.90. Desjardins has a "Buy" rating and a $94.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for Stella-Jones' current full-year earnings is $6.45 per share. Desjardins also issued estimates for Stella-Jones' Q3 2025 earnings at $1.58 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $0.97 EPS and FY2026 earnings at $6.02 EPS.

SJ has been the topic of several other research reports. Royal Bank of Canada lifted their price target on Stella-Jones from C$75.00 to C$76.00 and gave the stock a "sector perform" rating in a report on Thursday. Scotiabank reduced their price target on Stella-Jones from C$85.00 to C$79.00 in a report on Monday, March 3rd. CIBC cut their price target on shares of Stella-Jones from C$86.00 to C$79.00 and set an "outperform" rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, April 22nd. Cibc World Mkts raised Stella-Jones from a "hold" rating to a "strong-buy" rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 14th. Finally, TD Securities upped their price target on Stella-Jones from C$88.00 to C$90.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research note on Friday. One analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, four have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average price target of C$86.17.

Stella-Jones Price Performance

SJ stock traded up C$1.11 during midday trading on Friday, reaching C$73.62. The stock had a trading volume of 76,875 shares, compared to its average volume of 134,071. Stella-Jones has a 52-week low of C$62.26 and a 52-week high of C$98.00. The company has a market cap of C$4.12 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.86, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.40 and a beta of 0.64. The company's fifty day simple moving average is C$67.25 and its 200 day simple moving average is C$70.54. 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 Increases Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 18th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 1st were issued a $0.31 dividend. This represents a $1.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.68%. This is an increase from Stella-Jones's previous quarterly dividend of $0.28. Stella-Jones's payout ratio is currently 19.56%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Stella-Jones

In other Stella-Jones news, Director James Augustus Manzi sold 1,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Friday, April 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of C$65.79, for a total transaction of C$65,788.60. 0.14% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.