NYSE:OSBNorbord Stock Price, Forecast & News

Norbord's stock was trading at $19.03 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, OSB stock has increased by 71.3% and is now trading at $32.60.
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7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Norbord in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Norbord is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 29th 2020.
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Norbord Inc (NYSE:OSB) released its earnings results on Wednesday, August, 5th. The construction company reported $0.38 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.10 by $0.28. The construction company earned $421 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $410.76 million. Norbord had a net margin of 0.53% and a return on equity of 4.64%. Norbord's quarterly revenue was down 5.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted ($0.10) earnings per share.
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Norbord declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 6th. Investors of record on Tuesday, September 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.2251 per share on Monday, September 21st. This represents a $0.90 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.76%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, August 31st. This is an increase from Norbord's previous quarterly dividend of $0.04.
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7 brokers have issued 1 year price targets for Norbord's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $51.00. On average, they expect Norbord's share price to reach $44.58 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 36.8% from the stock's current price.
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News headlines about OSB stock have trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Norbord earned a news sentiment score of -2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the construction company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.
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Norbord saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,250,000 shares, an increase of 15.7% from the July 15th total of 1,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 262,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.8 days. Approximately 1.6% of the company's shares are sold short.
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Norbord trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "OSB."

Norbord's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Letko Brosseau & Associates Inc. (5.84%), Intact Investment Management Inc. (0.34%), Swiss National Bank (0.14%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.13%), Virtus ETF Advisers LLC (0.10%) and K.J. Harrison & Partners Inc (0.05%).

OSB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Letko Brosseau & Associates Inc., Intact Investment Management Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., and UBS Group AG.

OSB stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., K.J. Harrison & Partners Inc, Trexquant Investment LP, Virtus ETF Advisers LLC, Swiss National Bank, Institute for Wealth Management LLC., Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , and CIBC Asset Management Inc.

Shares of OSB can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of OSB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $32.60.

Norbord has a market capitalization of $2.66 billion and generates $1.73 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $-42,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.37) on an earnings per share basis. Norbord employs 2,400 workers across the globe.

The official website for Norbord is www.norbord.com.

Norbord's mailing address is 1 TORONTO STREET SUITE 600, TORONTO A6, M5C2W4. The construction company can be reached via phone at 416-365-0705.