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In the show “Shark Tank”, a key lesson from watching entrepreneurs get grilled by Kevin O’Leary and company is the importance of knowing your numbers. The questions are always the same, so showing up unprepared is, frankly, inexcusable. What are more…
The United States has 5% of the world’s population and over 500 million acres of timberland. According to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.S. leads the world in producing “industrial roundwood”, consuming logs and manufacturing lumber. Globally, the more…
A successful timber market analysis answers two questions. One, what are the “facts on the ground” for this market or wood basket? This helps profile the market with respect to forest supplies and wood demand. The timber suppliers and wood-using more…
This post includes an excerpt from the bioenergy research authored by Andrew Copley and Amanda Lang published in the Q2 2017 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) Publication. U.S. wood bioenergy project announcements have slowed; any meaningful growth, if realized, will occur more…
This is the fourth in a series related to Forisk’s Q2 2017 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. From 2009 through 2016, U.S. housing starts increased 112%, a compound annual rate exceeding 11%. Over this more…
This is the third in a series related to Forisk’s Q2 2017 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. Forisk has been accumulating timberland transaction and ownership data for the past twelve years. The ownership data more…
This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s Q2 2017 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. This week, the U.S. imposed a 20% tariff on the imports of softwood lumber from Canada. Tariffs are more…
This is the first in a series related to Forisk’s Q2 2017 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States and Canada. In our work, we apply forward-looking scenarios to our understanding of the “facts on the more…
This post includes an excerpt from the bioenergy research authored by Andrew Copley and Amanda Lang to be published in the Q2 2017 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) Publication. U.S. pellet exports were flat from 2015 to 2016: ports exported 4.7 more…
Financial analysis depends on two basic concepts from utility theory. One, we prefer more money rather than less. Two, we prefer dollars today rather than dollars tomorrow. Not only do these principles hold for everyone from kindergarteners to investment bankers, more…