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December 2015 included multiple global confabs and ripples in the space-time continuum. In Los Angeles, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opened. The movie had a record opening weekend, bringing in $248 million in North America alone. In Paris, a United more…
The timber REIT sector tumbled in 2015. The Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index fell -9.3% for the year, while the S&P 500 essentially flatlined at -0.7% over the same period. Of the five public timber REIT equities – CatchMark Timber more…
If the proposed merger of the two largest public timber REITs, Plum Creek (PCL) and Weyerhaeuser (WY), does anything, it reminds us of the relative insignificance of timber firms to the REIT sector generally and the stock market overall. Currently, more…
This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s Q4 2015 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. Through Q3 2015, all five public timber REITs traded at prices below where they started the year more…
This is the third in a series related to timberland investments. Previous posts addressed benchmarking private timberland investments and the valuation of timber REITs. How have private timberland investments performed relative to other asset classes? This question opens the door more…
This is the second in a series related to timberland investments. The first addressed benchmarking private timberland investments. Real estate investment trusts (REITs) own and manage income producing real estate such as buildings, warehouses, rental properties, and, since 1999, timberlands. more…
This is the fourth in a series related to Forisk’s Q2 2015 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. In the United States, “industrial” timberlands, or privately owned acres managed to maximize wood volume and cash more…
This post includes excerpts from the Q1 2015 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) chapter on timberland investment vehicles and ownership. Institutional investors looking to add timberlands to their portfolios and timber REITs looking to grow their asset base both face the more…
This post includes excerpts from Forisk’s timberland investment research and Brooks Mendell’s September 2014 presentation at the “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference in Portland, Oregon. The complete presentation is available here. During the ten-year period from January 2004 through more…
This is the sixth in a series related to the analysis of timber markets and wood baskets. Forest supplies, wood demand and timber prices cycle. However, these three rarely “get the memo” and synchronize in a timely, convenient fashion. (The more…