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This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! The investable universe for institutional timberland in the U.S. is modest compared to markets for stocks, bonds, currencies, or real more…
Any way you slice it, 2020 was a slow year for large timberland transactions. Forisk’s tracking recorded approximately 1.6 million acres of completed large timberland transactions in 2020. Over the past decade, from 2010 through 2019, the median volume of more…
After yet another consolidating acquisition of southern sawmills, it seems like an opportune moment to review the changing profile of the softwood lumber industry in the U.S. South. At the end of 2008 – the early days of the housing more…
Forisk has tracked and accumulated timberland transaction and ownership data since 2006. The ownership data goes back 50 years and the transaction data goes back 20 years to 1996. This provides context when reviewing year-over-year trends. In the past twelve more…
On July 26, 2017, West Fraser announced an agreement to acquire Gilman Companies, a major producer of southern yellow pine lumber with six sawmills in South Georgia and North Florida comprising 700 million board feet (MMBF) of capacity. The acquisition more…
Rayonier’s (RYN) announced ten percent dividend increase reminded me of the well-traveled quote from investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on stocks and dividends: I believe non dividend stocks aren’t much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you more…
As of March 30th, publicly-traded timberland-owning REITs, as measured by the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index, returned 11.45% year-to-date. This culminated a month of coverage and articles that highlighted both Forisk’s equity research of timber REITs and the performance and more…
Just over two months into 2012, the public timber REIT sector pulled ahead of the S&P 500. According to the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index, timberland owning REITs returned 9.84% YTD relative to 9.01% for the S&P 500. Weyerhaeuser (WY) more…
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein once said, “the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” On the other hand, actor Wesley Snipes reportedly said, “taxes are only complicated if you pay them.” (Actually, that might have more…
In 2011, timberland-owning REITs, as a sector, outperformed the S&P 500. As measured by the Forisk Timber REIT (FTR) Index, publicly-traded timber REITs returned 5.69% versus 0.00% for the S&P (see tables). The FTR Total Returns Index, which accounts for more…