The Est. EPS Q/Q of West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. is -2,581.25%
Prospective quarterly EPS growth rate, year over year, is the estimated increase of the company’s EPS for the current quarter compared to performance from a past corresponding quarter.
= current quarter yoy (year over year)
The prospective EPS growth rate is a predicted estimate of the earnings per share growth rate towards the current quarter and expressed as a percentage compared to the respective past quarter. The estimated earnings per share growth rate is an important factor for judging a company's value. Comparing EPS history with stock price history helps determine the most likely future direction of the stock price.
Earnings per share is the monetary value of earnings per outstanding share of common stock for a company. The EPS is usually calculated as profit without preferred dividends divided by weighted average of common stock shares over the past twelve months.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., a diversified wood products company, produces and sells lumber, panels, and pulp and papers in western Canada and the southern United States. It offers spruce-pine-fir, Douglas Fir-Larch, Hem-Fir tree, and southern yellow pine lumber; treated wood products; and newsprint, wood chips, and other residuals and energy products. The company also provides medium density fiberboard panels and plywood; laminated veneer lumber wood products; and northern bleached softwood Kraft pulp used to produce various paper products, including printing and writing papers, specialty grades, and various tissue products. In addition, it offers bleached chemical thermo-mechanical pulp that is used to produce coated board grades, printing and writing paper, and paper towel/napkin grades, as well as specialty papers and tissue grades. The company exports lumber to the Far East, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. was founded in 1955 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.