GFP vs. WEF, GDL, CFF, EVA, WFG, SJ, CFP, IFP, PL, and ADN
Should you be buying GreenFirst Forest Products stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GreenFirst Forest Products include Western Forest Products (WEF), Goodfellow (GDL), Conifex Timber (CFF), Enviva (EVA), West Fraser Timber (WFG), Stella-Jones (SJ), Canfor (CFP), Interfor (IFP), Pinnacle Renewable Energy (PL), and Acadian Timber (ADN). These companies are all part of the "lumber & wood production" industry.
GreenFirst Forest Products vs. Its Competitors
GreenFirst Forest Products (TSE:GFP) and Western Forest Products (TSE:WEF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, GreenFirst Forest Products and GreenFirst Forest Products both had 1 articles in the media. GreenFirst Forest Products' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Western Forest Products'average media sentiment score.
Western Forest Products has a consensus price target of C$0.46, suggesting a potential upside of 14.20%. Given Western Forest Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Western Forest Products is more favorable than GreenFirst Forest Products.
GreenFirst Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.8%. Western Forest Products pays an annual dividend of C$0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. GreenFirst Forest Products pays out -35.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Western Forest Products pays out -36.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
44.8% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of Western Forest Products shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.0% of GreenFirst Forest Products shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Western Forest Products shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Western Forest Products has higher revenue and earnings than GreenFirst Forest Products. Western Forest Products is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GreenFirst Forest Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GreenFirst Forest Products has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Forest Products has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Western Forest Products has a net margin of -4.21% compared to GreenFirst Forest Products' net margin of -10.79%. Western Forest Products' return on equity of -7.69% beat GreenFirst Forest Products' return on equity.
Summary
Western Forest Products beats GreenFirst Forest Products on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GFP and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (TSE:GFP) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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