Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. vs WEST FRASER TIMBER CO. LTD., two Forest Products stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where FBIN and WFG diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), FBIN reads +9.6% and WFG reads -1.1%; on operating margin, FBIN reads 6.0% and WFG reads -21.7%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's FBIN price has a different growth bar priced in than WFG (+9.6% implied for FBIN vs -1.1% for WFG); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What FBIN's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | FBIN | WFG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49.28 | $64.61 |
| Market cap | $5.9B | $5.1B |
| Sector | Forest Products | Forest Products |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +9.6% | -1.1% |
| P/E | 21.9 | — |
| P/B | 2.51 | 0.87 |
| P/S | 1.33 | 0.93 |
| EV/EBITDA | 16.7 | — |
| Revenue growth | -2.0% | -14.3% |
| Operating margin | 6.0% | -21.7% |
| Net margin | 6.1% | -17.1% |
| Return on equity | 11.5% | -16.0% |
| Return on assets | 4.2% | -12.3% |
| Return on invested capital | 6.8% | -16.0% |
| FCF yield | 5.7% | -6.2% |
| Dividend yield | 2.0% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.15 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 2.13 | 2.13 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.43 | 2.71 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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