Plum Creek Timber Co. (PCL) Earnings Preview For Quarterly Earnings Release Date
Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. (NYSE:PCL) is expected to report last fiscal quarter's results after the closing bell on January 30, 2012. Let's review how Plum Creek Timber Co. has performed recently.
Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. is a publicly owned real estate investment trust (REIT). The trust owns and manages timberlands in the United States. The company was founded in 1989 and is based in Seattle, Washington. The Timber Company operates independently of Georgia-Pacific LLC as of December 16, 1997.
52 Week High: $44.28
52 Week Low: $33.02
Book Value: $8.05
Float Short: 7.83%
A beat of $0.39 per share, will top the estimated per share earnings. Analyst estimates range between $0.37 and $0.4 per share.
The current trailing twelve months P/E ratio is 31.5. The forward P/E ratio is 30.16.
Looking at the price movement over the last month, the stock has moved higher in price 7.70%, with a change from a year ago of -4.03%.
The stock has done well as compared to the overall market. When comparing to the S&P 500, the year to date difference is 3.95%.
Revenue year-over-year has decreased to $1.19 billion for 2010 vs. $1.29 billion for 2009. The bottom line has falling earnings year-over-year of $213.00 million for 2010 vs. $236.00 million for 2009.The company's earnings before interest and taxes are falling with an EBIT year-over-year of $297.00 million for 2010 vs. $299.00 million for 2009. Lower revenue along with a drop in earnings is often one of the last signs to get out of the way of a falling stock price.
Here is a look at the fiscal year revenue. 
The total short interest number of shares for PCL 
The number of days to cover short interest based on average daily trading volume for PCL 
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