Best forestry stocks by NexusTrade rating

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Best means the highest stored NexusTrade report ratings within this selection. Ratings use the product's 1-to-5 scale. The list sorts by rating from high to low, with ticker order breaking equal-rating ties. A rating summarizes a report; it does not predict a stock's return.

Companies belong to the Forestry classification, based on company products and revenue. Classifications can overlap, so a company may appear in several industry lists.

What the leading companies do

The first 5 companies below lead the ratings in this snapshot; equal ratings are ordered by ticker. Their company profiles describe different businesses even when they share the Forestry selection.

These are company descriptions, not estimates of revenue from this theme. Industry membership does not identify a pure-play business or establish how much sales depend on it. Open the company profile and examine segment disclosures before treating an overlapping classification as equivalent exposure.

1. Alamo Group, Inc. (ALG): 3.5 / 5

   Alamo Group Inc. designs, manufactures, and services vegetation management and infrastructure maintenance equipment for governmental, industrial, and agricultural uses worldwide. It operates through two segments, Vegetation Management and Industrial Equipment. The company offers rotary, finishing, flail, disc mowers, remote control, industrial grass, commercial and high end residential zero turn, mechanical boom, quick-attach boom, off-road chassis mounted, and reach mowers; rock removal, landscape and vegetation maintenance equipment, agricultural equipment, street sweepers, solid waste and recycling, and commercial tree care and forestry attachments equipment; and boom-mounted hedge and grass, hedgerow, agricultural seedbed preparation cultivators, rotary, and brush cutters. It also provides front-end loaders, backhoes, rotary tillers, posthole diggers, scraper blades, snow blowers, hydraulic, tractor attachments, cutting blades, tree chippers, stump grinders, mulchers, flails and debarkers, tractor- and truck-mounted mowing, and sugar cane trailers; and engineered underground construction forms. In addition, the company offers hydraulic telescoping booms, catch basin cleaners, roadway debris vacuum systems, sewer cleaners, hydro excavators, truck chassis, vacuum trucks, cleaning systems and trenchers, truck mounted, snow plows and blowers, dump bodies and spreaders, snow throwers, brooms, deicers, brine sprayers, wing systems, spreader bodies, hitches and attachments, loaders and graders, salt spreaders and truck bodies, municipal tractors and attachments, asphalt maintenance patchers, truck-mounted air vacuum, mechanical and replacement brooms, regenerative air sweepers, leaf and debris collection equipment, parking lot sweepers, truck mounted highway crash attenuator trucks, and cone safety and traffic control trucks. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Seguin, Texas.

2. CKX Lands, Inc. (CKX): 3 / 5

   CKX Lands, Inc. engages in the ownership and management of land in the United States. It operates through three segments: Oil and Gas, Surface, and Timber. It leases its properties for minerals, such as oil and gas; raises and harvests timber; and uses surface comprising agriculture, right of ways, and hunting. The company was formerly known as Calcasieu Real Estate & Oil Co. Inc. and changed its name to CKX Lands, Inc. in May 2005. CKX Lands, Inc. was incorporated in 1930 and is based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

3. St. Joe Company (JOE): 3 / 5

   The St. Joe Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a real estate development, asset management, and operating company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Residential, Hospitality, and Commercial. The Residential segment engages in the development of communities into homesites for sale to homebuilders and on a limited basis to retail customers. This segment primarily sells developed homesites, completed homes, parcels of entitled or undeveloped land or homesites, and a homesite residual on homebuilder, as well as offers title insurance and marketing services. Its Hospitality segment owns and operates a private membership club, golf courses, beach clubs, retail outlets, marinas, and other entertainment assets. This segment also engages in the hotel, food and beverage, and gulf-front vacation rental operations, as well as provides management services. The Commercial segment engages in leasing of commercial property, multi-family, a senior living community, and other assets. This segment also involved in the planning, development, entitlement, management, and sale of commercial and rural land holdings for retail, office, hotel, senior living, multi-family, self-storage, and industrial uses; and grows and sells pulpwood, sawtimber, and other forest products. The St. Joe Company was incorporated in 1936 and is based in Panama City Beach, Florida.

4. Rayonier Inc. (RYN): 3 / 5

   Rayonier is a leading timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in some of the most productive softwood timber growing regions in the United States. As of June 30, 2025, Rayonier owned or leased under long-term agreements approximately 2.0 million acres of timberlands located in the U.S. South (1.74 million acres) and U.S. Pacific Northwest (307,000 acres).

5. Greif, Inc. (GEF): 2.5 / 5

   Greif, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells industrial packaging products and services worldwide. It operates in four segments: Customized Polymer Solutions; Durable Metal Solutions; Sustainable Fiber Solutions; and Integrated Solutions. The Customized Polymer Solutions segment produces and sells polymer-based packaging products, such as plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers, and small plastics for chemicals, food and beverage, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and mineral products industries. The Durable Metal Solutions segment offers metal-based packaging products, including various steel drums for the chemicals, petroleum, agriculture, and paints and coatings industries. The Sustainable Fiber Solutions segment provides fiber-based packaging products comprising fibre drums, uncoated recycled board, coated recycled board, tubes and cores, and specialty partitions made from uncoated recycled board and coated recycled board to packaging, automotive, construction, food and beverage, and building products industries. The Integrated Solutions segment offers complimentary packaging products, such as paints, linings, and closure systems for industrial packaging products and related services. The company manufactures and sells rigid industrial packaging products, such as steel, fibre and plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers, jerrycans and other small plastics, closure systems for industrial packaging products, water bottles, and remanufactured and reconditioned industrial containers, as well as offers container life cycle management, logistics, warehousing, and other packaging services. It also purchases and sells recycled fiber; and produces and sells adhesives. The company was formerly known as Greif Bros. Corporation and changed its name to Greif, Inc. in 2001. Greif, Inc. was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in Delaware, Ohio.

Valuation and company size within this selection

These summaries use the 15 displayed companies. Each company retains its own market observation date in the ratings table above. Medians are unweighted; they are not a sector index valuation.

Positive P/E and price-to-book values are summarized separately. Missing, zero and negative values are excluded from those medians, with the included count shown. A lower multiple alone does not establish better value: profitability, growth, debt and business mix can differ.

Other business classifications in the list

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Dates and coverage

Report dates range from 2025-12-31 to 2025-12-31. Market observations range from 2026-11-06 to 2026-11-06. These dates may differ across companies. Daily closes are not synchronized live quotes.

The selection includes 0 companies without a report, 0 with invalid latest rating metadata, 0 with older reports, 2 with missing required fundamentals and 0 with out-of-date market observations. Missing companies receive no substitute score.

How the ranking is built

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