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Sylvamo

SLVM
29
Paper, Lumber & Forest Products · Basic Materials
Winston Score
29
Winston is worried
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Sylvamo Corporation makes uncoated freesheet paper — the kind used in office printers, notebooks, and books. Its customers include businesses, schools, publishers, and office supply distributors across North and Latin America and Europe. The company was spun off from International Paper in 2021 and is one of the largest producers of this type of paper in the world.

Sylvamo earns money by selling paper in bulk to distributors and large commercial buyers, with pricing tied closely to commodity markets and raw material costs like wood pulp. It operates mills in the United States, Brazil, and Europe, giving it a geographically diverse production base that helps manage regional demand swings. The biggest risk the company faces is long-term structural decline in paper demand, as more workplaces and schools shift toward digital documents, which could steadily shrink the market it depends on.

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Quality

Gross Margin
11.1%
Thin — 11.1% gross margin
Operating Margin
0.4%
Thin — 0.4% operating margin
ROCE
0.2%
Weak — 0.2% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-11.0%
Shrinking sales (-11.0% YoY)
EPS YoY
-63.3%
Earnings shrinking (-63.3% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency
0/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
230%
Turns 230% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
0.3%
Thin free cash flow (0.3%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.95
Moderate — manageable debt (0.95)
Interest Cover
4.98x
Adequate interest coverage (5.0x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
14.7x
no trend
Attractive valuation — P/E 14.7

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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