4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Plum Creek Timber

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 140,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, timberland operator Plum Creek Timber (NYSE: PCL) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Plum Creek's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Plum Creek facts

Headquarters (Founded)	Seattle (1989)
Market Cap	$5.29 billion
Industry	Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$1.5 billion
Management	CEO Rick Holley (since 1999) CFO David Lambert (since 2006)
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years)	14.8%
Cash/Debt	$351 million / $2.79 billion
Dividend Yield	5.2%
Competitors	Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY) Potlach
CAPS Members Bullish on PCL Also Bullish on	Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) General Electric (NYSE: GE)
CAPS Members Bearish on PCL Also Bearish on	Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG) Citigroup (NYSE: C)

Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's), Yahoo! Finance, and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 93.6% of the 630 members who have rated Plum Creek believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include RayRayP and CAPS All-Star sandvig, who is ranked in the top 0.5% of our community.

Less than two weeks ago, RayRayP strongly advised Fools to not knock wood:

Plum Creek is a strong diversified company. ... I have watched it grow in a good and bad economy. They own lots of timber, which grows every year. [M]oney may not grow on trees, but when trees grow their value increases. They are a large land holder. Real estate is a product that cannot be reproduced.

In an earlier pitch, sandvig shows he can see the forest for the trees:

Sooner or later, people will want new homes, and builders will build new homes. When that happens, they will need lumber. Until then, it is a great time to watch your trees grow and collect a nice dividend. It is an aspect of the construction materials industry where it is relatively inexpensive to sit on the sidelines until things get better.

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