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Weyerhaeuser Co Price

WY
$23,99
-$0,21(-%0,86)

*Data last updated: 2026-04-07 18:24 (UTC+8)

As of 2026-04-07 18:24, Weyerhaeuser Co (WY) is priced at $23,99, with a total market cap of $17,26B, a P/E ratio of 52,73, and a dividend yield of %3,50. Today, the stock price fluctuated between $23,81 and $24,08. The current price is %0,75 above the day's low and %0,37 below the day's high, with a trading volume of 309,66K. Over the past 52 weeks, WY has traded between $23,81 to $24,47, and the current price is -%1,96 away from the 52-week high.

WY Key Stats

Yesterday's Close$24,20
Market Cap$17,26B
Volume309,66K
P/E Ratio52,73
Dividend Yield (TTM)%3,50
Dividend Amount$0,21
Diluted EPS (TTM)0,44
Net Income (FY)$324,00M
Revenue (FY)$6,90B
Earnings Date2026-04-30
EPS Estimate0,03
Revenue Estimate$1,71B
Shares Outstanding713,56M
Beta (1Y)0.998
Ex-Dividend Date2026-03-10
Dividend Payment Date2026-03-20

About WY

Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, began operations in 1900. We own or control approximately 11 million acres of timberlands in the U.S. and manage additional timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. We manage these timberlands on a sustainable basis in compliance with internationally recognized forestry standards. We are also one of the largest manufacturers of wood products in North America. Our company is a real estate investment trust. In 2020, we generated $7.5 billion in net sales and employed approximately 9,400 people who serve customers worldwide. We are listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index. Our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WY.
SectorReal Estate
IndustryREIT - Specialty
CEODevin W. Stockfish
HeadquartersSeattle,WA,US
Official Websitehttps://www.weyerhaeuser.com
Employees (FY)9,51K
Average Revenue (1Y)$725,54K
Net Income per Employee$34,04K

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#BitcoinMiningIndustryUpdates #Gate广场四月发帖挑战 The Great Restructuring: How Bitcoin Mining Became a Survival Business in 2026 The Bitcoin mining industry that existed at the start of 2025 — flush with post-halving anticipation, riding an all-time high in network hashrate, and buoyed by a Bitcoin price that had touched $124,500 in early October — is not the industry that exists today. What replaced it is leaner, more desperate, more politically entangled, and in several cases no longer a mining business at all. The story of Bitcoin mining in early 2026 is not a story of growth. It is a story of who can afford to stay in the room, and who quietly slipped out through the side door marked "AI Infrastructure." --- **The Hashprice Collapse That CoinShares Called the Worst Since the Halving** CoinShares, in its Q4 2025 mining report released in late March 2026, delivered a verdict that needed no softening: Q4 2025 was the most challenging quarter for Bitcoin miners since the April 2024 halving. The numbers explain why. Bitcoin had peaked at approximately $124,500 in early October 2025, then shed roughly 31% to close out the year near $86,000. That price drawdown alone would have been painful. Layered on top of it was a network hashrate sitting near all-time highs — meaning that more machines were competing for a smaller reward pool at a lower price. The result was a hashprice compression that drove the metric to its lowest level in five years. Hashprice — the amount a miner earns per unit of hashrate per day — had peaked around $63 per petahash per second per day in July 2025, then fell continuously through Q4 as price dropped and difficulty remained elevated. By March 2026, with Bitcoin trading around $69,200, Checkonchain's difficulty regression model pegged the average production cost across the network at $88,000 per coin. The gap between cost and revenue was nearly $19,000 on every block mined — a 21% structural loss for the average operator. When you are mining at a loss, you are not running a business. You are liquidating your infrastructure one block at a time. --- **The Difficulty Drop: A 7.7% Adjustment That Confirmed the Exodus** In March 2026, Bitcoin's network difficulty recorded one of its sharpest downward adjustments of the year — a 7.7% decline following a period in which average block times had stretched to approximately 12 minutes and 36 seconds, well above the 10-minute target. In Bitcoin's automatic adjustment mechanism, slower block times mean fewer active miners. Fewer active miners means the network reduces difficulty to restore the intended cadence. That 7.7% drop is not a technical event. It is a confirmation that a meaningful share of the mining fleet went offline — either powered down, repurposed, or sold off. The machines that exit during a difficulty compression are almost always the least efficient ones: older-generation ASICs consuming 25-30 joules per terahash that cannot come close to breaking even when hashprice is this low. Their departure does not solve the industry's structural problem, but it temporarily relieves pressure on those that remain. The floor is being cleared. The question is whether the ceiling rises before the clearing process becomes permanent for the companies now attempting the transition. --- **MARA: $1.1 Billion in Bitcoin Sold, 15% of Staff Gone, AI Is the New Plan** The most significant corporate restructuring in the mining space came from MARA Holdings, formerly Marathon Digital Holdings and one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners in the United States. Between March 4 and March 25, 2026, MARA sold 15,133 Bitcoin for approximately $1.1 billion. The proceeds were used to retire convertible debt — bringing the company's total debt load from roughly $3.3 billion down to approximately $2.3 billion, a reduction of 30%. The $88.1 million in cash flow savings projected from the debt reduction was notable. The layoffs that followed were harder to dress up. In early April 2026, MARA cut approximately 15% of its workforce across multiple departments in a restructuring that Bitcoin Magazine described as affecting the company broadly and simultaneously. The context for these moves is a net loss of approximately $1.3 billion reported for full-year 2025, driven by the post-halving margin compression. MARA has explicitly positioned itself as a "digital energy and compute provider" rather than a pure-play Bitcoin miner, pivoting toward AI and high-performance computing infrastructure with the stated intention of selling Bitcoin from its treasury "from time to time" throughout 2026 to fund the transition. The company that once measured its success by terahashes and block rewards is now measuring it by data center capacity and AI compute contracts. --- **Bitfarms Exits Completely: Rebranding to Keel Infrastructure** If MARA's pivot was dramatic, Bitfarms' exit from the Bitcoin business was total. The Canadian mining company announced in late March 2026 that it is targeting zero Bitcoin on its balance sheet as it pivots entirely toward AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. Bitfarms, which reportedly still held 1,827 BTC at the time of the announcement, confirmed it has begun selling its holdings and plans to continue doing so "opportunistically into strength." The company is rebranding entirely — to Keel Infrastructure — and is building out a 2.2 gigawatt AI and HPC data center pipeline alongside a re-domiciliation to the United States. The phrase "maximize free cash flow before selling the miners" captures the approach precisely: keep the existing mining rigs running for as long as they generate positive cash flow, then liquidate them. The wind-down is gradual by design. What is not gradual is the ideological departure. Bitfarms was a Bitcoin miner. Keel Infrastructure is an AI data center company that used to mine Bitcoin. That distinction is not semantic — it represents a complete reallocation of capital thesis, from proof-of-work energy consumption as a value creation mechanism to GPU compute as a value creation mechanism. --- **Riot Platforms: 3,778 BTC Sold in Q1, Mining More Than It Kept** Riot Platforms, which has historically been among the most committed "HODL" miners in the industry — refusing to sell produced Bitcoin in order to build a treasury reserve — broke from that posture in Q1 2026. The company sold 3,778 BTC over the quarter, generating approximately $290 million in revenue at an average price of $76,626 per coin. Over the same period, Riot mined only 1,473 BTC — meaning it sold more than 2.5 times what it produced, drawing down its balance sheet reserves to cover operational costs. Total BTC holdings dropped to 15,680 coins at quarter's end. The sale was framed as a response to operational cash flow needs driven by high energy costs and equipment investment requirements, but the market read it correctly: when a company that has spent years positioning its BTC treasury as a core strategic asset starts selling faster than it mines, the economics have forced a change in philosophy. Riot's Q1 figures are not capitulation in the technical on-chain sense — the company is not shutting down. 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The Mined in America Act proposes to phase out mining rigs from "foreign adversary"-linked manufacturers in certified US mining facilities, direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership to help US manufacturers develop domestically produced, secure, and energy-efficient mining hardware, and codify President Trump's executive order establishing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve — with a preference for US-mined Bitcoin flowing into the reserve. The bill intersects with the broader April 2 tariff announcement in a particularly sharp way. If the proposed 125% tariff on Chinese-origin goods is fully applied to mining hardware, a machine that currently costs approximately $6,000 could exceed $14,000 — a cost increase that makes the economics of replacing aging fleet hardware essentially impossible for any operator not sitting on a multiyear supply agreement or a domestic hardware partnership. The Mined in America Act is, in one reading, the legislative solution to the tariff problem it cannot actually solve in the near term, because domestic ASIC manufacturing infrastructure does not currently exist at the scale needed to replace Chinese supply. --- **The Solo Miner Anomaly: $210,000 From 230 Terahashes** Against a backdrop of corporate distress, layoffs, and forced BTC liquidations, a quiet moment of mathematical improbability arrived on April 6, 2026. A solo miner using approximately 230 terahashes of hashrate — a setup worth perhaps $10,000 in modern hardware — solved block number 943,411 on the Bitcoin network and collected approximately 3.139 BTC in rewards, worth around $210,000. The miner operated through Solo CK Pool, which charges a 2% fee and directs 100% of the block reward to whoever finds the block. The probability of a 230 TH/s miner finding a block on a network running hundreds of exahashes per second is roughly equivalent to winning a significant lottery. 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#BitcoinMiningIndustryUpdates #BitcoinMiningIndustryUpdates The first quarter of 2026 has marked one of the most challenging and transformative periods in Bitcoin mining history. With BTC prices dropping 23.8% from $87,508 to ~$66,619 by early April — the worst Q1 performance since 2018 — the industry is undergoing what many are calling a "Great Reset." This comprehensive breakdown covers the market meltdown, miner sell-offs, the AI pivot, regulation, hardware, and what lies ahead. 📉 1. Market Meltdown: The Profitability Crisis The core narrative of early 2026 is one of severe financial distress. Hashprice — the daily revenue per petahash of computing power — dropped to an all-time post-halving low of approximately $28–30 per PH/s/day in early March, down from $36–38 in Q4 2025. This represents the lowest profitability level in five years. The numbers tell a brutal story: · Weighted average cash cost to mine one Bitcoin among public miners: ~$79,995 in Q4 2025 · Bitcoin trading at $66,000–70,000: estimated losses of ~$19,000 per BTC mined · Approximately 15–20% of the global mining fleet is currently operating at a loss · Miners running mid-generation hardware need electricity below $0.05/kWh to remain cash-profitable · Current hashprice stands at ~$33/PH/s/day The weighted average cash cost to produce one bitcoin has risen significantly, driven by the combination of escalating operational expenses — particularly energy costs heightened by geopolitical tensions — and the fixed block reward of 3.125 BTC following the April 2024 halving. 💰 2. Miner Meltdown: Strategic Sell-offs Facing unsustainable margins, public miners have turned from long-term holders into active sellers. The liquidation spree is reshaping balance sheets across the sector: · Riot Platforms sold 3,778 BTC in Q1 2026, generating $289.5 million at an average realized price of ~$76,626 per coin. The firm's Bitcoin reserves dropped 18% to 15,680 BTC by quarter-end. · MARA Holdings, Genius Group, and Nakamoto Holdings jointly sold 15,501 BTC, with the bulk coming from MARA. · Core Scientific sold ~1,900 BTC ($175 million) in January and announced plans to liquidate nearly all remaining holdings in Q1 2026. · Bitdeer completely zeroed out its BTC reserves in February. · Empery Digital offloaded 370 BTC for $24.7 million at a mean price of $66,632. Industry experts attribute these sell-offs primarily to rising energy costs. Kadan Stadelmann, co-founder of Compance, noted that the Middle East conflict has triggered an oil price shock, forcing miners to liquidate holdings to cover operational expenses. 🤖 3. The AI Pivot: Reshaping the Industry's DNA Perhaps the most transformative development is the wholesale pivot toward Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. This isn't a minor diversification — it's a fundamental restructuring of what these companies actually are. The scale of the shift is staggering: Publicly listed miners have announced over $70 billion in cumulative AI and HPC contracts. By the end of 2026, some miners could derive up to 70% of their revenue from AI, up from roughly 30% today. Major deals reshaping the landscape: #BitcoinMiningIndustryUpdates · CoreWeave & Core Scientific: Expanded 12-year agreement worth $10.2 billion · TeraWulf: $12.8 billion in contracted HPC revenue · Hut 8: $7 billion, 15-year AI infrastructure lease at its River Bend campus · Cipher Digital: Multi-billion-dollar agreement with Google-backed Fluidstack Current AI revenue breakdown among leaders: · Core Scientific: 39% of total revenue from AI colocation · TeraWulf: 27% · IREN: 9% (with up to 200 MW of liquid-cooled GPU capacity under construction) The economics explain why: · Bitcoin mining infrastructure: ~$700,000 to $1 million per megawatt · AI infrastructure: $8 million to $15 million per megawatt — but offering structurally higher and more stable returns · AI contracts can promise 85%+ margins with multi-year revenue visibility This strategic pivot is being financed through two primary channels: heavy debt issuance (IREN alone carries $3.7 billion in convertible notes) and aggressive BTC liquidations. Some analysts warn that this shift is pressuring network security as hashrate declines, leaving the industry's future dependent on whether Bitcoin's price can recover to around $100,000. 🏛️ 4. U.S. Regulation: The Mined in America Act On March 30, 2026, Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced the "Mined in America Act" — landmark legislation aimed at reshaping the U.S. digital asset mining landscape. Key provisions of the bill: 1. Voluntary Certification Program: Directs the Department of Commerce to establish a "Mined in America" certification for crypto mining facilities and pools that meet security and sourcing standards 2. Hardware Supply Chain Security: Certified facilities must transition away from mining equipment manufactured by companies tied to foreign adversaries on a phased timeline 3. Domestic Manufacturing Support: Directs NIST and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership to help U.S. manufacturers develop secure and energy-efficient mining equipment 4. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: Codifies President Trump's Executive Order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve within the Department of the Treasury The bill addresses a stark imbalance: while the United States controls an estimated 38% of global Bitcoin hashrate, roughly 97% of specialized mining hardware is produced by Chinese firms (including Bitmain and MicroBT). Supporters argue this dependence poses both economic and national security risks, citing prior incidents of vulnerabilities discovered in imported mining rigs' firmware. The bill also positions Bitcoin mining as a tool for grid management, allowing certified operators to access existing federal programs for projects that absorb excess renewable energy, stabilize grid demand, or capture methane emissions. ⚙️ 5. Hardware & Innovation: Fighting for Efficiency As profitability pressures intensify, the hardware race continues: BGIN Blockchain successfully taped out its proprietary 4nm BT1 Bitcoin mining ASIC chip in March 2026, marking a major efficiency milestone. This advancement enables BGIN to compete on efficiency at a time when every joule matters. FutureBit launched the Apollo III in February 2026 — the first U.S.-engineered Bitcoin ASIC paired with a domestically built hardware system in a consumer desktop form factor. The device delivers up to 18 TH/s and integrates a full Bitcoin node, breaking the long-standing reliance on Chinese-made ASICs. 🔗 6. Network Resilience & Difficulty Adjustments Despite the turmoil, the Bitcoin network remains resilient: · Current hashrate: ~986–1,020 EH/s · The network experienced three consecutive negative difficulty adjustments between late 2025 and early 2026 — the first such trend since July 2022, indicating miner capitulation · Latest difficulty adjustment (April 3): +3.87% to 138.97T · CoinShares projects hashrate could reach ~1.8 zettahash by year-end 2026 · Emerging nations like Paraguay and Ethiopia continue to aggressively gain hashrate share 🔭 The Road Ahead: A Transformed Industry What we're witnessing in April 2026 isn't just a market correction — it's a structural transformation of an entire industry. The Bitcoin mining sector is bifurcating into two distinct groups: infrastructure providers (pivoting to AI/HPC) and pure-play miners. The pivot to AI represents a fundamental acknowledgment that the halving-induced economics of Bitcoin mining alone may no longer sustain publicly traded companies at current price levels. However, this transformation comes with risks: · Network security concerns: As miners redirect capital to AI, hashrate growth may slow, potentially impacting Bitcoin's security budget · Centralization risks: The high capital requirements of AI infrastructure may accelerate consolidation, leaving only the largest players standing · Price dependency: The industry's health remains tethered to Bitcoin's price trajectory — a sustained recovery above $100,000 could alleviate much of the current pressure On the positive side, the industry is reframing its energy use as a grid asset. The "Mined in America Act" explicitly recognizes Bitcoin mining's potential to support renewable energy integration and grid stabilization. --- The bottom line: Bitcoin mining in early 2026 is a tale of survival through transformation. The companies that successfully navigate this pivot to AI/HPC infrastructure while maintaining efficient Bitcoin operations will likely emerge as the dominant players in the next cycle. For pure-play miners, the road ahead depends entirely on Bitcoin's price recovery and continued access to low-cost energy. Stay tuned for further updates as this story continues to unfold. #BitcoinMiningIndustryUpdates: #BitcoinMiningIndustryUpdates
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